Across The Great Divide - Lyrics - Nanci Griffith
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I've been walkin' in my sleep
Countin' troubles 'stead of countin' sheep.
Where the years went I can't say.
I just turned around and they've gone away.
I've been siftin' through the layers
Of dusty books and faded papers
That tell a story I used to know.
It was one that happened so long ago.
CHORUS 1:
It's gone away in yesterday,
Now I find myself on a moutainside
Where the rivers change direction
Across the Great Divide.
Well, I heard the owl callin'
Softly as the night was fallin'
With a question, and I replied,
But he's gone across the borderline.
CHORUS 2:
He's gone away in yesterday,
Now I find myself on a moutainside
Where the rivers change direction
Across the Great Divide.
The finest hour that I have seen
Is the one that comes between
The edge of night and the break of day.
It's when the darkness rolls away.
(Repeat first chorus x 2)
