Harvest Queen from Morning Shift by Steep Canyon Rangers
Graham Sharp: Several years ago I was handed a CD of beautiful fiddle waltzes while we were on tour in Michigan. The title of the album was Harvest Queen and it caught my imagination. A year or two later we were on tour in Amarillo, Texas. I was walking around town that morning feeling pretty ragged and looking the same, I’m sure. I was standing around in a convenience store when a lady walked in looking a little rough herself. She smiled at me and said, “hello handsome,” so I smiled back and said, “hello beautiful.”
Tracklist
| 5. | Harvest Queen | 4:46 |
Lyrics
It's a day's walk on blacktop from here any way that you choose
Stand still for too long and the wind piles the dust on your shoes
If you call me handsome and I call you beautiful
If we keep saying those words it might just come true, who knows
So lay your hand in mine
And waltz me in the cradle of three-quarter time
Come wipe this dust bowl clean, Harvest Queen
We grew up never knowing we were children of the worst hard times
Where the wind held us down every time we thought we might fly
And the steel in your eyes is a little too familiar to me
Then I catch my reflection and I know what you wish we might be
So lay your hand in mine
And waltz me in the cradle of three-quarter time
Come wipe this dust bowl clean, Harvest Queen
I go between praying for rain and staying out of the wind
Am I such a fool as to trust all this dry dust again
I still dream of a horse in the stable and hay in the barn
Four chairs ‘round a table and a song and you in my arms
So lay your hand in mine
And waltz me in the cradle of three-quarter time
Come wipe this dust bowl clean
Come wipe this dust bowl clean
Harvest Queen
Credits
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Written by Mike Ashworth, Warren Givens and Graham Sharp
Mike Ashworth Music (ASCAP), Warren Givens (BMI), Enchanted Barn Publishing (ASCAP) administered by Seed Soup Songs (ASCAP)
Mike Guggino: mandolin, harmony vocals
Mike Ashworth: drums
Aaron Burdett: guitar, lead vocals
Nicky Sanders: fiddle
Barrett Smith: bass, harmony vocals
Graham Sharp: electric banjo
Darrell Scott: electric guitar
Produced by Darrell Scott
Engineered by Dave Sinko
Recorded at Inn Bat Cave - Bat Cave, NC
Mastered by Richard Dodd
License
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Steep Canyon Rangers have spent two decades bending and shaping bluegrass, wedding it to pop, country, folk rock, and more to create something original and all their own. The genre-defying band has developed a remarkable catalog of original music that links them to the past while at the same time, demonstrates their ambitious intent to bring string-based music into contemporary relevance.