Goin' Back To Harlan Lyrics

The song Goin' Back To Harlan is performed by Emmylou Harris in the album named Wrecking Ball in the year 1995 .



(Anna McCarrigle)

There where no cuckoos, no sycamores
We played about the forest floor
Underneath the silver maples, the balsams and the sky
We popped the heads off dandelions
a*suming roles from nursery rhymes
Rested on the riverbank
And grew up by and by, and grew up by and by

Frail my heart apart
And play me a little shady grove
Ring the bells of rhymney
Till they ring inside my head forever
Bounce the bow, rock the gallows
For the hangman's reel
And wake the devil from his dream
I'm going back to Harlan
I'm going back to Harlan
I'm going back to Harlan

And if you were Willie Moore
And I was Barbara Allen
Or Fair Ellen all sad at the cabin door
A-weepin' and a-pinin', for love
A-weepin' and a-pinin', for love



Emmylou Harris - Wrecking Ball

Sep 1995

  1. Where Will I Be
  2. Goodbye
  3. All My Tears (Be Washed Away)
  4. Wrecking Ball
  5. Goin' Back To Harlan
  6. Deeper Well
  7. Every Grain Of Sand
  8. Sweet Old World
  9. May This Be Love
  10. Orphan Girl
  11. Blackhawk
  12. Waltz Across Texas Tonight

Goin' Back To Harlan