The song Bang The Drum Slowly is performed by Emmylou Harris in the album named Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems in the year 2007 .
I meant to ask you how to fix that car
I always meant to ask you about the war
And what you saw across a bridge too far
Did it leave a scar
Or how you navigated wings of fire and steel
Up where heaven had no more secrets to conceal
And still you found the ground beneath your wheels
How did it feel
Bang the drum slowly, play the pipe lowly
To dust be returning from dust we begin
Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy
Above and below me world without end
I meant to ask you how when everything seemed lost
And your fate was in a game of dice they tossed
There was still that line that you would never cross
At any cost
I meant to ask you how you lived what you believed
With nothing but your heart up your sleeve
And if you ever really were deceived
By the likes of me
Bang the drum slowly, play the pipe lowly
To dust be returning from dust we begin
Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy
Above and below me world without end
Gone now is the day and gone the sun
There is peace tonight all over Arlington
But the songs of my life will still be sung
By the light of the moon you hung
I meant to ask you how to plow that field
I meant to bring you water from the well
And be the one beside you when you fell
Could you tell
Bang the drum slowly, play the pipe lowly
To dust be returning from dust we begin
Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy
Above and below me world without end
Emmylou Harris - Songbird: Rare Tracks and Forgotten Gems
- Clocks (alternate version)
- The Angels Rejoiced Last Night (Gram Parsons)
- The Old Country Baptizing (Gram Parsons & The Fallen Angels)
- Coats of Many Colors
- For No One
- Ooh Las Vegas
- Satan's Jewel Crown
- Tulsa Queen
- My Songbird
- Green Rolling Hills
- One Paper Kid with Willie Nelson
- Sorrow In The Wind
- Rough And Rocky
- Jordan
- Darkets Hour Is Just Before Dawn
- Ashes by Now
- How High The Moon
- Spanish Johnny with Waylon Jennings
- The Lst Cheaters Waltz
- Racing In The Streets
- Like An Old Fashioned Waltz
- The Sweethearts of the Rodeo with Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Vince Gill & Gail Davies
- When I Was Yours
- My Fathers House
- Bright Morning Stars
- When He Calls
- Lonely Street
- Brand New Dance
- Get Up John
- If I Could Be There
- Ballad Of A Runaway House
- Going Back To Harlan
- Sweet Old World
- All My Tears (Live)
- Prayer In Open D (Live)
- Bang The Drum Slowly
- Boy From Tupelo
- Lost Unto This World
- Man Is An Island
- Cup Of Kindness
- Falling In a Deep Hole
- 1917 (Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris)
- Palms of Victory (Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, & Emmylou Harris)
- Softy and Tenderly (Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris)
- My Dear Companion (Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstatt & Emmylou Harris)
- Mary Danced with Soldiers (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
- I Don't ove You Much Do I (Guy Clark)
- All I Left Behind
- I Remember You (Steve Earle)
- Golden Ring with Linda Ronstadt and Anna & Kate McGarrigle
- Sonny (Emmylou Harris, Dolores Keanes, Mary Black)
- In The Garden
- Love Still Remains
- Snake Song
- Hobo's Lullaby
- Wondering
- Immigrant Eyes
- Juanita (Sheryl Crow & Emmylow Harris)
- She (Pretenders & Emmylou Harris)
- Sin City (Beck & Emmylou Harris)
- Wheels (The Seldom Scene)
- Beyond The Blue (Emmylou Harris & Patty Griffin)
- First In Line (Emmylou Harris & John Starling)
- Highway of Heartache
- ALone And Forsaken (Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler)
- Child of Mine
- Heaven Ain't Ready For You Yet
- Wish We Were Back In Missouri
- Mama's Hungry Eyes with Rodney Crowell
- Here We Are (George Jones & Emmylou Harris)
- Waltz Across Texas Tonight
- Snowin' On Raton
- Gone
- Don't Let Our Love Die
- The Pearl (Live)
- Wildwood Flower (Randy Scruggs with Emmylou Harris & Iris DeMent)
- Love And Happiness (Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris)
- When We're Gone, Long Gone