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Wandering Stream

from BORDER RADIO by Todd Hearon

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lyrics

WANDERING STREAM

The bars are closed in Bristol town tonight
The wires are down, the AM waves are quiet
And I been calling
On my old Epiphone
Rang a hundred times, you ain’t home
You’re out on the town
In some other scene
Wandering stream

Always out of touch and out of time
The ghost of A.P. Carter walks the line
In the moaning
Of some old lonesome train
He’ll bottle some and bring it home again
Out of the steam
Into a dream
Of the wandering stream

Well that old stream runs out and back again
From across the Rio Grande to Bangor, Maine
And tell me, have you ever heard your name
On the radio
It’ll make the bedsprings tingle out and ring
Wandering stream

And that old stream runs out and back again
From the Grand Old Opry out through the Great Plains
And tell me, have you ever heard your name
On the radio
That border radio
It’ll make the barbed wire tingle out and sing
Wandering stream

Hard to tell the question from the clue
What Sara might have thought, Maybelle knew
In the morning when they’d rise
And wipe the wings of Elvis from their eyes
And follow him down
Out of a dream
Wandering stream

Well that old Heartworn Highway has the sound
Of every Sunday morning sidewalk coming down
And every shooting star that hit the ground
And started to gleam
They’re all holding to the sunlight what they found
In the wandering stream

There’s Hank and Woody, Willie, Waylon too
Patsy, Doc and Townes and Emmylou
In the morning when we rise
And wash the halleluiahs from our eyes
And follow them down
Out of a dream
Wandering stream
They’ll bottle some and bring it home again
Wandering stream

credits

from BORDER RADIO, released August 20, 2021
Acoustic Guitar and Vocals: Todd Hearon
Pedal Steel: Dan Beller-McKenna
Harmonica: Stu Barer
Mandolin: Glenn “Scotty” Scott
Fiddle: Betsy Heron
Banjo: Scott Heron
Bass: Chris Caruso
Drums: Aaron Zaroulis

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Todd Hearon Exeter, New Hampshire

Born in Fort Worth, Texas, and raised in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, Todd Hearon is a poet, author and songwriter living in Exeter, New Hampshire. His two studio albums are YODELADY (2023) AND BORDER RADIO (2021); he's also the author of three volumes of poems, a number of plays and essays, and a novella.

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