A bird does not sing because she has an answer. She sings because she has a Song.

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A bird does not sing because she has an answer. She sings because she has a song. ~ Chinese proverb.

Song

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You learn a lot about people

when you listen to the songs that mean something to them.

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My songs have no words, only music that transports me to the heavens above.

Often from the depths below. Transcendence, I hope. Catherine Todd

Train To Birmingham ~ Kevin Welch

I know this page is for quotes, but this song is poetry. 
I would love this blog to be for favorite songs, poems & more.
Seems to me this is Welch's prayer of coming home.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PctiJNoAG9Y 

Kevin Welch with the Kevin Bennet band recorded in Australia preforming
the John Haitt song Train to Birmingham. Haitt never recorded this song.

Train To Birmingham

performed by Kevin Welch, songwriter John Hiatt 

Ridin' on this train
Drinkin' whiskey for my pain
'Nother good ol' boy goin' home

And every town I see
Wants to take a part of me
That's the price that you pay
When you roam

Chorus:
And I cry when I have to
And I lie when I can
Oh, but I die a little slower
On the train to Birmingham

I walk with holes in both my shoes
Got a guitar full of blues
One way ticket for my remedy

It's the same ol' lonesome song
I'm singin' all night long
Hey porter, are we out of Tennessee?

Repeat Chorus

Every year I take a train
To Alabama in the rain
I get that lonesome feelin' in my bones

You know, I never get to Birmingham
You know, gettin' there ain't the plan
I just like the feel of goin' home

Repeat Chorus

On the train to Birmingham


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