Long Bed From Kenya - Joan Baez

Highway 40 roll on by

If I could reach across the distance for a moment

I’d steal the sadness from her eyes

It’s February and the weather’s clear for driving

How I’ve missed your Tennessee

The morning sun just stole the shadows from the mountains

And the years away from me

Yes I’ve changed and I knew that I was able

But you still look the same to me

And your eyes are just as blue across the table

As the sky in Tennessee

This old farm is ne’er so big as I remember

Now the fields are burned and brown

The Pigeon River’s running deeper than December

Where the Winter snows lay down

How you love your house and this long bed sent from Kenya

And the telling of the story of the woman you met there

She’s a darkhaired beauty — my hair’s only growing thinner

And my threads a little bare

Yes I’ve changed and I knew that I was able

But you still look the same to me

And your eyes are just as blue across the table

As the sky in Tennessee

In the silence hear the years, we dare not speak of

Let this arrow pass on through

And I’ll be gone before my heart has met resistance

Like you hoped that I would do

See the Redtail turn her wing toward the mountain

God there’s sunlight in your smile

If I could reach across the distance for a moment

I’d steal her memory from your eyes

Yes I’ve changed and I knew that I was able

But you still look the same to me

And your eyes are just as blue across the table

As the sky in Tennessee

As the sky in Tennessee