artist: Nanci Griffith lyrics
title: Across The Great Divide
album: Other Voices / Other Rooms
(Kate Wolf)
I've been walkin' in my sleep
Countin' troubles 'stead of countin' sheep
Where the years went I can't say
I just turned around and they've gone away
I've been siftin' through the layers
Of dusty books and faded papers
They tell a story I used to know
And it was one that happened so long ago
[Chorus:]
It's gone away in yesterday
Now I find myself on the mountainside
Where the rivers change direction
Across the Great Divide
Now, I hear the owl a-callin'
Softly as the night was fallin'
With a question and I replied
But he's gone across the borderline
[Chorus]
The finest hour that I have seen
Is the one that comes between
The edge of night and the break of day
It's when the darkness rolls away
[Chorus 2x]