Tell Ol' Bill (Alternate Version, North Country Soundtrack)

歌词
The river whispers in my ear
I've hardly a penny to my name
The heavens never seemed so near
All of my body glows with flame
The tempest struggles in the air
And to myself alone I sing
It could sink me then and there
I can hear the echoes ring
I tried to find one smiling face
To drive the shadow from my head
I'm stranded in this nameless place
Lying restless in a heavy bed
Tell me straight out if you will
Why must you torture me within?
Why must you come from your high hill?
Throw my fate to the clouds and wind
Far away in a silent land
Secret thoughts are hard to bear
Remember me, you'll understand
Emotions we can never share
You trampled on me as you passed
Left the coldest kiss upon my brow
All of my doubts and fears have gone at last
I've nothing more to tell you now
I walk by tranquil lakes and streams
As each new season's dawn awaits
I lay awake at night with troubled dreams
The enemy is at the gates
Beneath the thunder blasted trees
The words are ringin' off your tongue
The ground is hard in times like these
The stars are cold, the night is young
The rocks are bleak, the trees are bare
Iron clouds go floating by
Snowflakes fallin' in my hair
Beneath the gray and stormy sky
The evenin' sun is sinkin' low
The woods are dark, the town is too
They'll drag you down, they'll run the show
Ain't no telling what they'll do
Tell ol' Bill when he comes home
That anything is worth a try
Tell him that I'm not alone
And that the hour has come to do or die
All the world I would defy
Let me make it plain as day
I look at you now and I sigh
How could it be any other way?
专辑信息
1.Mississippi (Outtake from "Time Out Of Mind" Sessions)
2.Most of the Time (Alternate Version, Oh Mercy)
3.Dignity (Piano Demo, Oh Mercy)
4.Red River Shore (Unreleased, Time Out Of Mind)
5.Someday Baby (Alternate Version, Modern Times)
6.Tell Ol' Bill (Alternate Version, North Country Soundtrack)
7.Born In Time (Outtake from 'Oh Mercy' sessions)
8.Can't Wait (Alternate Version from 'Time Out Of Mind' sessions)
9.Everything Is Broken (Alternate Version, Oh Mercy)
10.Dreamin' of You (Outtake from 'Time Out Of Mind' sessions)
11.Huck's Tune (from Lucky You Soundtrack)
12.Marchin' to the City (Outtake from 'Time Out Of Mind' sessions)
13.High Water (For Charley Patton) (Live at Oakes Garden Theatre, Niagara Falls, ON - August 2003)
14.Mississippi (Unreleased version #2, Time Out Of Mind)
15.32-20 Blues (Unreleased, World Gone Wrong)
16.Series of Dreams (Outtake from 'Oh Mercy' sessions)
17.God Knows (Outtake from 'Oh Mercy' sessions)
18.Can't Escape from You (Unreleased, December 2005)
19.Dignity (Unreleased, Oh Mercy)
20.Ring Them Bells (Live, The Supper Club, 1993)
21.******* Blues (Live, 1997)
22.Lonesome Day Blues (Live at National Car Rental Center, Sunrise, FL - February 2002)
23.Miss the Mississippi (Studio Outtake - 1992)
24.'Cross the Green Mountain (From Gods and Generals Soundtrack)
25.The Lonesome River (With Ralph Stanley)
26.The Girl On the Greenbriar Shore (Live at Cote d'Opale, Dunkerque, France - June 1992)
27.Ain't Talkin' (Alternate Version, Modern Times)
28.Love Sick (Live 2001)