Townes Van Zandt 在美国乐坛被誉为 "a songwriter's songwriter"，很多音乐家认为他比Bob Dylan还伟大，BD也承认是他的粉丝。可是他在世时一生落魄，人到中年就穷困潦倒的死去了——大天才都是这样的吧：

Our Mother the Mountain

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My lover comes to me with a rose on her bosom
The moon's dancin' purple
All through her black hair
And a ladies-in-waiting she stands 'neath my window
And the sun will rise soon
On the false and the fair
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She tells me she comes from my mother the mountain
Her skin fits her tightly
And her lips do not lie
She silently slips from her throat a medallion
Slowly she twirls it
In front of my eyes
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I watch her, I love her, I long for to touch her
The satin she's wearin'
Is shimmering blue
Outside my window her ladies are sleeping
My dogs a gone hunting
The howling is through
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So I reach for her hand and her eyes turn to poison
And her hair turns to splinters,
And her flesh turns to brine
She leaps across the room, she stands in the window
And screams that my first-born
Will surely be blind
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Then she throws herself out to the black of the nightfall
She's parted her lips
But she makes not a sound
I fly down the stairway, and I run to the garden
No trace of my true love
Is there to be found
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So walk these hills lightly, and watch who you're lovin'
By mother the mountain
I swear that it's true
And love not a woman with hair black as midnight
And a dress made of satin
All shimmering blue
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Oh my lover comes to me with a rose on her bosom
The moon's dancing purple all through her black hair
And a lady's in waiting, she'll stand 'neath my window
And the sun will rise soon on the false and the fair 6park.com

Black Crow Blues

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Babe, don't lie lonesome after I'm gone
Don't mourn your young life away
Just lower me down with a prayer and a song
Just 'fore the breaking of day
Just 'fore the breaking of day 6park.com
It's a life with the living, but we all gotta die
All your crying can't do me no good
Lower me down with a quick said goodbye
Pour in the black Texas mud
Pour in the black Texas mud 6park.com
It's a hard road you're traveling, you can't walk it alone
Find a big man to stand beside you
Take him down to he river and show him my bones
Tell him there lies a friend I once knew
There lies a friend I once knew 6park.com
The black crow's a-screaming, the yellow sun's warm
The grass tumbles tall down the hill
There's a cold wind is building, it's bringin' a storm
When the call of the black crow goes still
When the call of the black crow goes still
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