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Jesse Winchester Yankee Lady written by Jesse Winchester
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I lived with the decent folks
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In the hills of old Vermont
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Where what you do all day
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Depends on what you want
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And I took up with a woman there
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Though I was still a kid
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And I smile like the sun
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To think of all the loving that we did
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She rose each morning and went off to work
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And she kept me with her pay
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I was making sweet love all night
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And playing this old guitar all day
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And I got apple cider and homemade bread
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That would make a man kneel down he would say grace
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And clean linens on our bed
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And a warm feet fire place
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Yankee lady so good to me
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Yankee lady just a memory
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Yankee lady so good to me
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Your memories gonna have to do for me
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An autumn walk on a old country road
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With a million flaming trees
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I was feeling a little uneasy
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Cause there was winter chill in the breeze
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And she said, "Oh Jesse, look over there,
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I see birds are they are all southward bound
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Oh Jesse, I'm so afraid
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We are going to lose the love that we've found
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Yankee lady so good to me
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Yankee lady just a memory
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Yankee lady so good to me
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Your memories gonna have to do for me
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I don't know what called to me
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But I know that I plain had to go
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I left that little old Vermont town
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To live down in sunny Mexico
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And now when I can see myself
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As a stranger by my birth
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The Yankee lady's old memory
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To Remind me of my worth
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Yankee lady so good to me
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Yankee lady just a memory
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Yankee lady so good to me
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Your memories gonna have to do for me
>From Jesse Winchester "Jesse Winchester"
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