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The Northland

from Vincent Rolls by Dave Manning

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Sparks dance toward the sky a thousand miles from home
For Saint John the Batiste, he’s cryin alone in the Northland
French girls dance like there’s no one around
And they all love ya in that tent city town, in the Northland
Cowboy singin songs on a borrowed guitar
All about salvation, he found it in a bar

He’s goin where the sun never goes down
And the rivers flow with ice and gold
And the people are strong, that’s how they carry on
In a land as big as your soul

500 miles of dirt, I’m travelin along,
If your windshield aint busted, you just don’t belong in the Northland
Dust in your coffee, dust in your bones,
Speed up for that long grade you don’t wanna gear down in the Northland
Best water in the world, flowin through an old gas hose
Just how long that spring’s been there the good lord only knows

I’m goin where the sun never goes down
And the rivers flow with ice and gold
And the people are strong, that’s how they carry on
In a land as big as your soul

Old man in a graveyard, where lies a way of life
Sits alone at night drinkin beer with his wife in the Northland
Talks a lot about the way things are, and the life that he’s led
Fifty years since he came here, he built his homestead in the Northland
Last frontier there were no roads, there were no telephones
If he needed somethin he had to make it on his own

He’s diein where the sun never goes down
And the rivers flow with ice and gold
And the people are strong, that’s how they carry on
In a land as big as your soul

Met this girl in the brewery, she was cryin in her beer
Talkin about her father, he told her come here, to the Northland
Sold her home, sold her car, to make her dreams come true
A one-way ticket north, it was his dream too in the Northland
She says “Daddy thank-you, for makin me so strong.”
But he can’t hear her, the distance is too long

She’s stayin where the sun never goes down
And the rivers flow with ice and gold
And the people are strong, that’s how they carry on
In a land as big as your soul

Goin where the sun never goes down
And the rivers flow with ice and gold
And the people are strong, that’s how they carry on
In a land as big as your soul
In a land as big as your soul

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from Vincent Rolls, released January 1, 2008

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Dave Manning Arizona Village, Arizona

He's played Folsom Prison. He's opened for the likes of Dan Bern, Mose Allison, and Squirrel Nut Zippers frontman James Mathus. He's held up traffic all over the west puttering along in an old VW Microbus that Arlo Guthrie autographed. Dave is living his life in the old tradition of the traveling-storytelling songwriters. ... more

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