Name: Old Back Road
Duration: P00H02M11S
Description: This song dates from 1973 (just before the oil crisis) when according to Google, gas was a $.38 cents a gallon and my X husband and I used to drive around in his red Toyota, looking for old dirt roads to get lost on... This track was recorded in Fall of 2009 at Pierce Campbell's music studio in Prospect, CT.

Old Back Road

from These Broken Years by Mad Mar Walker

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This song dates from 1973 (just before the oil crisis) when according to Google, gas was a $.38 cents a gallon and my X husband and I used to drive around in his red Toyota, looking for old dirt roads to get lost on... This track was recorded in Fall of 2009 at Pierce Campbell's music studio in Prospect, CT.

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OLD BACK ROAD

by Mad Mar Walker

REFRAIN:
Just give me an old back road
and a beat up car
That will get me very far
I will ride to the nearest star
on an old back road and a beat up car

VERSE 1
Go where the trees are mighty,
and the road keeps disappearing.
Go where the birds are singing,
and the ruts in the road
keep your chasie ringing.

VERSE 2
Go where the woods surround you,
and the underbrush is growing.
Go where the woods are breezy,
and the smell of trees in the wind
makes the breathing easy.

VERSE 3
Walk in the mountain's shadow
through pines and over mosses.
Look where your road has brought you,
and see and smell and live
all the poems nature's taught you.

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from These Broken Years, track released January 1, 2010

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Singer-songwriter, finger-pickin-style acoustic guitar-player, performance poet and eccentric human being. Even better live!!

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