Name: Alaska
Duration: P00H03M51S
Description: I think it was Doug Kershaw I imagined singing this but the way I recorded it is way different. I had no agenda in writing, just "heard" the first line and added it to it until it felt finished.

Alaska

from Memory Net by Thinkspeak

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I think it was Doug Kershaw I imagined singing this but the way I recorded it is way different. I had no agenda in writing, just "heard" the first line and added it to it until it felt finished.

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When I was down in Louisiana
I was never harried like here in Alaska

It's so bloody cold when the sun goes down
night time falls thickly for months
It's as cold as death 'till the Yukon thaws out
that won't be 'till July
I'm dreamin of the bayou tonight dreamin of the bayou tonight

2.
I wake in the mornin the windows are frozen
I scrape it away and the snow's like an ocean

steel stove is red hot but the coffee is cold
the wood pile gets smaller each hour
my breath turns to icicles clear to the floor
I guess I can't handle this life
I'm dreamin of the bayou tonight dreamin of the bayou tonight

3.
I swear that I'm leavin but I never remember
'till I'm standin too late in the snows of September

I ain't heard another voice my radio died
I'm sick of the echo of mine
It's muffled by the howlin wind that roars without pause
I fear that I'm havin a fright
I'm dreamin of the bayou tonight dreamin of the bayou tonight

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from Memory Net, released July 7, 2012

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Thinkspeak Atlanta, Georgia

Tom Ferguson has been writing songs since 1969, all of which are collected in Songs, 1969-2018. It's coil-bound to nicely fit a music stand, available at lulu.com just search tom ferguson there.

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