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Taken from 'Shine a Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad'. In March 2016 Billy Bragg and Joe Henry, guitars in hand, boarded a Los Angeles-bound train at Chicago’s Union Station looking to reconnect with the culture of American railroad travel and the music it inspired. Winding along 2,728 miles of track over four days, the pair recorded classic railroad songs in waiting rooms and at trackside while the train paused to pick up passengers.

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Director : Ray Foley
DOP: Mark Lindsay
Editor: Tim Hansberry

Lyrics:
Its knowing that your door is always open
and your path is free to walk
That makes me tends to leave my sleeping bag rolled up
And stashed behind your couch
Its knowing I'm not shackled
By forgotten words and bars
And the ink stains that have dried upon some lines
That keeps you on the back roads
By the rivers of my memories
Keeps you ever gentle
On my mind
Its not clinging to the rocks and ivy
Planted on the columns
Now that binds me
Or something that somebody said
Because they thought we fit together walkin
Its just knowing that the world
Will not be cursed or forgiven
When I walk along some railway track and find
That your waiting on the back roads
By the rivers of my memory
For hours your just gentle on my mind
Though the wheat fields
And the clothes lines and the
Junkyards and the highways come between us
And some other womans crying
To her daughter cause she turned
And I was gone
Well i still might run in silence
Tears of joy might stain my face
And the summer sun might burn me
Till I'm blind
But not to where I cannot see
you walkin down the back roads
By the rivers slowing gentle
On My Mind
Well dip my cup of soup back
From a dribblin cauldron
in some train yard
My beard rough and the coal pile
And a dirty hat pulled low
Across my face
Through cuptail drivin tin can
I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
That your waiting on the back roads
By the rivers of my memory
Ever smilin ever gentle on my mind

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