Where Are You Tonight Lyrics

#
#
##This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the#
##song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research.#
#
#
#Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 18:11:52 -0700
#From: Brent Wood
#Subject: c/cowboy_junkies/where_are_you_tonight.crd
#
#WHERE ARE YOU TONIGHT?
#
#written by M. Timmins and The Cowboy Junkies,
#from the album Caution Horses
#submitted and transcribed in June 1998
#by Brent Wood, bwood@artcenter.edu
#
#
There's a young man in the corner, playing crazy all night long.
Quarters piled high upon the table.
And he orders Wild Turkey with a quick wit and a smile.
He says "my darling, you're the one I'll drape in sable."
But his baseball cap, and his barroom rap tell me a different story
That this is not my prince to grant all my wishes
Just another lonely country boy, grown weary of the night.
Just another boy, with a sink full of dirty dishes.
And where are you tonight?
When I left you in my dreams last night,
You promised me that we would be breaking free.
Where are you tonight?
And he tells me of the backroads, and I will ride them all night long.
And the days of fate and the moon will hang forever.
And a cloud of dust will kick up and linger like a sun.
And the myth will grow about the two who refused to surrender.
But as I catch us in the barroom mirror
with his arm around my shoulder,
This girl I see has grown so unfamiliar.
And as she stands to leave with a stranger by her side,
She can't help but laugh at a life turned so peculiar,
And where are you tonight?
I don't think I can face tomorrow's light,
C G Am (hold)
Not knowing if you'll be there to guide me.
And where are you tonight?
I think I can make it through all right,
F Em Am (hold)
But I'd love to have you just one more time beside me.
These Cowboy Junkies songs are so cool to play on guitar.
Brent Wood
bwood@artcenter.edu