[ti:Outside The Nashville City Lim] [ar:Joan Baez] [al:Blessed Are...] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.81]Outside the Nashville city limits [00:04.24]A friend and I did drive on a day in early winter [00:08.86]I was glad to be alive [00:11.79]We went to see some friends of [00:14.04]His who lived upon a farm [00:18.26]Strange and gentle country folk [00:20.45]Who would wish nobody harm [00:24.32]Fresh-cut sixty acres [00:26.87]Eight cows in the barn [00:30.43]But the thing that I remember [00:34.94]On that cold day in December [00:39.81]Was that my eyes they did brim over [00:44.94]As we talked [00:48.51] [00:50.38]In the slowest drawl I had ever heard [00:52.70]The man said"Come with me if y'all wanna see [00:57.00]The prettiest place in all of Tennessee" [01:00.28]He poured us each a glass of wine [01:02.59]And a-walking we did go [01:06.21]Along fallen leaves and crackling ice [01:08.64]Where a tiny brook did flow [01:12.70]He knew every inch of the land [01:14.94]And Lord he loved it so [01:18.50]But the thing that I remember [01:23.05]On that cold day in December [01:27.99]Was that my eyes were brimming over [01:32.92]As we walked [01:37.34] [01:38.34]He set my down upon a stone [01:40.15] [01:40.88]Beside a running spring [01:43.25]He talked in a voice so soft and clear [01:45.56]Like the waters I heard sing [01:47.99]He said"We searched quite a time [01:50.54]For a place to call our own [01:53.67] [01:54.29]There was just me and Mary John [01:56.68]And now I guess we're home" [02:00.19]I looked at the ground and wondered [02:02.06]How many years they each had roamed [02:06.30]And Lord I do remember [02:10.92]On that day in late December [02:15.73]How my eyes kept brimming over [02:20.61]As we talked [02:25.60]As we walked [02:30.78]And standing there with outstretched arms [02:33.33]He said to me"You know [02:35.58]I can't wait till the heavy storms [02:38.08]Cover the ground with snow" [02:40.64]"And there on the pond the watercress [02:43.01]Is all that don't turn white [02:46.52]When the sun is high you squint your eyes [02:49.08]And look at the hills so bright" [02:52.82]And nodding his head my friend said [02:55.07]"And it seems like overnight [02:58.83]That the leaves come out so tender [03:03.58]At the turning of the winter" [03:06.53] [03:08.00]I thought the skies they would brim over [03:12.99]As we talked