John Gorka (born 1958) is a contemporary American folk musician. In 1991, Rolling Stone magazine called him "the preeminent male singer-songwriter of what has been dubbed the New Folk Movement." [read more] - Good
I am good at dreamsI am good at dreamsBad at savings bondsFashion magazinesI am good at dreamsI am good at dreamsI am good at nightI am good at nightSun don't fit me rightI tried with all my mightI am good at nightI...
- Houses In The Fields
They're growing houses in the fields between the townsAnd the Starlight drive-in movie's closing downThe road is gone to the way it was beforeAnd the spaces won't be spaces anymoreTwo more farms were broken by the...
- I'm From New Jersey
I'm from New JerseyI don't expect too muchIf the world ended todayI would adjustI'm from New JerseyNo I don't talk that wayI watched too much TVWhen I was youngI'm from New JerseyMy mom's ItalianI've read those mafia...
- Jack's Crows
Jack's crows are loud in the morningThey're critical of other birdsFarmers don't appreciate 'emThough they don't say it in so many wordsJack's crows Jack's crowsWhere everybody's fromAnd nobody goesThat's where you're...
- My New Neighborhood
This neighborhood is full of muttsBarking kids and argumentsPeople yell from block to blockAnd quiet down by 10 O'clockThey blow their horns in a kind of codeAnd gun their engines in the roadWith both hands they check...
- Night Is A Woman
Night is a woman who embraces meI am never lonely in her armsDeep in her heart I am free from harmThe moon and the stars are her ancient charmsShe gives to me the gift of less to seeNight is a woman who embraces meI...
- Semper Fi
My father met Eleanor RooseveltIn 1945The war at last was over thenAnd they were still aliveHer husband was the PresidentTill he ran out of timeHer Franklin D. was historyAnd they'd put him on the dimeMy father joined...
- Silence
I met her in the summertimeWhen her armsWere the color of silenceSo blue her eyesA new horizonAnd I walked that wayAnd I talked that way tooAnd I found my way throughTo her silenceWhoaTo her silenceMy heart was full...
- The Ballad Of Jamie Bee
Jamie ran aground out in OhioWife left for the great unknownHe says he's gonna take to the high roadShe will find a place aloneHe says he just could not make her happyThat he never tried so hard beforeHe'd wake up...
- The Mercy Of The Wheels
I heard a train callingThrough the middle of the nightI heard the whistleAnd the mercy of the wheelsIt's a hand to mouth existenceIn a mouth to nothing worldI was longingFor the way I used to feelI'd like to catch a...
- Treasure Islands
Love is never easyIt's almost always out of your wayIt's not the path of least resistanceIt's not some words you get to sayIt's a stream running up the mountainIt's a wave rolling out from the shoreI wish I could say...
- Where The Bottles Break
I walk where the bottles breakAnd the blacktop still comes back for moreI walk where the bottles breakAnd the blacktop still comes backI live where the neighbors yellAnd their music comes up through the floorI live...
- You're On Your Way
Two old men spitting through the teeth of their dreamsThey sent an arc of bitterness to youYou didn't duck it and you got hurtIn this funny world we're going throughIt might have been the hard liquor talkingOr the...
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