Lyrics

DUST TO DUST BLUES
(Music and Lyric by Louis Rosen)

The road to Chicago
Eight Hundred miles and more
From the Brooklyn Bridge
To the Indiana Skyway
This road takes me backwards
To a life I lived before
And the distance can’t be
Measured by some highway

Dust to dust
I’ve been in the wilderness
Deep in the wilderness with
Mud on my shoes
Try as I must, I
Seek out the holiness
Here in the wilderness
Amidst the echo of these
Homegrown
Dust to dust blues

A young man rides beside me
His dreams are brave and bold
Like the road his future
Stretches out before him
His laughter is contagious
A beauty to behold
And I pray that great good fortune
Won’t ignore him

Dust to dust
I’ve been in the wilderness
Deep in the wilderness with
Mud on my shoes

Try as I must, I
Seek out the holiness
Here in the wilderness
Amidst the echo of these
Homegrown
Dust to dust blues

By afternoon we’re cruising
Through those Pennsylvania Hills
Further back my memories fly
Nightfall brings the smokestacks
From the South Chicago mills
My need for distance disappears
When did all these years go by?

The road to Chicago
My hands upon the wheel
Soon time will claim the
People I still know there
An orphan in a strange land
I believe that’s how I’ll feel
Come the day when there’s no
Reason left to go there

Dust to dust
I’ve been in the wilderness
Deep in the wilderness with
Mud on my shoes
Try as I must, I
Seek out the holiness
Here in the wilderness
Resist my faithlessness
Amidst the echo of these
Homegrown Dust to dust blues

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