Ashgrove

I was born Everett Ruess I've been dead for sixty years I was just a young boy in my twenties The day I disappeared Into the Grand Escalante Badlands Near the Utah and Arizona line And they never found my body, boys Or understood my mind I grew up in

I hear a voice singin' somewhere in time A song I knew long ago And it takes me back to places somewhere in time And everyone I used to know I see a face, I remember somewhere in time Someone I loved who's gone away. Gone away somewhere in time Gone

His mama said, "Baby, wait for me in the car" And she went lookin' for his daddy inside a bar So he sat and let the radio take him far away Listenin' to X-P-R-S and K-R-L-A Plastic silver nine volt heart You click it on and let the music start A

Dave Alvin/Tom Russell (Blue Horn Toad Music, BMI/Frontera Music, ASCAP) I guess she put her blue dress on And walked out late last night Left one silk stocking Dangling from the bedside light I sobered up and called her name Just before the dawn I s