Joan Baez singing Tom Waits' The Day After Tomorrow

[Ken Burch]

Run time: 05:09 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM4BwhQXOdM   Posted on YouTube: December 21, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: December 25, 2009 By DU Member: Ken Burch Views on DU: 2371

 
I got your letter today
And I miss you all so much, here
I can't wait to see you all
And I'm counting the days, dear
I still believe that there's gold
At the end of the world
And I'll come home
To Illinois
On the day after tomorrow

It is so hard
And it's cold here
And I'm tired of taking orders
And I miss old Rockford town
Up by the Wisconsin border
But I miss you won't believe
Shoveling snow and raking leaves
And my plane will touch tomorrow
On the day after tomorrow

I close my eyes
Every night
And I dream that I can hold you
They fill us full of lies
Everyone buys
About what it means to be a soldier
I still don't know how I'm supposed to feel
About all the blood that's been spilled
Look out on the street
Get me back home
On the day after tomorrow

You can't deny
The other side
Don't want to die
Any more than we do
What I'm trying to say,
Is don't they pray
To the same God that we do?
Tell me, how does God choose?
Whose prayers does he refuse?
Who turns the wheel?
And who throws the dice
On the day after tomorrow?

Mmmmmmm...
I'm not fighting
For justice
I am not fighting
For freedom
I am fighting
For my life
And another day
In the world here
I just do what I've been told
You're just the gravel on the road
And the one's that are lucky
One's come home
On the day after tomorrow

And the summer
It too will fade
And with it comes the winter's frost, dear
And I know we too are made
Of all the things that we have lost here
I'll be twenty-one today
I've been saving all my pay
And my plane will touch down
On the day after tomorrow
And my plane it will touch down
On the day after tomorrow


(Honor our troops-Honor the people of the Middle East and the world-Keep them ALL ALIVE!)

Christmas 2009

[chill_wind]

1. There was only ever one, and only ever will be

one Joan Baez. As`a young old girl, I had the maddest teen crush on her on her growing up.
Was given my first acoustic Gibson (used) when I was barely 15 and locked myself in my room for endless, endless hours trying to teach myself all her anthems and wishing I could be just a fraction as gifted as her some day.. :-)

Just beautiful. Thanks.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. I hear ya. I still have her albums, listen to them often.

[Ken Burch]

3. Thanks also are due to Tom Waits for this song

I chose to post her version of it because of the unity between antiwar singer of one generation and antiwar song of another.