Track Listing Morning is the Long Way Home Kottke* (6:26) [Lyrics] Pamela Brown Tom T. Hall** (4:03) [Lyrics] A Good Egg Kottke* (3:10) Tilt Billings and the Student Prince Leo Kottke/Ron Nagle* (4:56) [Lyrics] All Through the Night trad. arr/Kottke* (1:30) Short Stories Leo Kottke/Cal Hand* (3:01) You Tell Me Why Ron Elliot+ (3:58) [Lyrics] You Know I Know You Know Kottke* (4:08) [Lyrics] Born to Be With You Don Robertson++ (3:02) [Lyrics] A Child Should be A Fish Kottke* (3:45) *Overdrive Music, ASCAP; **Hallnote Music, BMI; +Clears Music, Inc., BMI; ++Edwin H. Morris & Company, Inc.

Cover from Ice Water

Production Credits: Personnel: Leo Kottke - 6 & 12 String Guitar, Vocals Bill Berg - Drums, Percussion Bill Peterson - Bass Bill Barber - Piano Cal Hand - Dobro & Steel Guitar Album Design & Illustration Concept - John Van Hamersveld Produced By Denny Bruce (Takoma Productions, Inc.) Recorded, Mixed & Mastered - Sound 80, Minneapolis, Minnesota Engineer - Paul "Don't Call Me Sister Martin" Martinson Lyrics: Morning Is the Long Way Home I heard your voice at midnight By the river shore I saw your child sleeping Behind an open door The moon was in the river Shining up from the floor And the fish swam like moon light Through your child's closing door And morning is the long way home The fisherman was drowning By his broken heel His screams were tiny bubbles And his tongue made of steel When he died his teeth made stones For your lonely child to feel And morning is the long way home The ghost of ghosts was passing And the grasses waved like hair I knew I'd die forgotten I'm the whisper of your care The water would surround me And my body would despair But my heart would understand The door that's closing there And morning is the Long Way Home Copyright ©1973 Overdrive Music/ASCAP.  Used by Permission. [Track listing] Pamela Brown I'm the guy that didn't marry pretty Pamela Brown Educated, well-intentioned good girl in our town I wonder where I'd be today if she had loved me too Probably be driving kids to school Chorus: I guess I owe it all to Pamela Brown All of my good times - all my roamin' around One of these days I might be in your town And I guess I owe it all to Pamela Brown Seen the lights of cities and been inside their doors Sailed to foreign countries and walked upon their shores I guess the guy she married was the best part of my luck She dug him cause he drove a pick-up truck Chorus repeat I don't have to tell you just how beautiful she was Everything it takes to get a guy like me in love Lord I hope she's happy cause she sure deserves to be Especially for what she did for me Copyright ©1971 Hallnote Music/BMI.  Used by permission. [Track listing] Tilt Billings And the Student Prince Tilt Billings saw a guitar in a pawn shop window Not much to look at but he knew that he'd found The old Student Prince that they made years ago So easy to play -- what unbeatable sound! Paid twenty bucks and grabbed his guitar Still be a steal at ten times the dough It was amazing how a mere beginner Could play just a few notes and sound like a pro He'd play his heart out when he was at parties Guys would get jealous -- but girls were impressed They'd ask how he did it he'd say "Nothin' to it, with this kind of guitar it brings out my best." One night when he had the room captivated He took five and set down his prince When a drunk stumbled by and sat down where he laid it And he's never sounded quite the same since Ron Nagle's House Party So Tilt's still upset but he's givin' up crying Just can't lift his eyes from the sad, sad ground Time marches on with its fingers still trying To find, once again, that Student Prince sound. Copyright ©1973 Overdrive Music/ASCAP.  Used by Permission. [Track listing] You Tell Me Why You tell me that I must not cry You tell me all good things must die You ask me why I get upset You tell me that I will forget Tell me why You tell me I won't be blue for long You say I'll find a love that's strong You tell me she was not for me That's just the way love's got to be Tell me why You tell me I will find my way Tomorrow won't be like today You tell me life was meant to be One-third good two-thirds misery Tell me why You tell me that I must not cry You tell me all good things must die You ask me why I get upset You tell me that I will forget Copyright ©1965 Clears Music Inc./BMI.  Used by Permission. [Track listing] You Know I Know You Know Don't you mean I was lost Don't you think you're alone You don't have to explain it's not the same Nobody knows the name of the game Don't you mean I was lost Don't you think you're alone Chorus: You don't have to explain You're just the same Nobody knows the name of the game Don't you mean I'm lonely Don't you think you're alone Stray dogs, lost cause, phonies Holding onto your own Chorus repeat Come on, rave on, Your partner can dance You know I know you know You ought to jump at the chance I don't need to explain It's not all the same Nobody knows the name of the game Copyright ©1973 Overdrive Music/ASCAP.  Used by Permission. [Track listing] Born To Be With You By your side Satisfied Through and through Cause I was born To be with you Wondrously love can see So I knew That I was born To be with you Do I find Peace of mind Yes I do Cause I was born To be with you By your side Satisfied Through and through Cause I was born To be with you Copyright ©1956 Edwin H. Morris & Company, Inc./ASCAP.  Used by Permission. [Track listing]