Recordings:  Ice Water (1974)
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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
Album Cover
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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