Black Sky

Dave Alvin
 (Blue Horn Toad Music, BMI)
 Baby black sky
 Black sky is all I see
 Yeah baby black sky
 Black sky is all I see
 Please stand beside me baby
 Shine your light for me.
 Well I been all around the world
 Ain't nothin' I ain't seen
 From the Mekong River to the
 San Joaquin
 I made it down to Helena
 But it's just a ghost town
 And I got to Jackson
 But they tore old Jackson down.
 Yeah I been around the world
 Black sky is all I see
 Why don't you stand beside me baby
 Shine your light for me.
 Baby well I went to the graveyard
 To see my friend one last time
 People gathered 'round
 Some were prayin, some were cryin'
 They were talkin' about heaven
 And the final judgement day
 But all I could do was say goodbye to him
 Turn and walk away.
 Yeah I went to the graveyard
 But black sky was all I seen
 Please stand beside me baby
 Shine your light for me.
 I wake up every mornin'
 Try the best I can
 To make it one more day
 In a world I don't understand
 Now the sun baby's shinin'
 But there's darkness on the land
 And I can't find my way baby
 Unless you take my hand.
 Yeah I, I wake up every mornin' baby
 Black sky is all I see
 Please stand beside me baby
 Shine your light for me.
 Yeah black sky
 Black sky is all I see
 Please shine your light pretty baby
 Take this black sky away from me.