Baez Joan Angeline Lyrics

Angeline Lyrics

Yesterdays newspapers forecasts no rain for today

 Yesterdays news was old news, the skies are all grey

 Winters in labor and soon will give birth to the spring

 And sprinkle the meadows with flowers for my Angeline.

 

 Heartache and sorrow and sadness unendingly find

 Wings on a memry and with them she flies to my mind

 She stretched her arms for a moment, then went back to sleep

 While morning stood watching me ever so silently weak.

 

 She opened her eyes, Lord, the minute my feet touched the floor

 The cold hard-wood creaked with each step that I made to the door

 Then I turned to her gently and said, "Hon, just look, it is spring"

 Knowing outside the window, the winter looked for Angeline.

 

 But yesterdays newspaper forecast no rain for today,

 But yesterdays news is old news the skies are all grey.

 

 Mickey Newbury 

 Copyright 1969 by Acuff-Rose Publications, Inc.

 BMI 3:37