Song of the Week: How's the Weather Where You Are? - May 23, 2020
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Download Chris Thile\\u2019s Song of the Week for May 23, 2020: \\u201cHow\\u2019s the Weather Where You Are?\\u201d (originally from our December 7, 2019 show) The band: Chris Thile, Aoife O\\u2019Donovan, Mike Elizondo, Chris Eldridge, Marcus Gilmore, Brittany Haas, Brett Williams.
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\\n\\nLyrics:
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\\n\\nMorse: A nibble!
\\nLincoln: A bite!
\\nA reason to be thankful\\u2014
\\nM: \\u2014for another sleepless night
\\nBut how best to set the hook?
\\nL: How best to reel him in?
\\nM: Hmm...what to send?
\\nL: Hmm...what to send?
\\n\\nM + L: Not my name
\\nL: He\\u2019ll know it
\\nM: Rendering this another unclean slate
\\nL: Another couple hours answering for these Divided States
\\nM: And being the amplifier of this rift between Americans
\\nWon\\u2019t help me make a friend
\\nL: What to send?
\\nM + L: Hmm...what to send?
\\n\\nL: What are the chances of this meeting? I won\\u2019t let it get away
\\nM: Who else will dance me through the dead of night unto the break of day?
\\nL: If I believed in God I\\u2019d ask him
\\nM: Father, tell me
\\nM + L: what to say
\\nTo make a friend out of this stranger on the wire
\\n\\nL: How\\u2019s the weather where you are?
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\\n\\nM: It\\u2019s hot as stock in Western Union
\\nThe air\\u2019s as thick as the brow of a grim patent judge
\\n\\nL: Is that your field of law?
\\n\\nM: Nice try. How\\u2019s the weather where YOU are?
\\n\\nL: Hot as the barrel of a freshly fired cannon
\\nAir as thick as the skull of McDowell at Bull Run
\\nAnd the smoke rising up to the sky
\\nOver sons that were loved as much as mine was
\\n\\nM: I\\u2019m sorry for your loss.
\\n\\nL: I\\u2019m grateful for your ear
\\nI hope I haven\\u2019t scared you off
\\n\\nM: Fellow stranger au contraire
\\nAny night you feel like hopping
\\nOn this wire I\\u2019ll be here
\\nWaiting to ask you how\\u2019s the weather where you are
\\n\\nL + M: How\\u2019s the weather where you are?
\\n\\nM: Cold as the sweat I woke up in an hour ago
\\nL: Cold as each toe in each boot marching south through the snow
\\nM: Exactly further yet from their hearths and our peace
\\nWere I Abe I would bid each brave toe retreat*
\\n\\nL: What of the war for freedom lost?
\\n\\nM: I don\\u2019t believe it\\u2019s ours
\\nI hope that doesn\\u2019t scare you off
\\n\\nL: Fellow stranger au contraire
\\nAny night you feel like hopping
\\nOn this wire I\\u2019ll be here
\\nWaiting to ask you how\\u2019s the weather where you are
\\n\\n\\u2018Cause you can learn a lot about someone from asking how they feel about the weather where they are
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