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by Emmylou Harris



Sent: Saturday, January 17, 1998 12:43 AM

Emmylou Harris   White Line   written by Emmylou Harris
                                         Paul Kennerley


drums             Russ Kunkel/Larrie Londin
bass              Emory Gordy
keyboards         Shane Keister/John Jarvis
acoustic guitars  Albert Lee/Hank DeVitoBarry Tashian
                  Bobby Thompson/Paul Kennerley
electric guitars  Albert Lee/Vince Gill/Ray Flacke
steel guitar      Hank DeVito
mandolin          Albert Lee
fiddle            Buddy Spicher
harmonica         Steve Cash/Gary Scruggs
banjo             Bobby Thompson
slide guitar      Phillip Donelly
background vocals Dolly Parton/Linda Ronstadt
                  Gail Davies/Vince Gill/Barbara Cowart

                              
It seems like I was there from the start
                                    
A witness to your wild and reckless heart
                                 
You showed me the way but now you're gone

Quicker than the trigger of an outlaw's gun

Living fast and dying young
                                 
A victim of this road you left me on
              
White line took my baby
                 
Led him down that dark highway
                      
Headlight blind driving crazy
              
If my wheels keep turning
                         
Gonna roll that white line away
                               
We worked the road as hard as we could drive her
                         
But now I am the only survivor
                                 
>From night to night at every place I play in

The sweetness of your song remains

I'll be the keeper of the flame
                                        
Til every soul hears what your heart was saying
              
White line took my baby
                 
Led him down that dark highway
                      
Headlight blind driving crazy
              
If my wheels keep turning
                         
Gonna roll that white line away
                       
All the nights you spent alone
                      
All the love I'd never shown
                        
All the words I could not say
                            
Till that white line took you away
                   
White line took you away
                                         
I'll follow this white line down where it's winding
                                             
Cause somewhere up ahead your light's still shining
                             
The sound of the silver strings  will guide me

I've stood and watched the bridges burn

I'm past the point of no return
                                    
Oh how I wish that you were here beside me
                
White line took my baby
                      
Led him down that dark highway
                       
Headlight blind driving crazy
               
If my wheels keep turning
                          
Gonna roll that white line away
                
White line took my baby
                      
Led him down that dark highway
                       
Headlight blind driving crazy
               
If my wheels keep turning
                          
Gonna roll that white line away

  From The Emmylou Harris "The Ballad Of Sally Rose" LP
  Warner Brothers Records 1984
  Emmylou Song(ASCAP)/Irving Music(BMI)