From their northeast source the sour wind roars
Bear gifts fresh from the valley waters.
Hallow echoes strip pennsylvania mountain walls
With their corsets and their old betsy ruffle
And their slips with pearly white.
They stand bulging up against the screen door,
A banshee good night.

Summer's sweet and she brings me water,
But give me winter, that old icy whore.
While summer lies meek and follows orders,
Winter cries me! and pulls you through the door.

The limp milk tramp cries metal-flake tears.
They drip like honey down <soot? > momma's leg.
You lay watchin' them off. eat a hole in his cloth.
He'll ask, but he don't beg.
Said I'd like to the mademoiselle
Who holds the keys to all these doors around the waist
And rings the bell.

Summer's sweet and she brings me water,
But give me winter, that old icy whore.
Summer lies meek and follows orders,
Winter cries me! and pulls you through the door.

With scufflin' sound, the knot-voiced matron makes her rounds,
Knockin' on each and every door.
With a look like white heat, she sways, salty, sweet
And leads me 'cross her persian floor.
She squeeze' my hand and before her I stood.
I was scared. it was dark, but it was good.

Summer's sweet and she brings me water,
But give me winter, that old icy whore.
While summer lies meek and follows orders,
Winter cries me! and pulls me through her door.

• 30 Days Out
• A Love So Fine
• Across The Borderline
• Action in The Streets
• After The Thunder
• All I Need
• All Night Long
• All The Way Home
• American Skin
• And The Band Played
• Angelyne
• Arabian Nights
• Baby I
• Bad Moon Rising
• Ballad of The Self-loading Pistol
• Blowin' in The Wind
• Blowing in The Wind
• Boom Boom Boom
• Bye Bye Johnny
• Chevrolet Deluxe
• Child Bride
• Cindy
• Club Soul City
• Dead Man Walking
• Dedication
• Deportee
• Drop on Down & Cover Me
• English Sons
• Everybody's Looking for Somebody
• Fade to Black
• Follow That
• Follow That Dream
• Forever Young
• Fortunate Son
• Freehold
• From Small Things Big Things Come
• Get That Feeling
• Get up Stand Up
• Good Rockin' Tonight
• Gypsy Woman
• Heart Full of Soul
• Heartbreak Hotel
• Held up Without a Gun
• Henry Boy
• High Hopes
• Highway 61 Revisited
• Hold On
• I Ain't Got No Home
• I Can't Help Falling in Love
• I Sold My Heart to The Junkman
• I Wanna Be Where The Bands Are
• I Want You
• I'm a Coward
• In Freehold
• In Michigan
• Jackson Cage
• Janey Needs a Shooter
• Jazz Musician
• Jeanny Needs a Shooter
• Jungeland
• Land of Hope & Dreams
• Let's Go
• Let's Go Tonight
• Lift Me Up
• Like a Rolling Stone
• Little Girl So Fine
• Little Things That Count
• Long Time Coming.
• Look to The Land
• Love on The Wrong Side of Town
• Love's on The Line
• Many Rivers to Cross
• Merry Christmas Baby
• Missing
• Native American
• New Jersey is My Home
• No Need
• None but The Brave
• On The Prowl
• Out of Work
• Outside Looking In
• Pilgrim in The Temple of Love
• Preacher's Daughter
• Protection
• Remember when The Music
• Rickie
• Rockin' All Over The World
• Santa Claus is Coming to Town
• Savin' Up
• Say Sons
• Sell It & They Will Come
• She's Leaving
• She's So Fine
• Song to The Orphans
• Spanish Eyes
• Spanish Harlem
• Street Queen
• Sugarland
• Sweet Soul Music
• Talk to Me
• Taxi Cab
• That's What You Get
• The Ballad of The Architect Angel
• The Big Payback
• The Hitter
• The Iceman
• The Promise Ii
• The Way
• The Word
• There Will Never Be Another for Me but You.
• This Little Girl
• Tonight
• Trapped
• Trapped Again
• Tweeter & The Monkey Man
• Vibes Man
• Vigilante Man
• Visitation at Fort Horn
• Viva Las Vegas
• Walking in The Street
• Walking Through Midnight
• When You Dance
• White Lies
• White Town
• Who'll Stop The Rain
• Wild Kisses
• Wings for Wheels
• Winter Song
• Without You
• Wreck on The Highway
• You Gotta Fight
• You Mean So Much to Me Baby
• Your Love