Lady Vagabond

track name: Lady Vagabond
album and band name: from Featured Songs by SJ Tucker

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about: "Lady Vagabond" made herself known very definitely to me on a lonely 2-lane highway drive one day. She asserted herself as a part of my personality that I was just on the verge of recognizing, and I knew that I had to write her a song. She claimed it on Halloween 2004, in Austin, TX. I then proceeded to practice
that guitar hook obsessively, until I had it where I wanted it.

This song is my 'Mummer's Dance'. That's what I want for it. I want as many people dancing to "Lady Vagabond" in their ritual space as they do to 'Mummer's Dance'. My heart won't break if it doesn't happen any time soon, as long as it happens.

"Lady Vagabond" is the spirit of striking out on one's own, and she exists in each of us, whether or not she ever wakes. She woke in me with a vengeance, and my life has reflected her influence greatly since we met, two years ago now. I have crossed the land of my birth countless times, all on my own power and my own gas money, and I couldn't be more satisfied with my travels. I recommend the nomad's life--as long as you remember to listen to your body and to stop at grocery stores instead of fast food places, it's a very healthy way to live. I have seen more of this country than I ever thought I would, more than I could imagine. And I'm not finished. Europe is next, of course.
lyrics: Lady on the road, not afraid to let go
I'll leave you just because I can,
and ride alone just like a gypsy man
just Django and the land
I'm not about to let go this road,
at least not until I know.
Miss a beat and you'll not find me
where you did a month ago
Four directions singing, rising,
how this tale unfolds!
Gypsy journey with all the twists
a caravan can hold,
I will break your hungry heart and leave you
Just because I can
ride on alone in my handbasket,
gypsy and the land.
Lady Vagabond hath come and come into her own
Singing Hi, the open road is home!

Wild, I take each mile of road,
as much as I can get
You ask me if I'm lonely.
Well, I haven't felt it yet.
Wild, I'm singing up the moon
and down the winds of change.
Cross-country in this handbasket,
your girl is passing strange
Lady Vagabond hath risen and come into her own
Singing Hi, the open road is home!

I Send my melody line around
and back to chase its tail
gas tank's full, like a head of stories,
and the road will never pale
my heart will never fail
a life that's full can never pale
my voice will never fail.
hear that lonely train whistle wail

Where I have been and where I'm bound
even the angels would not know
All four winds blow steady, singing
Hi, the open road is home
Four directions singing, rising,
Hi, the open road is home
Lady Vagabond has come and come into her own
Hi, the open road is home!
We are home, yeah,
Hi, the open road is home!
credits: from Featured Songs, released 01 February 2010
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