Emmylou Harris

Songwriter: Bruce Springsteen

Producer: Brian Ahern

[Verse]
You make up your mind, you choose the chance you take
You're riding where the highway ends and the desert breaks
Out on to an open road, you ride until the day
You learn to sleep at night with the price you pay

Now with their heads held high
They reached out for the open sky
And with their one last breath
They knew the roads they would ride to their deaths
Driving on through the night
Unable to break away from the restless pull of the price you pay

[Chorus]
Oh the price you pay, oh the price you pay
You can't walk away from the price you pay

[Verse]
Now they've come so far and they've waited so long
Just to end up caught in a dream where everything goes wrong
Where the dark of the night holds back the light of the day
And you got to stand and fight for the price you pay

[Chorus]
Oh the price you pay, oh the price you pay
You can't walk away from the price you pay

[Verse]
Little girl down on the strand
With that pretty little baby in her hands
Do you remember the story of the promised land?
How he crossed the desert sands
And could not enter the Chosen Land
On the banks of the river he stays
To face the price you pay

So let the games start
You better run your little wild heart
You can run through all the nights and all the days
But just across the county line
A stranger passing through put up a sign
That counts so many fallen away
To the price you pay

[Chorus]
Oh the price you pay, oh the price you pay
You can't walk away from the price you pay

Oh the price you pay, oh the price you pay
You can't walk away from the price you pay

Emmylou Harris was born in Birmingham, Alabama on April 2, 1947 to Walter and Eugenia Harris. She attended Garfield Senior High School where she graduated as Valedictorian. She then went to UNCG School of Music, Theatre & Dance at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro but dropped out to pursue her musical talents.

Emmylou married Tom Slocum in 1969, but this was a very short marriage as they divorced the following year. It was long enough, however, to produce a daughter, Mika Hallie Slocum, on March 15, 1970. In 1977 she married Brian Ahern and they were married roughly seven years. The couple had one daughter together, Meghann Theresa “M.T” Ahern, born September 9, 1979. In 1985, she married Paul Kennerley who she was married to until 1993.

The 5'5" singer-songwriter is known for songs such as “Beneath Still Waters”, “Together Again”, “Two More Bottles of Wine”.

From the album

Cimarron (1981)

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