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"The songs of Robert Johnson."

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This was inspired by the great
blues artist Robert Johnson

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while I traveled in a
car through the Montana

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countryside.

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Listening to his
wonderful songs,

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I wrote this kind
of dreamlike reverie

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that pays tribute
to his great talent.

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"As I drive, the songs
of Robert Johnson

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latched the mountains
with their blue heft.

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Keep the horses
in their pastures

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among troubled haystacks.

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Prevent the lake from rushing
across sleeping fences.

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The clouds begin
their honky-tonk,

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scattering random
notes like milkweed.

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I think of fish and
bread, chewed sugar cane,

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and water poured from a pitcher.

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Capable of vast rifts, they
hold railroad tracks and freight

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cars.

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They keep the lid on night
wanderers, tractors, sirens,

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the fog-laden insomniac trees.

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They travel to those he
left behind and touch them

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with a vast, soft hand.

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The enormous sky,
stranded and forlorn,

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filled with our yearnings--
pure clear notes.

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