Arlo Guthrie (born 10th July 1947, Brooklyn, New York ) is an American folk… Read Full Bio ↴Arlo Guthrie (born 10th July 1947, Brooklyn, New York ) is an American folk singer who is the son of folk singer and composer Woody Guthrie and his wife Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, a one-time professional dancer with the Martha Graham Company and founder of The Committee to Combat Huntington's Disease. He graduated from the Stockbridge School of Massachusetts in 1965, and briefly attended Rocky Mountain College.
His most famous work is Alice's Restaurant, a talking blues song that lasts eighteen minutes and twenty seconds (in its original recorded version; Guthrie has been known to spin the story out to forty-five minutes in concert). The song, a bitingly satirical protest against the Vietnam War draft, is based on a true incident. In the song, Guthrie was called up for a draft examination, and rejected as unfit for military service as a result of a criminal record consisting in its entirety of a single arrest, court appearance, fine and clean-up order for littering. In reality, Guthrie, though a carrier of the genetically inherited disease Huntington's chorea, was classified as fit (1A); however, his draft-lottery number did not come up.
His most famous work is Alice's Restaurant, a talking blues song that lasts eighteen minutes and twenty seconds (in its original recorded version; Guthrie has been known to spin the story out to forty-five minutes in concert). The song, a bitingly satirical protest against the Vietnam War draft, is based on a true incident. In the song, Guthrie was called up for a draft examination, and rejected as unfit for military service as a result of a criminal record consisting in its entirety of a single arrest, court appearance, fine and clean-up order for littering. In reality, Guthrie, though a carrier of the genetically inherited disease Huntington's chorea, was classified as fit (1A); however, his draft-lottery number did not come up.
Here We Are – Way out in the Country
Arlo Guthrie Lyrics
Here I am
Won’t you take me in your arms tonight
And there you are
Looking like the stars are in your eyes
Here we go
You know it’s been so long since we were lovers
I don’t know
If I felt this way since then and baby why
Why we said goodbye
Why we sat and cried
Why we ever let this happen to us
I don’t care
Where you’ve been, I’ve been there too
You know that
You and me
We had some growing on our own to do now
Let’s get on, you know the time’s a-wasting
Morning’s breaking, here we are
Looking like we used to be and baby why
Why we said goodbye
Why we sat and cried
Why we ever let this happen to us
There’s a bird flying high
Way up in the air
And I am sitting here with you at my side
Way out in the country
There’s a lot of real big trees
Rolling gently on the breeze
And I am playing with the bumblebees
Out in the country
Puffy clouds are in the air
If it rains well we won’t care
‘Cause you look good in your underwear
Way out in the country
Here I am
Let me take you in my arms and hold you
Once again
It feels like we are coming home and well
Remember when
We were young and so in love together
Here we are
Happy like we used to be, and baby why
Why we said goodbye
Why we stood and cried
Why we ever let this this happen to us
You know the time is at an end
And you and I can just be friends
And if we let this moment pass
I think we both know it won’t come again
Won’t you take me in your arms tonight
And there you are
Looking like the stars are in your eyes
Here we go
You know it’s been so long since we were lovers
I don’t know
If I felt this way since then and baby why
Why we sat and cried
Why we ever let this happen to us
I don’t care
Where you’ve been, I’ve been there too
You know that
You and me
We had some growing on our own to do now
Let’s get on, you know the time’s a-wasting
Morning’s breaking, here we are
Looking like we used to be and baby why
Why we said goodbye
Why we sat and cried
Why we ever let this happen to us
There’s a bird flying high
Way up in the air
And I am sitting here with you at my side
Way out in the country
There’s a lot of real big trees
Rolling gently on the breeze
And I am playing with the bumblebees
Out in the country
Puffy clouds are in the air
If it rains well we won’t care
‘Cause you look good in your underwear
Way out in the country
Here I am
Let me take you in my arms and hold you
Once again
It feels like we are coming home and well
Remember when
We were young and so in love together
Here we are
Happy like we used to be, and baby why
Why we said goodbye
Why we stood and cried
Why we ever let this this happen to us
You know the time is at an end
And you and I can just be friends
And if we let this moment pass
I think we both know it won’t come again
Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS
Written by: Arlo Guthrie
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