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After playing the Ann Arbor Folk Festival, Lloyd and I were stuck on an interstate in Michigan during a white out. A native Texan, I’d never experienced anything quite like it. As the hours ticked by, we waited it out on the interstate, with the engine off, in the cold, to conserve gas. We had our eyes wide open, but were unable to see anything but white blinding snow pummeling us on I 94.
 
I based a chapter in my book on this song, along with “Come Tomorrow.” The subject matter embodies perseverance, Mother Nature, and organic gardening and its symbolic relation to living a full life.

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Too many people
On the streets
With bills to pay
Babies to feed
Places to get to
With red lights in the way
If time is money
We’re coming up short today

Threadbare constellations
Nothing but black skies
Miles and miles of highway
With snow on the sides
Salt on the road
I got salt on my tongue
You can slide with the tears
And still roll on, roll on, roll on

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, I ain’t gonna lose it

Times are hard
Times are lean
My friends are few
And far between
You, I need you
I need you

Low man on the totem poll
Wants to lasso the moon
Their standing on his shoulders
His hands are on their shoes
I been there
You been there
We know how it feels
To have your hands on everything
On everything but the wheel
I got my hands on everything
On everything but the wheel

Times are hard
Times are lean
My friends are few
And far between

Sister, I need my sister
Brother, I need my brother
You, I need you
We gotta roll on, roll on, roll on

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, I ain’t gonna lose it

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from Cry Till You Laugh, track released June 22, 2010

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Terri Hendrix San Marcos

Terri Hendrix is an award-winning Texas songwriter who spins sorrow into joy and wrings wisdom from the blues with a poetic grace, warmth and uplifting melodic flair that has long been her trademark. A classically trained vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Hendrix dodges musical pigeonholes by weaving folk, pop, country, blues and jazz into an eclectic style all her own. ... more

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