Good Fortune

Joe Henry Good Fortune written by Joe Henry

Joe Henry vocals/acoustic guitar

Kenny Callahan drums

Gary Louris guitar/vocals

Mark Olson mandolin/acoustic guitar/vocals

Marc Perlman bass

Mike Russell viola/violin/banjo/vocals

Dan Murphey acoustic guitar

I will come back for my things

Then I'll go the way I came

back down your crooked steps two at a time

And to the morning sun

I will call as I run

As if it waited for me now to shine

This is my good fortune now at last

This is all I never knew to ask of you

To leave me with no love I might return.

I know where I could go

And work awhile, you never know

the change might be enough to set me free

I could leave tonight

And discover I was right

But now freer than I ever chose to be

This is my good fortune now at last

this is all I never knew to ask of you

To leave me with no love I might return

I climb up on the side

Of the engine where I ride

It's warmer than all that I leave behind

I shake my collar free

And hold myself against my knee

And I pray tonight's the peaceful, dreamless kind.

This is my good fortune now at last

This is all I never knew to ask of you

To leave me with no love I might return

This is my good fortune

>From Joe Henry "Short Man's Room"

Mammoth Records 1992