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The Show
(Gretchen Peters)

Freight train plays a major seventh chord
Sign across the street says praise the Lord
Hotel coffee tastes like kerosene
And I'm happy as I think I've ever been

I don't really know just where I am
Somewhere between Bend and Birmingham
Here with you in some borrowed zip code
Nothin’ on our minds but the show

Be home tomorrow evening if we fly
If the weather's clear and the interstate stays dry
Nineteen songs and one more night to go
Time to get it up for the show


From time to time you may hear me complain
But only in passing like that old freight train
As if to make my presence known
As if to say I'm not alone

So leave that don't disturb sign on the door
Come lie beside your weary troubadour
We'll rest ourselves before it's time to go
What we got left we'll save it for the show

© 2013 Circus Girl Music (ASCAP), administered by Carnival Music. Used By Permission. All Rights Reserved.

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from Dancing With The Beast, released May 18, 2018
Gretchen Peters acoustic guitar, vocal, background vocals
Doug Lancio electric guitar, drum program, synth
Will Kimbrough charango
Barry Walsh piano, Fender Rhodes
Dave Roe bass
John Gardner drums and percussion

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Gretchen Peters Nashville, Tennessee

For two decades, Gretchen Peters has been one of Nashville's most beloved and respected artists. A 2014 inductee into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Peters has accumulated accolades as both songwriter and artist. Her latest album, The Night You Wrote That Song: The Songs of Mickey Newbury (May 2020), is a loving tribute to another Hall of Fame songwriter. ... more

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