TONY JOE WHITE - AS THE CROW FILES

AS THE CROW FILES

TONY JOE WHITE

SONGWRITER: TONY JOE WHITE

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: THE TRAIN I’M ON

LABEL: RHINO WARNER BROS.

GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 1972

The Train I'm On was the fifth album released by Tony Joe White, and the second he released for Warner Brothers. It was produced by Jerry Wexler and Tom Dowd and recorded in 1972 at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

Tony Joe White (born July 23, 1943, Oak Grove, Louisiana, United States) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his 1969 hit "pOLK sALAD aNNIE" AND FOR "Rainy Night in Georgia" which he wrote but was first made popular by Brook Benton in 1970. hE also wrote "Steamy Windows" and "Undercover Agent FOR THE Blues", both hits for Tina Turner in 1989: those two songs came by way of Turner's producer at the time. MARK kNOPFLER, WHO IS A FRIEND OF wHITE. "pOLK sALAD aNNIE" WAS ALSO RECORDED BY eLVIS pRESLEY and tOM jONES.

As the crow flies, baby

Well I ain't too far from you

As the crow flies, baby

Well I ain't too far from you

Yeah, but since I don't have wings

Well I can't get home as fast as I want to

Well, you don't know, baby

I've missed your sweet caress

Well, you don't know, mama

I've missed your sweet caress, oh yeah

Yeah, now when I'm in your lovin' arms

Oh, I'm at my very best

In a dream last night

Well I heard you call my name

In a dream last night

Well I heard you call my name

Yeah, I took it as an omen

And I jumped on the very fast freight train

As the crow flies, baby

Well I ain't too far from you, oh no, no

As the crow flies, mama

Well I ain't too far from you

Yeah, but since I don't have wings

Well I can't get home as fast as I want to.