EMMYLOU HARRIS - TULSA QUEEN

TULSA QUEEN

EMMYLOU HARRIS

SONGWRITERS: Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: LUXURY LINER

LABEL: WARNER BROS

GENRE: COUNTRY

YEAR: 1977

Luxury Liner is an album by country music artist Emmylou Harris, released in 1976. The album was Harris' second successive #1 country album on the Billboard Music Charts, although, unlike the preceding Elite Hotel, there were no #1 hits from this album. The highest charting singles were the #6 Chuck Berry cover "(You Never Can Tell) C'est la Vie" and the #8 "Making Believe" (originally a hit for Kitty Wells). However, the album may be better known for including the first cover version of Townes Van Zandt's 1972 song "Pancho and Lefty", which subsequently became Van Zandt's best-known composition.

Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter and musician. She has released many popular albums and singles over the course of her career, and she has won 14 Grammys, the Polar Music Prize, and numerous other honors, including induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. In 2018 she was presented the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

I heard the train

In the Tulsa night

Calling out my name

Looking for a fight

She's come a long, long way

Got a longer way to go

So tell me how a train from Tulsa

Has got a right to know

She sings a song

So sad and high

And the Tulsa Queen

Don't ever lie

And she don't care where she goes

Don't care where she's been

And the Tulsa Queen ain't crying

'Cause I won't see you again

And I want to ride

Like a Tulsa Queen

Calling out to you

As she calls to me

As far away from Tulsa

As these ten wheels can be

Lately I speak

Your name too loud

Each time it comes up

In a crowd

And I know it when I do

The Tulsa Queen and you

Are gone...