Written By: Tony Carey
© 1990 ED. Antenna / Polygram Songs
Album: "Storyville" - 1990
Back in the winter of '63
i left my woman down in port louis
took a clipper ship to the land of the midnight sun
i had a partner, a little older than me
knew the ways of the company
he said let's take that trip
you should have seen me run
i've got an angel in my pocket tonight
i got twenty-five miles of river to fight
alone in the valley singin' songs with my old friend
the cold north wind
i met the man with the blue-eyed stare
he was workin' down in the delta somewhere
he fought the indians there, and he fought the land
now my old pierre was no one's fool
he knew the ropes and he wrote the rules
and when he died he knew this river
like the back of his old hands
i've got an angel in my pocket tonight
i got twenty-five miles of river to fight
alone in the valley singin' songs to my old friend
the cold north wind
the cold north wind
and when a man says stop up here
he can't take it anymore
he can work until he drop up here
tell me what are we working for
and it gets cold with the northeast wind
it gets colder in my heart
i'd give my soul to see my son again
tell me why are livin' apart
i've got an angel in my pocket tonight
i got twenty-five miles of river to fight
alone in the valley singin' songs to my old friend
the cold north wind
oh yeah, the cold north wind
the cold north wind
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