from Lost Dogs And Mixed Blessings (1995)

Delivered with the bittersweet mixture of laconic wisdom and sardonic fatalism found in few artists but instantly appreciated by those who recognize it. Musically it's in Kris Kristofferson, Greg Brown and Lambchop. On the screen, in Sam Elliott. John Prine embodies it. The gentle expression that's she's all gone to hell but I ain't dead and that beer tastes fine, son. One of my favorite songs.





Does he still think about her
Why there was never really any doubt
Every time he lights a candle
Or blows a candle out
The scientific nature of the ordinary man
Is to go on out and do the best you can

I don't think that you know
That I think you don't know
That old barometer goes crazy baby
Every time it starts to snow
You won't find me walking
Round your part of town
Humidity built the snowman
Sunshine brought him down

This world is full of people
They never seem to fall
Somebody said they seen you
You hadn't changed at all
The fundamental story
Of the contemporary man
Is to walk away and someday understand

I don't think that you know
That I think you don't know
That old barometer goes crazy baby
Every time it starts to snow
You won't find me walking
Round your part of town
Humidity built the snowman
Sunshine brought him down

The scientific nature of the ordinary man
Is to go on out and do the best you can

I don't think that you know
That I think you don't know
That old barometer goes crazy baby
Every time it starts to snow
You won't find me walking
Round your part of town
Humidity built the snowman
Sunshine brought him down

Humidity built the snowman
Sunshine brought him down
Brought him down

May be my favorite Prine album. Lake Marie is a phenomenal song as well.

Yeah.

this is the first prine song i've ever heard, but my band does a cover of his.

I never could get into John Prine, but I love the song, "Jesus the Missing Years", especially this part:

So he grew his hair long and thew away his comb
And headed back to Jerusalem to find mom, dad and home
But when he got there the cupboard was bare, except for an old black man with a fishing rod
He said, "Whatcha gonna be when you grow up?"
Jesus said, "God."

There are people on this board that don't know Sam Stone?

That song IS mouth full of shotgun, toe on the trigger.

"Bruised Orange (Chain Of Sorrow)" is mighty remarkable, too. But I think a lot of his songs are.

i lurv im