Night Rider’s Lament, by Nanci Griffith.
We’ve previously established that I might play the whole Other Voices, Other Rooms record before the year is through, and this song is one that I regular walk around mumbling, but had no idea until, well, today, what it was called.
Night Rider’s Lament appears to be an old song by someone named Michael Burton, but you might’ve heard Garth Brooks cover it, or you might’ve heard Bill Callahan and Will Oldham cover it much more recently.
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Apparently this isn’t a key I can yodel in!