Across The Great Divide Lyrics - Other Voices, Other Rooms - Nanci Griffith

I've been walkin' in my sleep 

Countin' troubles 'stead of countin' sheep 

Where the years went, I can't say 

I just turned around and they've gone away 

I've been siftin' through the layers 

Of dusty books and faded papers 

They tell a story I used to know 

And it was one that happened so long ago 

It's gone away yesterday 

Now I find myself on the moutainside 

Where the rivers change direction 

Across the great divide 

Now, I hear the owl callin' 

Softly as the night was fallin' 

With a question and I replied 

But he's gone across the borderline 

It's gone away yesterday 

Now I find myself on the moutainside 

Where the rivers change direction 

Across the great divide 

The finest hour that I have seen 

Is the one that comes between 

The edge of night and the break of day 

It's when the darkness rolls away 

And it's gone away yesterday 

Now I find myself on the moutainside 

Where the rivers change direction 

Across the great divide 

And it's gone away yesterday 

Now I find myself on the moutainside 

Where the rivers change direction 

Across the great divide