Country Comfort
Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin
© 1970 Dick James Music
Soon the pines will be falling everywhere
Village children fight each other for a share
And the 6:09 goes roaring past the creek
Deacon Lee prepares his sermon for next week
I saw grandma yesterday down at the store
Well she's really going fine for eighty four
Well she asked me if sometime I'd fix her barn
Poor old girl she needs a hand to run the farm
And it's good old country comfort in my bones
Just the sweetest sound my ears have ever known
Just an old-fashioned feeling fully-grown
Country comfort's in a truck that's going home
Down at the well they've got a new machine
The foreman says it cuts man-power by fifteen
Yeah but that ain't natural well so old Clay would say
You see he's a horse-drawn man until his dying day
Now the old fat goose is flying cross the sticks
The hedgehog's done in clay between the bricks
And the rocking chair's creaking on the porch
Across the valley moves the herdsman with his torch
Elton John Sources:
- March 1970 Recording
Session at Trident Studios, Soho
London
- June 25 1970 Radio recording
session at Aeolian Hall, BBC London Studio 2
- July 2 1970 BBC Radio broadcast of
June 25 session Stuart Henry, Sounds Of The
Seventies
- August 13 1970 BBC recording
session at Playhouse Theatre, Northumberland Avenue, London
- August 25 1970 US Concert at The
Troubadour Club, West Hollywood CA (First US concert appearance)
- August 26 1970 BBC radio broadcast
on the Sounds Of The Seventies show
- October 30 1970 UK album
Tumbleweed Connection (DJM DJLPS 410)
- November 1970 US concert at the
Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino CA
- November 13 1970 US concert at the
Fillmore West, San Francisco CA
- November (15) 1970 (incorrectly reported)
US concert at the Civic
Auditorium, Santa Monica CA
- November 17 1970 US radio WABC-FM
Live Broadcast, New York City NY (source of the 17-11-70 / 11-17-70
album)
- November 21 1970 US concert at the
Fillmore East, New York City NY
- March 3 1971 UK concert at the
Royal Festival Hall, London
- May 28 1971 US concert at Curtis
Hixon Hall, Tampa FL
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