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Everett Ruess

from 'Round My Door by Dana and Susan Robinson

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In March of 2002 after performing a house concert in Orem, UT, my host, Andi Davis, gave me a book entitled Everett Ruess, A Vagabond for Beauty. Three days later Sue and I met in California. To her I read out loud rapturous passages from Everett’s hand and began a yearlong process of writing this song to honor his life.

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Everett Ruess

In the spring of nineteen-thirty at sixteen years of age
With restlessness inside I hitched out of L.A.
I hiked upon the coastline and under lofty pines
By the mournful crash of breakers my sleep was deep and fine
I wondered and I wandered out to Yosemite
Shoe leather on the mountains I vagabond for beauty, for beauty

In the year of thirty-one I turned seventeen
And heard the desert calling me to Monument Valley
I tramped behind my burros, Pegasus and Pericles
With my pencils and my paintbrush I went where I pleased
Oh the warm and perfect colors my eyes did behold
And the wild, raging silence my heart did enfold, unresisting

From Kayenta east to Shiprock the scarlet cactus blooms
And the smell of sage is sweet by the Mesa Verde moon
My solitude unbroken I’m roaring drunk with life
All the world a riot of sensual delight
Here in the utter stillness high on a lonely cliffs edge
Where the air trembles with lightning I give the wind my pledge, my pledge

I shall sing my song above the shriek of desert winds
Burned and starved and weary I’ll sing out again
I’ll never leave the grace that haunts me everyday
On the canyon trail I have found my way, my way

November thirty-four I left Escalante town
Something in me knows that I am glory bound
Across the Colorado River to the Arizona side
All that you will know was that I found my ride
My body will expire in the golden burning light
A moth into the flame of a starry, starry night

Here in the utter stillness high on a lonely cliffs edge
Where the air trembles with lightning I give the wind my pledge, my pledge

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from 'Round My Door, released May 10, 2008

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"From Cabot, Vermont – Americana-roots and folk duo, Dana and Susan Robinson combine vivid, songwriting with fiddle tunes, oldtime banjo, elegant melodies, and rich harmony singing."

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