Running With the Navajo [Kurhajetz​/​Nielsen]

from TUNES 4 SALE by Scott Nielsen

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Running With the Navajo by John Kurhajetz & Scott Nielsen

I wish I could remember what my daddy had to say
But I’ve been gone so long that it don’t matter anyway.
We’re driving back from Gallop and a bitchin’ bar room fight
My eye’s all black and blue, a hell of a night.

There’s Johnny Hawk and George, Jesus and Marie
There’s moonlight on the mountain
What more do I need?
There might be somethin’ out here that I don’t have to know
It’s midnight on the desert; I’m runnin’ with the Navajo
It’s midnight on the desert; I’m runnin’ with the Navajo

Doin’ thirty days for fightin’ down in Grants, New Mexico
I met Johnny Hawk doin’ time for bein’ Navajo
Went with him up to Ship Rock when we got out last May
I help out with the chores I help to pay my way

Chorus: repeat

Bridge:
Jesus, he’s a Zuni, but he’s Johnny Hawk’s best friend
Because he and George and Johnny all grew up in Vietnam
Marie is of Sweetwater folk up near Tuckaho
She tries to tell me what it means to be a Navajo
Chorus: repeat


I pick up my guitar if they ask me to play
They love it when I play “He stopped Loving Her Today”
Just a bunch of people making circles as we go
The sun, the stars, the moon, the Earth
All runnin’ with the Navajo
Chorus:
Johnny Hawk and George, Jesus and Marie
There’s moonlight on the mountain
What more do I need
I’’m sure there’s something out here but it’s something
I don’t know
It’s midnight on the desert and I’m runnin’ with the Navajo

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from TUNES 4 SALE, released November 20, 1990

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Scott Nielsen Bordentown, New Jersey

"I'm a 50's rocker and never was told how to grow up and when to grow old . . ." to quote one of my tunes and it sums me up pretty well. I have been writing songs since the early 60's. In the 70's I wrote children's songs for Captain Kangaroo. I have been a writer and publisher ASCAP member since 1973.

I write across several genres: country, rock and adult alternative. ... more

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