1970년에 27세에 발표된 앨범으로 존 바에즈의 새로운 방향성을 보여준 앨범. 남편은 징집 거부로 투옥되고 자신은 임신 중이었던 개인적으로 무척 힘들었던 시기의 그녀의 내면 풍경을 담고 있다. 절규나 투정이 아닌 절제된 표현을 통해서 고난의 연대를 헤쳐나가던 한 여성의 모습이 절절하게 다가오는 이 앨범은 컨트리 뮤직 애호가였던 남편을 생각하는 마음을 반영하듯 그 이전의 어느 앨범보다도 컨트리적인 색채가 많이 가미되어 있다. 지금도 공연때 자주 부른다는 자신의 곡 <Sweet sir galahad>외에 롤링 스톤즈의 <No expecyation>,델라니& 보니의 <Ghetto>등을 불러준다.
Sweet Sir Galahad came in through the window in the night when the moon was in the yard. He took her hand in his and shook the long hair from his neck and he told her she'd been working much too hard. It was true that ever since the day her crazy man had passed away to the land of poet's pride, she laughed and talked alot with new people on the block but always at evening time she cried.
And here's to the dawn of their days.
She moved her head a little down on the bed until it rested softly on his knee. And there she dropped her smile and there she sighed awhile, and told him all the sadness of those years that numbered three. Well you know I think my fate's belated because of all the hours I waited for the day when I'd no longer cry. I get myself to work by eight but oh, was I born too late, and do you think I'll fail at every single thing I try?
And here's to the dawn of their days.
He just put his arm around her and that's the way I found her eight months later to the day. The lines of a smile erased the tear tracks upon her face, a smile could linger, even stay. Sweet Sir Galahad went down with his gay bride of flowers, the prince of the hours of her lifetime.
And here's to the dawn of their days, of their days.
Ten years ago, on a cold dark night Someone was killed 'neath the town hall light The people who saw, they all agreed That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me
The judge said, "Son, what is your alibi? If you were somewheres else, then you won't have to die" I spoke not a word, though it meant my life For I'd been in the arms of my best friend's wife
She walks these hills in a long black veil Visits my grave when the night winds wail Nobody knows, nobody sees Nobody knows but me
The scaffold is high, eternity near She stands in the crowd, she sheds not a tear But sometimes at night, when the cold winds moan In a long black veil, she cries o'er my bones
She walks these hills in a long black veil Visits my grave when the night winds wail Nobody knows, nobody sees Nobody knows but me
If you ever lived in a ghetto And maybe at the close of your day On your front porch you hear the sound of a jukebox From the neighbourhood cafe
Well in the noon you may hear the neighbours fussing When a kid breaks a window pane In the night, in the night you may be wakened By the outbound train
Well the rich folks they own the big city And they down us who living the way we do But when you're born a child of a poor man You know the ghetto is the only place for you
Well if there's such a thing as revolution And there will be if we rise to the call When we build we build we build we build the new Jerusalem There won't be no more ghetto, ghetto at all No there won't be no more ghetto, ghetto at all
Chorus Take me back to the place where I first saw the light To my sweet sunny south, take me home Where the mocking birds sing me to sleep every night Oh why was I tempted to roam The path to our cottage they say has grown green And the place is quite lonely around I know that the smiles and the forms that I've seen Now lie in the dark mossy ground Chorus Take me back to the place where the orange trees grow To my plot in the evergreen shade Where the flowers from the river green margin did grow And spread their sweet scene through the glade Chorus
Seven Bridges Road There are stars In the Southern sky Southward as you go There is moonlight And moss in the trees Down the Seven Bridges Road Now I have loved you like a baby Like some lonesome child And I have loved you in a tame way And I have loved you wild Sometimes there's a part of me Has to turn form here and go Running like a child from these warm stars Down the Seven Bridges Road There are stars in the Southern sky And if ever you decide You should go There is a taste of time sweetened honey Down the Seven Bridges Road