Biography:
Gretchen Peters (born November 14, 1957 in Bronxville, New York) is an American singer-songwriter in the folk/country genre. An accomplished song-writer, she won the Country Music Association Song Of The Year award in 1994 for "Independence Day", a hit at the time for Martina McBride. She was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014.
Though born in New York, Peter's was raised in Boulder, Colorado, and then moved to Nashville in the late 1980s.
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Other songs:
- Billy 4
- Black Ribbons
- Blackbirds
- Blessing In Disguise
- Border Town
- Careful How You Go
- Child Of Mine
- Circus Girl
- Dark Angel
- December Child
- Drowning In You
- Everything Falls Away
- Five Minutes
- Germantown
- Ghost
- Guadalupe
- Hello Cruel World
- I Aint Ever Satisfied
- I Dont Know
- I Was Looking For You
- I Wonder As I Wander
- Idlewild
- If Heaven
- If I Had A Gun
- In The Bleak Midwinter
- Independence Day
- Jubilee
- Lilies Of The Field
- Love And Texaco
- Love That Makes A Cup Of Tea
- Northern Lights
- On A Bus To St Cloud
- On A Bus To Stcloud
- Over Africa
- Paradise Found
- Picasso And Me
- Prairie In The Sky
- Pretty Things
- Revival
- Saint Francis
- Song For A Winters Night
- Souvenirs
- Sunday Morning Up And Down My Street
- The Aviators Song
- The House On Auburn Street
- The Matador
- The Way You Move Me
- This Town
- This Used To Be My Town
- To Say Goodbye
- Tomorrow Morning
- Truckstop Angel
- Waitin On Mary
- Waiting For Amelia
- Waiting For The Light
- Waiting For The Light To Turn Green
- When All You Got Is A Hammer
- When You Are Old
- When You Comin Home
- Wild Horses
- Woman On The Wheel
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Gretchen Peters - Lilies Of The Field
CAPO: 4th Fret
INTRO: C
F
Billy had a yearning and an ache inside
C
So he bought himself a Harley and he learned to ride
F
Purred just like a baby, low and sweet and true
C
And he aimed it at the place where the blacktop turns to blue
F
Penny was a waitress down in Tupelo
C
They said that she was trouble, I don't really know
F
But something in her spirit touched something in his soul
C
And he took her to his heart and he never let her go
G Am F
She said, "If I had an ounce of courage, I would leave this town
G
Life'll get you nowhere 'til they put you in the ground"
CHORUS:
C
But the lilies of the field, they neither reap nor sow
F
I wanna buy me a Winnebago and a map of Mexico
C F
Go rolling down the highway where life's secrets are revealed
C F C
Dancing in the wind like the lilies of the field
F
Penny had a secret growing deep inside
C
And she'd never known a man to love another's child
F
Somewhere west of Tucson she just ran out of time
C
So she made a quick decision and she made him walk the line
G Am F
She said, "If you had an ounce of courage, you would take a stand
G
Don't nobody argue with a pistol in your hand"
CHORUS:
C
Oh, the lilies of the field, they neither reap nor sow
F
I wanna buy me a Winnebago and a map of Mexico
C F
Go rolling down the highway where life's secrets are revealed
C F C F C
Dancing in the wind like the lilies of the field
F
Billy pleaded guilty, ninety-nine to life
C
Penny disappeared into the desert night
F
Then she took his pistol out on Highway 2
C
And she aimed it at the place where the blacktop turns to blue
G Am F
She said, "If you had an ounce of courage, you would leave this town
G
Life'll get you nowhere 'til they put you in the ground"
CHORUS:
C
Oh, the lilies of the field, they neither reap nor sow
F
I wanna buy me a Winnebago and a map of Mexico
C F
Go rolling down the highway where life's secrets are revealed
C F
Dancing in the wind like the lilies of the field
C F C
Like the lilies of the field
CAPO: 4th Fret
INTRO: C
F
Billy had a yearning and an ache inside
C
So he bought himself a Harley and he learned to ride
F
Purred just like a baby, low and sweet and true
C
And he aimed it at the place where the blacktop turns to blue
F
Penny was a waitress down in Tupelo
C
They said that she was trouble, I don't really know
F
But something in her spirit touched something in his soul
C
And he took her to his heart and he never let her go
G Am F
She said, "If I had an ounce of courage, I would leave this town
G
Life'll get you nowhere 'til they put you in the ground"
CHORUS:
C
But the lilies of the field, they neither reap nor sow
F
I wanna buy me a Winnebago and a map of Mexico
C F
Go rolling down the highway where life's secrets are revealed
C F C
Dancing in the wind like the lilies of the field
F
Penny had a secret growing deep inside
C
And she'd never known a man to love another's child
F
Somewhere west of Tucson she just ran out of time
C
So she made a quick decision and she made him walk the line
G Am F
She said, "If you had an ounce of courage, you would take a stand
G
Don't nobody argue with a pistol in your hand"
CHORUS:
C
Oh, the lilies of the field, they neither reap nor sow
F
I wanna buy me a Winnebago and a map of Mexico
C F
Go rolling down the highway where life's secrets are revealed
C F C F C
Dancing in the wind like the lilies of the field
F
Billy pleaded guilty, ninety-nine to life
C
Penny disappeared into the desert night
F
Then she took his pistol out on Highway 2
C
And she aimed it at the place where the blacktop turns to blue
G Am F
She said, "If you had an ounce of courage, you would leave this town
G
Life'll get you nowhere 'til they put you in the ground"
CHORUS:
C
Oh, the lilies of the field, they neither reap nor sow
F
I wanna buy me a Winnebago and a map of Mexico
C F
Go rolling down the highway where life's secrets are revealed
C F
Dancing in the wind like the lilies of the field
C F C
Like the lilies of the field
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