Nanci Griffith: "Across The Great Divide" Lyrics

I've been walkin' in my sleep

 Countin' troubles 'stead of countin' sheep

 Where the years went I can't say

 I just turned around and they've gone away

 

 I've been siftin' through the layers

 Of dusty books and faded papers

 They tell a story I used to know

 And it was one that happened so long ago

 

 Chorus:

 It's gone away in yesterday

 Now I find myself on the moutainside

 Where the rivers change direction

 Across the Great Divide

 

 Now, I hear the owl a-callin'

 Softly as the night was fallin'

 With a question and I replied

 But he's gone across the borderline

 

 Chorus

 

 The finest hour that I have seen

 Is the one that comes between

 The edge of night and the break of day

 It's when the darkness rolls away

 

 Chorus Twice