The Sky / Derroll Adams / Banjo cover

The Sky is a song written by, Derroll Adams. The Mountain, The Valley, Portland Town and Memories are other great songs that he wrote. In the intro and long outro I talk a little about Derroll Adams. Alan Taylor and Seth Mountain have done excellent covers of this song. This is my cover of one his Derrolls incredible song, The Sky. Performed clawhammer style on the mountain banjo.

The Sky - lyrics
Words and music by Derroll Adams
Performed by Dan D. Dirges
Banjo Tuning - dGEGB

There’s a time when the truth is bad
And that’s so very sad I know
When I was a kid like a mother’s sigh
I used to hear the freight trains cry
They kept me on the go you know
Even now I stop to hear
The big freight trucks a-shifting gear
They tell me what I want to know you know

There’s a time when the past is past
Filled with things that never last I know
The freight trains’ lonesome whistles cry
Becomes a song but there’s the sky
Spring always comes again again
That old car it was Christmas time
Filled with kids and they all were crying
They had no place to go I know I know

There’s a time when you face your soul
To find if you are true and whole you know
I remember your face so clear
Sometimes it seems I hear
The softness of your sigh
But I remember another time
Autumn’s here and summer’s dying
You asked me not to go

There’s a time when you face the sky
To find if you are here and why you know
The freight trains far away cry
Or on the ground when the dew’s not dry
And you hear a rooster crow
Just like a morning star
That you see so far
Through the clear sky the sky

© Words and music: Derroll Adams
(as it appears on the album Feelin' Fine)

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Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
0:41 - Song starts
5:21 - Song ends and the very long outro begins. feel free to skip it, I basically ramble on about how great Derroll Adams is.

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