Robert Plant, Harm's Swift Way, Bowery Ballroom

Couldn't find the entire performance of this song posted, so here at it is... performed with Band of Joy at New York City's Bowery Ballroom, September 12, 2010.

Townes Van Zandt's beautiful lyrics:

There is a home out of harm's swift way
I set myself to find.
I promised my love I would
Bring her there,
Then I left my love behind.
The desert was long
The mountain high
The road ran steep and winding.
The promises so easily made
Unbearable yet binding.
Oh me, oh my,
Who's gonna count my time?
Oh me, oh my,
Who's gonna count my time?

Time will go, it never stays
Memory locked in passing.
Try, oh try to cling to her
until she becomes everlasting.
The world's still blue
My word's still true
I feel I'm turning hollow.
She does as she please
If she ever leaves
I'll strangle upon the sorrow.
Oh me, oh my,
Who's gonna mark my time?
Oh me, oh my,
Who's gonna mark my time?

The road is past, tomorrow the sky
Between sometimes is blinding.
Someday soon when I turn to cloud
I will fly on her wings somehow.
Wrapped in the road and filled with above
The ground seems to fade away.
Hold to the earth like a newborn child
Pray she returns someday.
Oh me, oh my,
Who's gonna mark my time?
Oh me, oh my,
Who's gonna mark my time?

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Music

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• Robert Plant
• Band of Joy
• Townes Van Zandt
• Bowery Ballroom

[727mrsrich]

Thank you! Very good video. Can't wait to see him in Ann Arbor, Mi. next month!

[FreedominPA]

Thanks for sharing! (We get to see RP on 1-19-2011 in Pittsburgh)