"The Midnight Road to Duluth" was the first and
only song I wrote in response to a novel. Most of my songs are about
my own experiences. But somehow The Big Rock Candy Mountain
(Wallace Stegner) really affected me as if were something I had
experienced in another life or maybe there was just a sentiment
in it that I deeply connected to. That story created in me a swelling
of yearning for family unity and survival that I guess I thought
I could work out in the form of a song. It's the kind of story you
would want to sing about - like I really NEEDED a soundtrack for
the story in my lonely experience of reading it.
Midnight Road to Duluth
by Monica Ann Crigler
Copyright © 2001 BMI
When we came to this town
You said, "I know what you’re thinking
That this time we’ll settle down
No more running whiskey"
And here we are packing our bags again
When we were newly wed
You said we’d build a house to live in
But now we’ve got nothing but Feds
In the mirror of our new Lincoln
And there’s no way out but down this road
So here I am caught in the midst
No chance to grow a garden
No place to raise the kids
No house to grow old in
And it’s much too late for me to go back home
Because my name’s all over town
I’m the wife of a bandit
One day the prohi’s gonna take you down
I won’t be able to stand it
You promised me you’d quit this long ago
And you said, "Don’t follow me around
If you don’t like where I’m headed
I will always be this proud
One day you’ll regret it
I’ll never be the man that you deserve"
But still I follow you
No matter where we are going
Down the midnight road to Duluth
The whiskey overflowing
So I’ll pack up all my dreams
Once and for all |
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