This is yet another song about Grand Marais (Alice was the first). Cheryl wrote this one on her drive up to a concert. It seems there is a fair amount of creative juices in that area.
You can see a clip of Cheryl performing this song on YouTube.
- Driving Up to Grand Marais
- Words And Music By
- Cheryl Wheeler
- September 14-15, 2011
- Driving up to Grand Marais
- On a brilliant blue September day
- Voice in the dashboard knows the way
- But that’s all she ever talks about
- Little silver rental car
- Radio on NPR
- 200 miles won’t seem far
- with lines and rhymes to figure out
- I could talk about this quilted sky
- blue and white and gray
- Or summer’s last determined try
- Though the geese are on their way
- I’m like a puppet on a string
- Some song god does his highway thing
- And uses me for practicing
- his wonderful ventriloquy
- It’s the driving game I most endorse
- As I progress from south to north
- Graying clouds holding forth
- A drenching short soliloquy
- I could talk about the rhythms in my head
- this little drummer
- As this shiny, piney two lane winds it’s way
- Well north of summer
- Driving up to Grand Marais
- On a brilliant blue September day
- Voice in the dashboard knows the way
- But that’s all she ever, all she ever
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- (P) October 26, 2011
- Penrod And Higgins Music / ACF Music Group