This is a song about being homesick. Cheryl was born and raised in Timonium Maryland, outside of Baltimore. She moved to New England in 1976. She thought she was getting used to the northern climate. One day, however, she got a bad case of homesickness and a really great song. You can watch a live performance of Northern Girl on YouTube.
This song was one of a few songs that spontaneously came to Cheryl. She describes sitting on the couch and playing the song from start to finish, pretty close to the final version. That doesn't happen to her very often, but when it does, the results are usually great. Arrow is another song that came to her that way.
- Northern Girl
- Words And Music By
- Cheryl Wheeler
- Why are the rain clouds comin', pourin' down on me?
- Why can't the north wind turn and blow the other way?
- Where has the sunshine gone? Oh I can barely see,
- This northern rain is fallin', and home is callin' me.
- Sun in a southern sky is all I need to see.
- Watchin' a small bird fly, above the fields and me
- Walkin' a dusty road and there's nothin' 'round the bend
- Except those golden tones of goin' home again.
- Goin' home - goin' home
- Muddy old river flowin' 'neath a fallen tree,
- Sunflower garden growin' twice as tall as me
- Sister and father hear me, what I've learned today
- I ain't no northern girl, I've been too long away.
- Goin' home - goin' home
- On a starry old summer evenin'
- Hummin' warm and sweet
- I hit the road believin' I was bound to leave
- It took a new england sky to teach me how to say
- I ain't no northern girl, I've been too long away
- I ain't no northern girl, I've been too long away
- This ain't no northern song - I've been too long away.
- 3/30/80
- (P) May 27, 2003
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