Old Angel Midnight
Written: 1972
Writers: David Jenneson, Alan Hovden
Status: Unrecorded and unpublished.
Genre and Style: Country Blues
Comments: Dave: I wrote this song after a night playing at the Big O when everyone in the audience went home with a woman and I walked home alone. It is probably the saddest yet most spiritually hopeful song I have ever written. It was inspired by the title to the 1966 book of Jack Kerouac’s poetry. It is a beautiful, hopeful ballad that balances the blues of gong home alone late at night with the almost blind faith that someone is watching over you and tomorrow will be better. I still feel an almost mystical connection to this song. I would bet even money that if it were released by an artist like K.D. Lang it would eventually become a standard.
I went out to look for a lover
That sweet someone waiting for me
And she seemed just as far
As the end of the bar
Then I saw just how wrong I could be
Standing inside my rejection
In the streetlight I saw a reflection
Old Angel Midnight
Over me
Old Angel Midnight
Over me
I started to say I was sorry
For the story my life seemed to tell
Just an old lonesome Jack
I’ll be down in the back
With a bottle of cheap Muscatel
Though she knows every unhappy ending
She smiles with the love she is sending
Old Angel Midnight
Over me
Old Angel Midnight
Over me
One more night of walking home lonely
One more night that will never end
But in the dark sky
The tears that she cries
Wash away all my trouble and sin
Your broken heart she will remember
She looks down and smiles, sweet and tender.
Old Angel Midnight
Over me
Old Angel Midnight
Over me.
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