All Just To Get To You

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Joe Ely. Joe Ely and Will Sexton, 1995.

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Credits

• Letter To Laredo (Joe Ely, 1995)
  • Joe Ely: vocals, guitar, harmonica
  • Glenn Fukunaga: bass
  • David Grissom: guitar
  • Lloyd Maines: dobro, steel guitar, slide guitar
  • Davis McLarty: drums
  • Chris Searles: percussion
  • Bruce Springsteen: vocals, synthesizer
  • Teye: flamenco guitar

Performances

^{Performed live 7 times.}

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• 2008-04-14 Toyota Center, Houston, TX
• 2003-03-02 Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX
• 2001-10-19 Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ
• 2001-10-18 Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ
• 2000-04-17 Frank Erwin Center, Austin, TX
• 1996-03-17 Mean Fiddler (The), Dublin, Ireland
• 1995-09-14 Viper Room (The), West Hollywood, CA

Released on Album

Released on Letter To Laredo (Joe Ely, 1995).

On The Tracks

ALL JUST TO GET TO YOU

4:16

GUEST: LAREDO

Note: "All Just To Get To You" is a song written by Joe Ely and Will Sexton and first released in 1988 on the self-titled album Will And The Kill (a collaboration by Will Sexton and David Grissom) and later separately recorded for Ely's 1995 album Letter To Laredo. The latter album was recorded at Spur Studios (Joe Ely's home studio) in Austin, TX. Bruce Springsteen contributed to the studio recording, providing back-up vocals. He travelled to Austin around spring 1995 and joined Ely in studio to record his parts.

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^{Studio Sessions: Collaborations}

Lyrics

All Just To Get To You

I have stumbled on the plains
Staggered in the wind
Stood at a crossroad or two
Cried to a river
Swept to the sea
All just to get to you

I have jumped a yellow cab
Hopped a rusty freight
Sang till my lips turned blue
Flown a silver bird
On tops of the clouds
All just to get to you

I ran too hard, I played too rough
I gave my love not near enough
I bled too red, I cried too blue
I beat my fist against the moon
All just to get to you

I have run from Saint Paul
To Wichita Falls
Called you from sunny Baton Rouge
I hocked everything
From my watch to my ring
All just to get to you

I ran too hard, I played too rough
I gave my love not near enough
I bled too red, I cried too blue
I beat my fist against the moon
All just to get to you

From the California Shore
Where the mighty ocean roars
To the lands of the Hopi and the Sioux
Ely and Springsteen: I walked the desert sands
Crossed the Rio Grande
All just to get to you

I have stumbled on the plains
Staggered in the wind
Stood at a crossroad or two
Cried to a river
Swept to the sea
All just to get to you

I ran too hard, I played too rough
I gave my love not near enough
I bled too red, I cried too blue
I beat my fist against the moon
All just to get to you
All just to get to you
All just to get to you
All just to get to you

Visit SpringsteenLyrics.com for other versions of this song.

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