Country Comfort
Recorded by Rod Stewart
Album Gasoline Alley
On the session: Rod Stewart, Martin Quittenton, Ronnie Wood, Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan, Mick Waller
Written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin
Recorded 1970
Released June, 1970
Label Mercury
Rod’s second solo album
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Recorded by Elton John
Album Tumbleweed Connection
On the session: Elton John, Dee Murray, Nigel Olsson
Written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin
Recorded March, 1970 at Trident Studios, London
Released October, 1970
Label Uni
Tumbleweed Connection was Elton John’s third album
Soon the pines will be falling everywhere
Village children fight each other for a share
And the 6:09 goes roaring past the creek
Deacon Lee prepares his sermon for next week
I saw grandma yesterday down at the store
Well she's really going fine for eighty four
Well she asked me if sometime I'd fix her barn
Poor old girl she needs a hand to run the farm
And it's good old country comfort in my bones
Just the sweetest sound my ears have ever known
Just an old-fashioned feeling fully-grown
Country comfort's any truck that's going home
Down at the well they've got a new machine
The foreman says it cuts man-power by fifteen
Yeah but that ain't natural well so old Clay would say
You see he's a horse-drawn man until his dying day
Now the old fat goose is flying cross the sticks
The hedgehog's done in clay between the bricks
And the rocking chair's creaking on the porch
Across the valley moves the herdsman with his torch
Keith Urban’s take on the tune.