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The song title and lyrics reference the Crux constellation, known as the Southern Cross. Billboard called the song a "midtempo minor-keyed saga very much in the tradition of [Stills'] earlier CSN and solo compositions." [7] The term "minor-keyed" presumably related to the song's bittersweet lyrics, as the song itself is performed in a major key.
That Was Before The Cross And The Crown; That's Just His Way (Of Telling Me He Loves Me) The Holy Hills of Heaven Calls Me; Then You Can Walk With Me; There Is No Darkness In Him; There's Nothing My God Can't Do (co-written with Jimmie Davis)(Vestal Goodman) They Didn't Take Him To Calvary; Things Are Gonna Be Better After While
The Southern Cross she leaved the ice, bound up for home that day. She passed near Channel homeward bound, as news came out next day, To say a steamer from the Gulf she noe is on her way. "No doubt it is the Southern Cross, "the operator said, "And looking to have a bumper trip, and well down by the head."
The second single, "Southern Cross", was Stills' partial rewrite of a song by brothers Richard and Michael Curtis. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The song "Daylight Again" evolved out of Stills' guitar-picking to accompany on-stage stories regarding the South in the Civil War , segueing into "Find the Cost of Freedom", which had been the B-side of the " Ohio ...
Northern Lights – Southern Cross is the sixth studio album by Canadian-American rock band the Band, released in November 1975. It was the first album to be recorded at their new California studio, Shangri-La , and the first album of all new material since 1971's Cahoots .
"Ophelia" is a song written by Robbie Robertson that was first released by The Band on their 1975 album Northern Lights – Southern Cross. It was the lead single from the album. It has also appeared on several of the group's live and compilation albums, and has been covered by such artists as Vince Gill and My Morning Jacket.
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The line "I'm going where the Southern crosses the Yellow Dog" is a reference to the earliest known blues lyric. At a train station in Tutwiler, Mississippi in 1903, W. C. Handy heard a Black man playing a blues song on a steel guitar using a knife as a slide. The man repeatedly sang the phrase, "Goin’ where the Southern cross’ the Dog ...