Covered by Bruce Springsteen

Joe Grushecky - Billy's Waltz

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Coverinfo

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Songinfo

Billy's Waltz is a song written by Joe Grushecky and released on Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers' 1995 album American Babylon. Bruce Springsteen produced all the album except the title track, and he participated in the recording of most of the songs. He plays mandolin on Billy's Waltz.

Other cover versions

Bruce on the artist

Bruce co-wrote some songs with Joe Grushecky

1945
Another Thin Line
Cheap Motel
Code Of Silence : Code of silence is a song written by Bruce Springsteen and Joe Grushecky and released on Grushecky's 2006 album A Good Life. Bruce Springsteen participated in the recording of this track, sharing lead vocals and playing guitar. Bruce Springsteen released a live version on his 2003 compilation album The Essential Bruce Springsteen and the track won a Grammy Award in 2005.
Dark And Bloody Ground
Homestead
I'm Not Sleeping
Idiot's Delight

He also contributed to other albums with vocals, guitar, harmonica or mandolin

Dark And Bloody Ground : Bruce Springsteen: guitar
Chain Smokin' : Bruce Springsteen: guitar, backing vocals
Never Be Enough Time : Bruce Springsteen: guitar, backing vocals
Labor Of Love : Bruce Springsteen: guitar, mandolin : Springsteen later adapted the mandolin solo from Labor to love virtually note by note for his own Land of hope and dreams
What Did You Do In The War : Bruce Springsteen: guitar
Homestead : Bruce Springsteen: guitar, harmonica, mandolin
Billy's Waltz : Bruce Springsteen: mandolin
Only Lovers Left Alive : Bruce Springsteen: guitar
A Good Life : Bruce Springsteen : vocals, guitar
East Carson Street : Bruce Springsteen : guitar
That's What Makes Us Great : Bruce Springsteen : vocals

Bruce contributed on three albums of Joe Grushecky

1995 : AMERICAN BABYLON

more info : Springsteenlyrics

2006 : A GOOD LIFE

Is a studio album by Joe Grushecky released on 15 Aug 2006 on Schoolhouse Records. It features Bruce Springsteen on four tracks. He shares vocals and plays guitar with Grushecky on Code of Silence, Is she the one and A Good life, and only plays guitar on Searching for my soul. The primary recording sessions for the album took place at studios in West Virginia. However Springsteen, with Toby Scott engineering, worked only from his New Jersey home studio and overdubbed onto Gruschecky's already completed basic tracks.

2009 : EAST CARSON STREET

is a studio album by Joe Grushecky released in 2009. Bruce Springsteen participated in the recording of three of the album's tracks; he plays guitar on East Carson Street, sings duet vocals and plays lead guitar on Another thin line, and plays lead guitar on Broken wheel.

Lyrics

Left her on a mountain, way up on a hill
I promised I'd come back to get her
But I know I never will

Well, I was full of good intentions
But intentions often change
Way up on that mountain
All it ever does is rain
All it ever does is rain
All it ever does is rain
Way up on that mountain
All it ever does is rain

Well my daddy was a miner working twelve-hour shifts a day
On the night there weren't enough to eat I would hear him pray
He'd say, "Help me Sweet Lord Jesus,
Don't let the kids go hungry again"
Way up on this mountain
All it ever does is rain
All it ever does is rain
All it ever does is rain
Way up on this mountain
All it ever does is rain