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BONUS TRACK: Echo Down the Years (version #3)

from Life Outside the Tent by Walter Ehresman

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--This is an alternate version of a track from the Walter Ehresman album "Well....Let's Look at Your Track Record, Shall We?" (2010). There are three versions of this song: 1) the main version, with Walter singing and doing the flute solo spots on keyboard; 2) a second version, with Patricia Jacobs taking the lead vocal, and Walter doing the string section solo spots on keyboard (appears as a bonus track on the same album); and 3) this third version, with Vic Ramirez taking the lead vocal and Walter doing the solo spots on electric guitar.

See video for main version here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YYRCW4eOxU

See video for version #2 here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UHYxsb0nV8

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Echo Down the Years
(© 2009 Walter Ehresman)

In a time, so far from now, they'll look back on us here
and wonder how a love could grow in such a fallow ground;
But from those dusty pages, there's a light that shines so clear--
that legendary love we found.

Starlight twinkles overhead long after the star is gone;
Ripples cross the ocean to a distant shore at dawn;
Messages in bottles drift off to eyes not yet born--
So our love will echo down the years.

From that time of turmoil, in a land so in decline--
scholars sift through remnants and they try to read the signs;
Looking for some spark to show a moment so sublime--
So our love will echo down the years.

[chorus]
Memories may fade
of ordinary things;
Men and their fortunes fall to ruin.
But your eyes of blue still shine a way to better days,
and prove the best things, in the end, endure.

In that fragile future, for the people that remain,
hope for inspiration is the treasure sought to gain;
Rekindling those hearts to find the strength to start again--
So our love will echo down the years.

credits

from Life Outside the Tent, released January 1, 2012
Walter Ehresman: guitars, 4-string electric/acoustic fretless bass; key percussion, drum machine programming.

Special guests: Vic Ramirez--lead vocals; Max Grossenbacher--piano.

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Walter Ehresman San Miguel De Allende, Mexico

Called "the quintessential Austin DIY artist" by famed local disc jockey Charlie Martin , Walter Ehresman was an eccentric presence in the Austin music scene from the '80s until his 2015 move to Mexico. A prolific songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and recording artist...and a restless musical spirit, always looking for something new, expressed with fearlessly honest, socially-conscious lyrics. ... more

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