Songs Without Rhyme : Prose by Celebrated

Noted songwriters, including Johnny Cash, Rosanne Cash, Paula Cole, John Stewart, Suzanne Vega, and Shawn Colvin, take an idea from one of their songs to use as the basis of prose writing.

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction

ix

A Self-Made Man

1

(24)

David Byrne

The Holografik Danser

25

(12)

Johnny Cash

bells, ink, sand and roses

37

(26)

Rosanne Cash

Dear Emily Sarane

63

(10)

Marc Cohn

Bethlehem

73

(8)

Paula Cole

Bonefields

81

(8)

Shawn Colvin

I Walk the Line Revisited

89

(14)

Rodney Crowell

Stuntman

103

(10)

Joe Henry

In the Car

113

(12)

Steven Page

If We Never Meet Again

125

(10)

Jules Shear

Goodbye Sweet Pumpkinhead

135

(16)

Jane Siberry

Johnny Dreams and the Midnight Angel

151

(12)

John Stewart

Ironbound

163

(12)

Suzanne Vega

Letter to Chester Baum

175

Loudon Wainwright III

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Songs Without Rhyme : Prose by Celebrated Songwriters

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