FROM SMALL THINGS (BIG THINGS ONE DAY COME)

Live 02 Dec 2004 version

[Joe Grushecky (spoken intro):] Bruce is gonna sing one for you.
[Bruce Springsteen (spoken intro):] A little slap on this one if you got... this is a song Dave Edmunds cut, Dave Edmunds, British rocker, cut a while back...

At sixteen she quit high school to make a fortune in the Promised Land
She got a job behind the counter in an all-night hamburger stand
She wrote faithfully home to mama, "hey mama don't you worry none"
From small things, mama, big things one day come
Hey!

It was late one Friday, he pulled in out of the dark
He was tall and handsome, first she took his order then she took his heart
They bought a house on the hillside, where little feet soon would run
Small things, mama, big things one day come

Yeah but love is fleeting, it's sad but it's true
When your heart is beating, you don't wanna hear the news
She packed her bags and with a Wyomie County real estate man
She ran down to Tampa in an "El Dorado Grande"
She wrote back home, "dear mama, life is just heaven in the sun
Small things, mama, big things one day come"
Let's take it now!

Well she killed Johnny ??? road
And when they caught her all she said was she couldn't stand the way he drove
Back home lonesome Johnny prays for his baby's parole
He waits on the hillside where the Wyomie waters roll
At his feet and almost grown now, a blue-eyed daughter and a handsome son
Small things, mama, big things one day come
Yeah from small things, mama, big things one day come
From small things, mama, big things one day come

Info

The above lyrics are for the live 02 Dec 2004 performance of FROM SMALL THINGS (BIG THINGS ONE DAY COME) at Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh, PA, during the "Flood Aid '04" benefit concert. The song was played with Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers.

Promotional poster for the 02 Dec 2004 show at Heinz Hall, Pittsburgh, PA

Ticket stub for the 02 Dec 2004 show at Heinz Hall, Pittsburgh, PA

Handwritten setlist for the 02 Dec 2004 show at Heinz Hall, Pittsburgh, PA

Bruce Springsteen and Joe Grushecky & The Houserockers headlined a benefit concert on 02 Dec 2004 at Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh, PA, for Western Pennsylvanians who suffered damage from Hurricane Ivan in September 2004. Billed "Flood Aid '04", the benefit was put together by Joe Grushecky.

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