A duet with San Francisco folk legend (now Portland-man-about-town) Ed Haynes.

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This is a catchy tune that got stuck in my head while I was living in a tiny apartment in Daly City. I had just returned from three months at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival. There is no real Boise girl behind the song, as far as you know. Ed Haynes sings the low voice and I sing the high one, despite the fact that I'm a deep baritone and he's a lilting tenor. There's another version in which we sing the opposite voices. Will Ray plays a Roger McGuinn-like 12 string guitar on this cut.

Boise girl my potato queen
Cute and rural only sixteen
She's so fair she calls me boy
In the desert air she's my spud-town joy

You may have been around the world
But you've not met the Boise girl

Boise girl I was passing through
She's a pearl and feeling quite askew
I was sad I had to go away
I'll soon be glad I'll be back some day

You may have been around the world
But you've not met the Boise girl

I told her I'd be back,
and she knows that's a fact
I'll see her when I can,
for I'm a traveling man

Boise girl life is slow
Just a girl in Idaho
This song I send don't call the law
To my platonic friend la femme du Bois

You may have been around the world
But you've not met the Boise girl