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Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane 

Cowboy Junkies are a Canadian alternative country/blues/folk rock band. The group was formed in Toronto in 1985 by Margo Timmins (vocalist), Michael Timmins (songwriter, guitarist), Peter Timmins (drummer) and Alan Anton (bassist).

The Junkies first performed publicly at the Beverley Tavern and other clubs in Toronto's Queen Street West, including The Rivoli. Their 1986 debut album, produced by Canadian producer Peter Moore, was the blues-inspired Whites Off Earth Now!!, recorded using an ambisonic microphone in the family garage.

The group's fame spread with their second album, The Trinity Session, recorded in 1987 at Toronto's Church of the Holy Trinity. Their sound, again using the ambisonic microphone, and their mix of blues, country, folk, rock and jazz earned them both critical attention and a cult following. The Los Angeles Times named the recording as one of the ten best albums of 1988.

The band was nominated for Group of the Year at the Juno Awards in 1990 and 1991. In the early 1990s Margo Timmins was named "one of the fifty most beautiful people in the world" by People Magazine. The group has continued to tour North America, Europe, Japan and Australia with extensive North American and European tours following album releases in 2002 and 2004.

In 2008, they released Trinity Revisited in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the original recording of The Trinity Session

The lyrics:

Anyone who's ever had a heart

Wouldn't turn around and break it

And anyone who's ever played a part

Wouldn't turn around and hate it

Sweet Jane, sweet Jane

Sweet, sweet Jane

You're waiting

For Jimmy down in the alley

Waiting there

For him to come back home

Waiting down on the corner

And thinking of ways

To get back home

Sweet Jane, sweet Jane

Sweet, sweet Jane

Anyone who's ever had a dream

Anyone who's ever played a part

Anyone who's ever been lonely

And anyone who's ever split apart

Sweet Jane, sweet Jane

Sweet, sweet Jane

Heavenly widened roses

Seem to whisper to me

When you smile

Heavenly widened roses

Seem to whisper to me

When you smile

La la la la, la la la,

Sweet Jane

Sweet, sweet Jane

Anyone who's ever had a heart

Wouldn't turn around and break it

And anyone who's ever played a part

Wouldn't turn around and hate it

Sweet Jane

You're waiting for Jimmy down in the alley

Waiting there for him to come back home

Waiting down on the corner

And thinkin' of ways to get back home

Sweet Jane

Heavenly wine and roses

Seem to aspire to me

When you smile

Sweet Jane

Cowboy Junkies (Original version by Lou Reed).