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Eagle Breeder's Waltz
Composer: Robert Hunter


One of a number of lyrics sent to David Nelson for use with the David Nelson Band. Nelson referred to the song in an interview with Blair Jackson in 2009:
So we were planning to go there and hole up and rehearse some new material, and right then, Hunter didn't know anything about it, he happened to be on one of his [writing] rolls and he went up to his cabin on the Russian River and he sent me an email. 'I'm up at the cabin and doing some writing. What do you think of this?' It was the lyrics to something called 'Eagle Breeder's Waltz.' I read over it and I realized that it was a thing between him and me: 'Let's do the Eagle Breeder's Waltz, like we did in '65/ Revive our spirits with smelling salts and act like we're still alive.' I thought it was pretty cool, so I went to work printing out things and trying to record something.
The song was first performed by the David Nelson Band in 2016. There are no officially released recordings of the song.