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9) Chicago Morgue - m.litton

On a night so cold I was breathin’ frost
On a Pullman window and feelin’ lost
The winter drizzle had turned to snow
As the midnight train wound down into Chicago
The streetlight wore a halo outside the morgue of St. Jude
Where I’d come for my dead brother, he was only 22

All my memories were scattered ‘n torn
Like the autumn leaves in a winter storm
From that deep dark valley of stone ‘n steel
I recalled our summers out on Cedar Hill
Where we’d played ‘n dreamed for hours
And wrestled beneath the boughs
How the walls of our childhood kingdom
Have so quickly fallen down

Chorus: From the east Montana prairie to that cold Chicago morgue
His face so pale as the linen shroud which draped down to the floor

I watched the smoke from the factories fade
As we crossed the rivers onto the frozen plains
One thousand miles o’er the iron rails
At each road crossing the whistle wailed
Oh Lord, where is the reason, what was he runnin’ from
When the poison left the needle ‘n raced into his blood?
(chorus)

From the cemetery I took the road
That led out to our childhood home
A devil’s claw snatched at my heel
A black crow flew away across the field
The north wind blew through the open door
All the walls were weather-stained
As I watched the sun set behind the hills
Through a broken window pain
(chorus)

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from Bare Bones, released October 2, 2020

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I'm a creekbank ghetto boy. Began my singin' near half a century ago in Canada, then hit northeast, down thru Nashville, Austin, out to Colorado and back to Kansas where I started out and will likely remain. My influences are Leadbelly, Jimmie Rodgers, CCR and The Band, while the juices of a hundred others flavor my music, not to mention the devil himself if that's what it takes to make a song... ... more

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