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9) Prairie Ballad - m.litton

When I was yet a little boy I asked my daddy one day
“Oh say what are those old wallows
In the pasture where the water stays?”
“Come near, my son, you’ll not believe
The sad history of these plains
For the buffalo roamed a million fold
In one decade all were slain
The hunters came in iron horses with big 50s ‘n skinnin’ knives
Sold the furs in eastern cities ‘n left the bones to dry
But listen, son, the wind carries their song
It’s a short time they’ve been gone
To the living earth all is memory
She’s a greater beast than we…”

The seasons passed though I weren’t much older
When one morning we found him dead
I cried to my mother, “Oh why did he die?”
She held me close ‘n said
“His heart was afire and violent storms
Were tossing through his mind
He lost his soul to the bandit ghost in the ruins of the night
Our land was poor and we hadn’t much hope
One day you’ll understand
How the great bear dies when he leaves his home
And so easily dies a man
But listen, son, the wind carries his song
It’s a short time he’s been gone
To the living earth all is memory
She’s a greater beast than we…”

From what I’ve seen I must own it seems we live by words
Though we only speak what we’ve been told
Like puppets made of wood
On the browning page of some old day
We all promised to be brave
But we were the sons of the totem then
Now we rod our father’s grave
As history blows a wind of grief, her nonbelieving rhyme
“There ain’t much truth, there ain’t much glory
It’s enough you live and die”
And I listen now as the wind carries my song
In a short time I’ll be gone
To the living earth all is memory
She’s a greater beast than we…

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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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