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in my hometown they sell postcards of a lynching
my old man was there
in the night i find him smiling
waving his winchester in the air
like the country crawling westward
he was young and hungry in those days
like limestone and gypsum the past is still mixed up in our clay

i was born into a big house
my daddy owned the land above the oil
he'd say nothing made him prouder
than the woman and the children that he spoiled
lost his mansion to a kerosene fire
lost my mother to disease
i drifted like the ashes from the blaze that brought him crashing to his knees

see those stars above the heartland
i've crossed this country just as many times
my clothes became a costume
my voice became a choir multiplied
my song went on without me
i felt myself dissolve into the land
but if i can be redeemed i believe the soil also can

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from The Uncounted Blue Jillions, released July 19, 2019

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