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Stephen Foster's Ghost

from Tales From PA 6 by Tom Flannery and Bret Alexander

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Stephen Foster’s Ghost

Follow the road / follow the river
Indian nation / Indian giver
Pill-mills laid out / across the track
Crumbling factories / and smoke-stacks
What you remember / and what you see
Is just memory / playing tricks on me
Used to walk but now we ride….up and down and side to side
Used to walk but now we ride….up and down and side to side

In an old village flop house / By the Chelsea Hotel
Where Sid and Nancy both got sick and never did get well
You bleed for what you love and I’ll try and do the same
We’ll share our pennies at the gate and split the picture frame

All glassy-eyed / and shuffling past
from all them promises / that never last
They’ll be no future / for those who stay
And let the past / get in the way
I should be / carved up in stone
Instead of dying here / all alone
I had one more song to sing...but first I gotta pawn this ring
I had one more song to sing...but first I gotta pawn this wedding ring

Pass the past and dollar stores / And all the reservation whores
The do-littles and do-mores / Railroad tracks and meth sores
SSI or join the corps / Dream behind a bedroom door
On your knees to scrub the floor / Tell me what are we fighting for
Brill building and tin pans / Back alleys...waylaid plans
Taxi cabs and Times Square / Ready to take you anywhere
Rumbling for your daily bread / paying with a busted head
Or a needle jabbing at a vein / that ends it all once again

In an old village flop house / By the Chelsea Hotel
Where Sid and Nancy both got sick and never did get well
You bleed for what you love and I’ll do the same
We’ll share our pennies at the gate and split the picture frame

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from Tales From PA 6, released June 21, 2018

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