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Rock Salt & Nails

from Sake of the Sound by Front Country

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ROCK SALT & NAILS
by Utah Phillips

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By the banks of the river
Where the willows hang down
And the wild birds all warble
With a low, moaning sound
Down in some holler
Where the waters run cold
It was there I first listened
To the lies that you told

Now I lie in my bed
And I see your sweet face
The past I remember
Time cannot erase
The letter you wrote me
Was written in shame
And I know that your conscience
Still echoes my name

Oh the nights are so long
Lord, sorrow runs deep
And nothing is worse
Than a night without sleep
I walk out alone
I look at the sky
Too empty to sing
Too lonesome to cry

If ladies were blackbirds
And ladies were thrushes
I'd lie there for hours
In the chilly, cold marshes
If ladies were squirrels
With high, bushy tails
I'd fill up my shotgun
With rock salt and nails

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from Sake of the Sound, released September 16, 2014

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