Monday, May 4, 2015


Near the Graveyard Where Chestnuts are Gone

River valley farm fields
Early spring time
Cus' you can't help but stare

You drown the engine 
To the soft purr of barely goin'
Hardly anyone wants to get somewhere
In this place nobody knows

You broke my heart when we were
Barely grown
But baby somehow I could see
So I begged you not to leave 
One day, honey, could we lay
Beneath the stones?

Hand in hand, down the street 
Once again, around the bend
Sometimes these days you simply 
Turn to me and grin
We're too damn old to need to 
Pay someone to watch a babe
So our joints can creak us all the way
To our same old place for a date

I know I'll never be as good
As you were dreamin'
One day you could be in love 
But the stars are stuck in 
The same damn constellation
As when we fought in Paris
As when we kissed in Louisville
I'm sorry you're on the ground here 
With me... instead of far above

You broke my heart, love
When we were barely grown
But baby, somehow I could see
So I begged you not to leave
One day, love, could we lay
Beneath the stones

Your Mamma used to look
At me and sigh
She knew that she had nothin' much
To worry with this guy
I guess she asked you why you were
Willing to waste your beauty 
On a fool
Man it took a long long time
To prove the cruel
Way I begged you home

You broke my heart, love
When we were barely grown
But baby, somehow I could see
So I begged you not to leave
One day, love, could we lay
Beneath the stones

Guess I'll finish my water
Honey, you done with your wine?
We'll take the long way home
Near the graveyard where Chestnuts are gone
You know I love it when you scream
Big ole kiss... from the same
Son of a Bitch,
Who couldn't fool you in his dreams

The woods is reachin'
Straight over the road
Through the winter trees
We can see the fog on the gravestones
Somehow I got to spend a little time in this life
With a stranger who one day was called my wife
We'll be there soon, but hon, not alone

You broke my heart, love
When we were barely grown
But baby, somehow I could see
So I begged you not to leave
One day, love, we will lay
Beneath the stones

You broke my heart, love
When we were barely grown
But baby, somehow I could see
So I begged you not to leave
One day, love, we will lay
Beneath the stones




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