Jefferson's Barn

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Morning came through the Jefferson's barn to lift my head from the hay, still blood on my hands, stains on my arms, the love I'd thrown away

Once had me a dove for wife, mother of my only child.
A woman so sweet, a love so ripe, land for a quarter mile.

Well, spring had gone and the crops won't grow but enough to keep the family fed.
Well we just got word from back in town of the stones in the rivers out west.

So I headed out in 49 toward that setting sun.
The devil found me and I found no gold and it seems that the west had won.

I headed home to see my kin, all i carried was my shame.
What got me home was the love I'd missed, the love I'd thrown away.

When I got home my wife was dead, wrapped in her arms my son.
Two bullets sent through both their heads and a note from Jefferson.

it read

No crops have grown and a years gone by and stealing was your son, caught him in the barn with my Mabel Lee. Now his time in hell's begun.

Morning came through the Jefferson's barn to lift my head from the hay, still blood on my hands, stains on my arms, the love I'd thrown away

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from Quicksand Marching Band, track released July 30, 2011

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