From the daily archives:

Monday, August 16, 2004

Jackie

August 16, 2004

Maybe music to come for this:
jackie remembers
goin back fifty years
still the lines and tides
haven’t dried a single tear
she moved here in 80
to find a new life
after raising four kids
dropping out as a wife
jackie found out today
just how much you can’t own
when you spent your last dollar
and you’re still all alone
She used to be a contender
She [...]

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Updated lyrics for “Lincoln told the band to play Dixie.”

August 16, 2004

Still can’t get the music right for this:
The band came together
Ribbons spun to the ground
We stood proud down river
And found peace in Lee’s ground
South of the bent willow
Jenny swore she won’t forget me
And then Lincoln told the band
To play Dixie
Through blue smoke and thunder
In the cane and the vine
The cotton bales drifted
And our chains came [...]

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