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Notes: You were expecting some sappy sentimental thing? Recorded straight up.
lyrics
He showed up in the dead of night, hungry and poor
Leadin’ him a chestnut mare, gaunt and lame for sure
he asked if he could spend the night, the weather cold and harsh
I put his horse up in the livery, and his bags down on the hearth
We struck a deal next morning over coffee and some eggs
I’d shoe his horse for nothin’, he’d work around my place
He wasn’t in no hurry, and that mare could use a rest
It’s how we’d come to do things in the winter out West
First he fixed the steps out front, then he fixed the door
He was handy with a pipe wrench,who could ask for more?
Like the others came before him, with a ladder he did climb
into the loft that was Grandmas’ room, didn’t know what he would find
He could tell that we were fond of her, we’d left everything alone
a rocker by the window that rocked all on its own
an old dog’s bones on the bed, but who would have ever known
and a creaking in the floor boards that sounded like a moan
Last we heard he was on his horse and had galloped out of town
He never said a word to us, out the door he bound
We’d of gladly paid him plenty for the work that he had done
but he got his room and board for free and now his horse could run
She showed up in the dead of night to get out of the sleet
there was a rappin’ on the front door as we were sittin’ down to eat
I looked ‘round at my family, their eyes all filled with jest
Its how we’d come to do things in the winter out west
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from Bed Bones and Bare Blues,
released December 9, 2014
Words and music, Michael Garner
Vocals and guitar, Michael Garner
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