St Louis Elegy

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I look at the sky

I see an airplane as it flies

Is this the way they said Jesus came?

Gone through St Louis

Gone straightaway

And I hear the winter will cut you quick

If tears were liquor I’d have drunk myself sick

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Woman, are you home?

A house of cards, a frame of bones

Here I am earthly bound

Said Hallelujah I’m going down

And the river Jordan is deep and wide

I think I see forever across on the other side

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I look at the sky

I see a nightbird as it flies

Over the old bent cherry trees

Shivering in a row

Down here the winter will cut you quick

These tears are liquor and I’ve drunk myself sick

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And the dead of winter will cut you quick

These tears are liquor and I’ve drunk myself sick

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