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Drybone Ground

from Finally Home by Kathleen Dunbar

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Drybone Ground
Lyrics by Kathleen Dunbar
Music by Kathleen Dunbar and Gawain Mathews
Copyrighted by Kathleen Dunbar and Gawain Mathews

I finally left on the mornin train
I finally left on the mornin train
I finally left on the mornin train
Ain’t no good man causes that kind of pain

I came from hungry valley, drybone ground
The spring dried up in that drybone ground
Life was nothin with him but the drybone ground
Apple and honeyland is where I’m bound

Chorus
Yeah a bird on the wing is who I be
The fruit and the branch and the blossom tree
One locked door and another with a key
Well the gristle and the bone and the ache is me

He took his fist and he broke my door
He took his fist and he broke my door
He took his fist and he split the board
And he stole my money right outta my drawer

I wept on my scars like rain on dirt
I wept on my scars like rain on dirt
I wept on my scars like rain on dirt
Tried to grow somethin good outta how I hurt

Chorus

Who I meet and where I make my bed
The dreams that I carry half alive, half dead
The devil and the angel talkin in my head
Well the ones that grow are the ones I’ve fed

I did what I could to keep the pain outside
Said I hated life but I know I lied
I had a half-smothered woman livin inside
I’m tired of bein narrow guess I’ll open out wide

Chorus

credits

from Finally Home, released December 13, 2007
Kathleen Dunbar: vocals
Gawain Mathews: guitar, slide guitar, shaker, goothooves
Joe Bagale: percussion, Griswold frying pans

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Kathleen Dunbar San Francisco, California

You may notice my songs are about angels and devils, birth, life, death, about creation and crumbling destruction—the troubles we humans get ourselves into and the choices we make—some of them funky, some of them ending in the dark, others rising into the light of morning. Touching, humorous, spellbinding storytelling—my songs brings you into the irony, the tragedy, and the possibilities of life. ... more

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