From the recording Our Lady Of Grace
Lyrics
<p>OUR LADY OF GRACE</p>
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<p>I had to take a detour off of Highway 52</p>
<p>It brought me through a ghost town along Lakeview Avenue</p>
<p>No sign of a lake or pond whichever way I turned</p>
<p>They must have used the water up</p>
<p>The day the theatre burned</p>
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<p>A cold one at Bud’s Tavern can’t be had at any price</p>
<p>The steeple at Saint Jude’s is now a pigeon paradise</p>
<p>Stores and homes all boarded up</p>
<p>With weathered knotty pine</p>
<p>The town is a finished portrait of a long decline</p>
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<p>Chorus</p>
<p>But someone mows the grass</p>
<p>And trims the weeping willow tree</p>
<p>About a dozen graves or so</p>
<p>From another century</p>
<p>Strange how it’s the only sign of life</p>
<p>In that place</p>
<p>In the little cemetery</p>
<p>At Our Lady Of Grace</p>
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<p>On a gravel side road overgrown with grass and weeds</p>
<p>There’s a store still advertising sacks of oats and seeds</p>
<p>“Yes we’re open” reads an old sign crumbling in the sun</p>
<p>There must be a ghost inside whose work is never done</p>
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<p>Chorus</p>
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<p>I got out of my car because the urge was very strong</p>
<p>To let the August sunshine cook my head a bit too long</p>
<p>Stretched out on porch swing in a semi-conscious haze</p>
<p>And heard the townsfolk telling me of the good ole days</p>
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<p>Chorus</p>