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Danny Django: Music

St. Ellen's Lament

(Danny Django)
Verse 1:
It was rainin’ with the strangeness of a dream
You and your five children just got home
From the funeral at the cemetery
And so you lay down your weeping weary babies to bed
Put your head in your hands and say
“What do I do now that he’s dead?”
The money’s gone
To a cure that never came
You decide to fight the poverty and the shame
And make your life a sacrifice in his name

Chorus:
So now you shine on
Like the moon and like the sun
You shine on through your children and there’s and me
And those that are yet to come
You shine on
Because you rose above the fall
You’re a wildcard and an underdog
And the Queen Of Love To All
And everyone


Verse 2:
So you woke up early each day to walk five miles each way
To the other end of town
To work away your ten hour days
In a factory sewing gloves
The piece-work doesn’t really pay
Un-employment was not enough
You couldn’t even afford to ride the bus
And none of the good town folk
Ever noticed you that much
Your kin never really kept in touch
I guess no one could see that
You were down on your luck

Chorus:

Verse 3:
As ten years passed
Your children were mostly raised
All except for one but she was close to coming of age
And so you sold the farm
For a nice little home near the town
But there was something there you couldn’t have known
The seed of your life was soon to be sewn
I can’t help but think
That maybe it was the heartache in your soul
That made you go early
To the place that we must all go
But I speak for us all when I say that I know
That You…

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