Hickory

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he kissed her once as she leaned on the windowsill
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she'll never love him but knows that her father will
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her fallen fruit is all rotten in the middle but her
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breast never dries when he's hungry

G Am C x2


the money came and she died in her rocking chair
the window wide and the rain in her braided hair
a letter locked in the pattern of her knuckle
like a hymn to the house she was making

G Am C x2

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blind and whistling just around the corner and there's a
G             Am        C
wind that is whispering something
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strong as hell but not hickory rooted

G Am C x2

she kissed him once cause he gave her a cigarette
and turned around but he waits like a turned down bed
and summer left like her walking with another and a
sound of a church bell ringing

G Am C x2

the money came and he died like a butterfly
a buried star and the haze of the city lights
a gun went off and her mother dropped her baby on the
blue feathered wing - we were lucky

G Am C x2

G                     Am             C
blind and whistling just around the corner and there's a
G             Am        C
wind that is whispering something
G                       Am      C
strong as hell but not hickory rooted