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Laurel Lee

from Goodbye by Scott Pinkmountain

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Her brown eyes were muddied by the silt in the river
The sky was the color of sand
The water cut a path that wound past her door
Her long arms were lanky and tan.

Her hands were as strong as her father’s before her
Her hair folded back in a braid
Her voice was a bell that rang low and clear
No man ever called her his maid.

She lived on her own in a home that she built
A mansion of only one room
Her bed it was narrow, her possessions were few
The table topped with flowers in bloom.

The sun it bore down and dwelt in her dreams
Dreams of a future gone past
That burning bright eye never wavered its gaze
As her days were approaching the last.

Oh Laurel, Laurel-Lee
I’ll always remember your name
Oh Laurel, Laurel-Lee
I wonder if you do the same

Was in the spring of her 21st year
Love wandered into her life
In the form of a man who was willing to give
And willing to take her for a wife.

But sweet Laurel-Lee wasn’t known to be taken
She still had some living to do
She let this man go, though it cut her to the bone
She wasn’t ready and that’s all that she knew.

Oh Laurel, Laurel-Lee
I’ll always remember your name
Oh Laurel, Laurel-Lee
I wonder if you do the same

The man he was lost, he was battered and broken
A greater love he’d never come to know
But in the bottom of his heart it’d always been clear
One day she would up and she’d go

Years have washed by and lives have been led
Many things they have been forgot
Many things have faded and lost all their sense
But there’s a few things that have not.

Oh Laurel, Laurel-Lee
I’ll always remember your name
Oh Laurel, Laurel-Lee
I wonder if you do the same

Oh Laurel, Laurel-Lee
I carry you here in my heart.
Oh Laurel, Laurel-Lee
I count the days we’ve been apart.

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from Goodbye, released November 14, 2019

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Scott Pinkmountain (aka Scott Rosenberg) is an American musician and a writer. Over the past 20 years, he has recorded and performed extensively in the U.S. and Europe with many excellent musicians including Anthony Braxton, Jacopo Andreini, Gino Robair, Sam Coomes, Arrington Di Dionyso, Phil Minton, Jaap Blonk, Pauline Oliveros, Tim Daisy, Nate Wooley, and others. ... more

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