Name: Twenty Days of Rain
Duration: P00H05M18S
Description: Written by Terri Uvietta-Teasdale and Carey Bowman

Twenty Days of Rain

from Purple Martin Sanctuary by The Coffee Sergeants

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Written by Terri Uvietta-Teasdale and Carey Bowman

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And so it came that twenty days of rain did fall upon this town
Went running down the streets and puddled neath the wheels
left rusting in the mud and vacant in the fields
Withered on the railroad vine
this town left for dead
stood staring from the porches
and scratched its weary head
fell upon your knees arms stretched toward the sky
for you know the fertile ways live but for to die.
Oh where do the railroad men go when the work that came is done
When the track that for years they worked lie wasted in the sun
and the whistle no longer signals
the coming of the dawn
and the station masters voice that called to you is gone.
What of them that road home in midwest afternoon
left for promises in vain that will not be back soon
and what of you my children, there'll be nothing left to see
and no one who remembers and you will not hear from me
For the voice it will fall silent
long after you will care
When the mills stand stark and silent
and the farmland is laid bare
And so it came that twenty days of rain did fall upon this town

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from Purple Martin Sanctuary, released February 1, 2012
Mike Barnett: Keyboards
Spencer Berry: Bass
Carey Bowman: Guitar Vocals
Doug Spinks: Drums, Percussion
Terri Uvietta-Teasdale: Keyboards
Jimi Teasdale: Guitar

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