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Three Marys

from Local Life by Dave Perkins

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Three Marys
Words and Music by Dave Perkins
Dreambox (ASCAP) 2019

A twist of the kaleidoscope
Gave up something new
Ragged figure on the tree line
Shift from green to blue
Across the stony field she ran
Barefoot with cried goodbyes
That field we’d scratched our future on
God Cotton as the prize—Three Marys

She caressed him with oil of patchouli
Sister hates the scent
But he liked it plenty
So, sister must repent
The girls had a brother down in Macon
Whose luck had come undone
Although down and out he was given a stake
A fresh stack of chips in the game—Three Marys . . .

Madeleine and Mary the mother
And, the other the mother of Jack
The sister of Martha and Laz
Who heard his name called and came back
They’re all gone but the ghost lives on
Ragged figure on the tree line at dusk
You’re never quite sure if the figure is for real
It’s hard to know who to trust

Madeleine came like a sailor
In a barque without oars or sail
From St Simon up to Atlanta
With the ghost haunting her trail
Madeleine made for pleasure
A cosmos of skin and sweet breath
Her hair random and wild
And with a passion stronger than death

She cried when her boy got stabbed in the side
Caught on the wrong side of town
So, like a mother she took in the wounded
And that’s why the stories went around
She saw in me something worth saving
After all she had seen how it’s done
She gathered us in, she gave us all names
Made of me something between a lover and a son

They’re all gone but the ghost lives on
A ragged figure on the tree line at dusk
You’re never quite sure if the figure is for real
It’s hard to know who to trust—Three Marys . . .

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from Local Life, released June 12, 2023

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Dave Perkins' musical journey crisscrosses the map of American music. As guitarist, he played bluegrass and swing with Vassar Clements, renegade-country with Jerry Jeff Walker, singer-songwriter pop with Carole King, Americana with Guy Clark, blues-jazz with violinist Papa John Creach, alt-rock with Chagall Guevara, industrial hard-core with Passafist, and a video performance with Ray
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