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Trees of Haddonfield

from Local Life by Dave Perkins

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Trees of Haddonfield
Words and Music by Dave Perkins (July 4, 2014)
Dreambox (ASCAP)


Christmas was the hook we hung the year on
The one and only day you could count on
Windows sweat from the oven’s heat, mom sang and the air was sweet
Streetlamps lit the snow—the night was cold but who would know
Chapel church bells pealed
In the trees of Haddonfield
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Three kings, camels and sheep in the neighbors’ yard
While shepherds watched their flocks by night, Dot and Bill cut cards
Then we heard the word—a star fell down
Said an angel’s gone to ground
Christmas never came
Carol singers stayed away
A thief in shadow steals
Through the trees of Haddonfield
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Sandy was the first to go, the first to catch our breath away
The first time the shadow passed so close
In a muscle car whose bones were soft
Just a cardboard box with its top torn off
Broken on the wheel
The fragile flesh revealed
Serpent struck her heel
And the trees of Haddonfield
______________________________________________________________
The 4th of July blew on by like an ambulance
Nothing more to say, summer staggered away in a dog-day trance
No use watching for a wise men’s star
The one that tells you where you are
But, that’s the one you never see
Down below the canopy
(Where) You keep your secrets sealed
‘neath the trees of Haddonfield
________________________________________________________________In the November rain, they’ll hang big candy canes along King’s Highway
Brass in hand, the salvation band on the corner will play
“Sleep in heavenly peace . . . ”—All you loves that lay buried in songs
All you names made famous with guitars and rhymes
Who we call to again and again across time
As if what’s gone can rise
As if the love survives guarded like a shield
By the trees of Haddonfield

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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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