Old Crow River

from The Wood and the Spark by Jerry Oliver

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My mama grew up on her daddy's farm on Old Crow River in western Minnesota during the great depression. She told me a lot of stories.
This song has been around for awhile. Spider Poets played it and recorded a demo and I think I played it back with The Galaxy of Howling Dogs who never recorded. Anyway it always creeps back into my sets when I play solo so it is finally getting onto a project.

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Old Crow River

It started down by Old Crow River 
On a dark but moonlit night
lies the heart of a giver
 He took her up a hill to a farm house on the right
 Her brothers came and got her
and stayed up with her that night

He didn’t see it coming
it hit him right between the eyes 
Every sad story just a lining in the sack of lies 
They tried to stop it long ago
like a vampire with a stake
 Bloodshot eyes that never sleep
like a fire they stay awake  

Three different brothers
from one same mother  
They took it all so differently
never could see the other 
They took it across the country
across the ocean to another land
 Face to face with the enemy
they reached out a brothers hand  (

 It ended down by Old Crow River 
On an old dirt road
under a moon tip sliver
 Over a singing bridge
the stars mourn the water  
She came back down the hill
looking for her lover 

(c) 2010, Jerry Oliver, ASCAP

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from The Wood and the Spark, released September 9, 2016
Jerry - DY-62 Alvarez/Yari acoustic, dunlop crybaby wah

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Jerry Oliver Nashville, Tennessee

Jerry Oliver aka Jerpoet tells stories and shares his experience through songs, poems and paintings.

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