ROCK SALT AND NAILS - TYLER CHILDERS – look for Taylor Demp on
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By the banks of the
river Where the willows hang
down And
wild birds they warble
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With a low moaning sound Way down in the hollow, Where the river runs cold
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It was
there I first listened to the lies that you told.
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Now I lie on my back, and
I see your sweet face. The past I re member,
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Time can’t erase And the letters you wrote me they were written in shame
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And I know that your
conscience, Still echoes my name
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Now if the ladies were
blackbirds if the ladies were
thrushes I’d lie there for
hours, in the
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chilly cold marshes And if the women were
squirrels with them high
bushy tails,
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I’d load up my shotgun With rock salt and nails I’d fill up my shotgun with rock
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salt and nails.