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My Father Blues

from No Time To Hide (2009) by Dan Frechette

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My Father Blues

My father he was a rambler
his whole long life he worked and prayed
kept us all before religion
and told us how he had been saved
he worked the fieds in Malo County
pulled his weight for all his sins
and when he told us his life story
with his love of prayer his story begins

When he aged to see his children
grow defeated, squandered and lost
he kept praying for love and mercy
and survival despite the cost
I grew restless and I was rambling
broke many women and saved no soul
I did not pray or see salvation
in all the future my misery stole

That was when I saw my father
in a dream he came to me
he was lying and he was crying
in a bed of kerosene
there was a match held high above him
and he cried with eyes of rage
he said the devil would surely take him
he'd seen his children in an evil cage

And when I woke my father called me
on the phone from a sick bed
as I rushed there the dream was screaming
in the echo of the words he'd said
I met my father and found him sleeping
he was dying
soon in his grave
and as he turned one last time toward me
it was the first time
I'd kneeled and prayed.

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from No Time To Hide (2009), released December 31, 2009

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