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Side Of the Road c 2007 Chuck LeMonds

Pick me up from where I lay
I can’t seem to move
my old body just won’t do
what I tell it to

I took a walk on this sunny day
like I do most every day
when a storm arose on the horizon
and took my breath a way

Everybody looks so troubled
everybody looks so scared
but I hear a bird on the fence post
singing in my ear

Young man, young man don’t worry
as you lean into my face
blowing air into my lungs
offering up a saving grace

By the side of the road,
side of the road
I took my last breath,
by the side of the road. 2x Chorus

Cars drive by and some do stop
to see what’s going on
and the rain clouds are moving in
and the bird just sings his song

You can see that I’m an old man
and so today I will not cry
as I took my last breath by this road
and fell in the grass and died.

Now I wish I’d picked wild flowers for my wife of 50 years
and left them on the table in a glass to hold her tears
tell her that I’ve gone to that place that we both know
and I’ll wait under the Linden tree listening for the wind to blow.

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from Album: Mississippi Angel (2008), released September 25, 2008
Chuck LeMonds - acoustic guitar, vocals

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Chuck LeMonds’ music is a kind of Country Soul gumbo of blues, folk, funk and country with poetic lyrics that call to be heard. In times like these, the music and songwriting of Chuck LeMonds has the effect of a soothing balsam for the soul, or that of a plow turning over fresh soil in a field waiting to be planted in spring. ... more

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