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Barstool Confession

from Stranger in the Promised Land by Colin Cutler

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If you should find me lying facedown in the gutter,
Don't you bother to save me--
I'll never love another,
But notify my father if you please.
But don’t save me.

But good luck trying to find him--
I ain't seen him since I was three--
If you see him, say I missed him,
But don't you let him cry for me.

He stepped out on the porch to smoke,
And I ain't never seen him again.
Mama cried, and then she lied,
Said he'd gone on vacation--
Lying's a sin.

Three miles down a country road,
There was a house, there was a girl;
Her heart was gold, her eyes were brown,
Her hair was long, black curls
Wrapped round my world.

But good luck trying to find her;
I ain't seen her for a year--
If you see her, say I miss her,
And I'm sorry for her tears.

Cause on the day that I turned twenty, boys,
I went down to the city,
And there I saw a house with red-lipped girls a-plenty,
And I forgot about my Jenny for an hour--
Those lips were sweet,
But, boy, that fruit was sour.

Yesterday I turned twenty-one,
And I said, "Mama, I am gone."
She asked me, "Where you going, son?"
I lied and said, "It won't be very long
On vacation—just like daddy.”

But good luck trying to find me;
You might see me down in hell.
If you see me, don't tell Jenny--
She'll have to bear that burden herself.

So if you find me lying facedown in the gutter,
Don't you bother to save me--
I'll never love another,
But pray to God the Father, if you please.
He might save me.

Only God knows
If He can raise these bones.

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from Stranger in the Promised Land, released March 29, 2019

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Armed with a guitar, banjo, a brace of harmonicas, Colin tells stories of love and loss with characters wide open as a Midwest sky and wild as the mountains, with poetry thick as a Carolina swamp.

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