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Welcome

take your shoes off at the door

I’ll take your coat

your hair smells refreshened
from the ozone
and
remnants of soap
lathered and rinsed out
in the rain shower

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The Chapel on the Hill

We got wed there one cold rainy June

Your bouquet flew in the air like a hawk

Derelict now, mossy gravestones its guards

We've got old, and worse, rarely talk

 

The chapel on the hill, the chapel on the hill

Ghostly with echoes of lost joys and sorrow

The chapel on the hill, the chapel on the hill

They're pulling it down tomorrow

 

Three boys we raised, they're all ab...

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