Jeff Wall - I Saw Your Name

from Round 38, Week 1 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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lyrics

I picked up the paper, and I turned to the back
Chicken's on sale, at the Pic N Pak
The church is having a Yard Sale, If it don't rain
and at the bottom of the page, I saw your name

Once you were mine, yes a long time ago
I asked for your hand, but your daddy said "No"
You went off to college, left me here behind
You made a life in the city, I went to work in the mine

I started seeing Becky, then I made her my wife
We scrimped and we saved, to buy a used double-wide
I heard you married a rich man, a big house on the hill
he couldn't make you happy, so you turned to pills

Sometimes I wonder, about what might have been
If I could do it all over, would I change a thing?
I'm happy here, and I have a good life
that never would have happened, if you were my wife

You divorced your first husband, and your second one too
and I heard that your third, well he walked out on you
he said you needed to choose, between the pills and a home
You chose the pills, and the streets you did roam

I was born in this holler, where I've lived all my life
I like to sit out at night, to hear the trains rolling by
watch my kids play, and chase lightning bugs
with my Becky beside me, giving me a hug

Sometimes I wonder, about what might have been
If I could do it all over, would I change a thing?
I'm happy here, and I have a wonderful wife
here with my Becky, she's the light of my life

I picked up the paper, and I turned to the back
there an old Mopar for sale, 318 with Glass-paks
there by the score, for last nights football game
in the Obituary column, I saw your name

credits

from Round 38, Week 1, released August 29, 2022
Jeff Wall - Vocals and Martin D-18 Acoustic guitar.
Recorded in my bathroom with a Tascam DR-40 handheld recorder
Edited (poorly) with Audacity

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