Amarillo #2

from April, Texas by Wartime Blues

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Verse 1
Amarillo mid-afternoon
the sky’s filled with the memory of a girl
twirling in a J.C. Penney’s dress at the tri-state rodeo

You and I, Jim, sipping pounders of Coors Light
taking turns in the best of that girl’s light
as the sound of cicadas rises above us

Bridge A
Friends, they went off to college
Amarillo
And we found work out on the Llano
Estacado

Verse 2
Autumn felt like a distant moon
winter blanched out red as the afternoon work
pulling yards of barbed wire across a potter’s field

But the pay was decent well enough to afford
an Omnibus and five months in Guadalajara
chasing the phantoms of our youth

Bridge B
Through an arroyo blacked out with rain
a wet flask of mescal in your pocket
pockets of bone-blue moon in the rain

I don’t want to go through life on my own

Instrumental

Verse 3
Nowadays I drift from coast to coast
Great Plain to staked plain chasing the oil plays
as a rigger for a company out of Dallas

Two weeks on then two weeks off
two weeks spent chasing a friend, Amarillo
you coiled and carried him away

Coda
Amarillo, you coiled and carried him away

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from April, Texas, released June 2, 2015

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An orchestral folk outfit based in the mountains of Montana.

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