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Muddy Hymnal
Iron & Wine
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Found your name across the chapel door
Carved in cursive with a table fork
Muddy hymnals and some boot marks where you'd been
The shaking preacher told the captained man
The righteous suffer in a fallen land
And pulled the shade to keep the crowd from peeking in
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We found your children by the tavern door
With wooden buttons and an apple core
Playing house and telling everyone you'd drowned
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The begging choir told the captained man
We all assume the worst the best we can
And for a round or two they'd gladly track you down
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We found you sleeping by your lover's stone
A ream of paper and a telephone
A broken bow across a long-lost violin
Your lover's angel told the captained man
It never ends the way we had it planned
And kissed her palm and placed it on your dreaming head
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