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jesse jack murray - horace mann lyrics

a stone’s throw
a quarter-mile to the field
where diamonds grow
horace mann waits up the hill
fireworks
that’s why we’ve come
higher than
the prairie sun

i found you
lying in a field alone
in white socks
shoeless, stained with strawberries
upon your back
you’d shaved your head the night before
in disregard
your watch beside you ticking still

life is hard
for poor men
white lines
we breathe them in

i’ll join you
staring at the summer sky
of dodger blue
with cottonwood that falls like snow
in buckets full
baseb-lls fly like ribboned geese
all red and white
they fall to earth like rocket ships
on us below
as diamonds grow between our toes
like strawberries
in south dakota summertime
oh, it’s like heroin
these cannon blasts rushing through my brain
there’s a fortune here
a quarter-mile from our home

and when we die
they’ll plant our bodies in a field
like horace mann
that we might bless the orphan child
and in years to come
if they should raise a marble there
in fire etched:
“an ebenezer to the young.”

and white lines
they’ll breathe them in like you and i did
there’s a fortune here
in south dakota summertime

and they’ll know we are christians by our love, by our love
yes, they’ll know we are christians by our love

- jesse jack murray lyrics

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