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step right up! - i can hear you still lyrics

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[verse 1]
i awakened from my bedroll on the ground
to peer between the spokes, the fire dying down
the leaping shadows scattered, and one shade left behind
in the dust, a crumpled form before my eyes

[pre-chorus 1]
and to my shame, i prayed for someone else’s grief
that the loved one dying slowly belonged to anyone but me
the blade the brigands left behind had done its work
you were given no last words
but i can hear you still

[chorus]
you are the murmur of the cornstalks
as they brush against our wheels
the looming clouds on the horizon
the flap of canvas in the wind
you are the blankets wrapped around me
as i sleep beneath the boards
you’ve never left this place
and so neither will i, my only love

[verse 2]
i was a girl when we met beneath the top
a fledgling acrobat, and her newfound confidante
the fortune teller’s smile was sad that night
she claimed she saw in us
a sorrow much too great, and an even greater love

[pre-chorus 2]
we must have had a final kiss, had we but known
but at the time it would have seemed to us just one more time
your light snuffed out over a coin-purse and a coffer
with little more than earnings from a single night

[chorus]
you are the murmur of the cornstalks
as they brush against our wheels
the looming clouds on the horizon
the flap of canvas in the wind
you are the blankets wrapped around me
as i sleep beneath the boards
you’ve never left this place
and so neither will i

[interlude]

[verse 3]
there was no priest, no pastor on our wedding day
we stopped the caravan at sunset on a hill above the plains
old samson heard our vows from atop the bally-stage
and his little jennilee spread flowers in our wake

[chorus]
you are the murmur of the cornstalks
as they brush against our wheels
the looming clouds on the horizon
the flap of canvas in the wind
you are the blankets wrapped around me
as i sleep beneath the boards
you’ve never left this place
and so neither will i

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