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the boxcars - marshallville lyrics

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in 1897 down in marshallville
the man john brown was running town and the law was dead and still
john rode in on the third of may, twelve men by his side
they shot the sheriff and they hung the judge before the day had turned to night

by the fifth of may news had spread, word finally got around
to darcy flynn, the reverend, whose wife lay in the ground
two years ago on a snowy night darcy’s wife was home alone
he returned to find his house was burned and his love lie cold as stone

hе knelt by the ashes, somеthing out of place
a knife stuck down in the ground, “john brown” was engraved
after two long years of waiting, the knife clutched in his hand
he crossed the hill toward marshallville a changed and broken man

he seeks the kind of justice that a reverend shouldn’t give
’cause on this day, brown would pay for the wages of his sin
story goes at day’s end, brown lay in the street
a dozen men as dead as him and his knife lay at his feet

through the years no one heard more from the reverend
john brown was k!lled in marshallville and he won’t be back again

- the boxcars lyrics

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