Ashes & Diamonds Ashes & Diamonds
Virg's latest five-song cd Ashes & Diamonds
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Comfort of the State
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Track 1 - Rosalita
- Heading out of Cairo didn’t know what for
- Well she flagged me down along the Mississippi shore
- She wore a crimson dress and a cross that said
Jesus Loves Me round her throat
Look to me like she was running from the law.And I said - Hey Senorita
And I said - Mmh Rosalita
Want to ride along with me?
Cos I’m travelling wild and free
You know the road ahead’s an ever open door.Parked behind a liquor store and drank some wine
She told me ’bout her life, and then I told her mine
She left her home at seventeen
Couldn’t stand her folks no more
She’d been making out along the borderlineAnd I said - Hey Senorita
And I said - Mmh Rosalita
You know, running from the past
Just gets you no place fast
Got a feelin’ we could git along just fine.(Break )
Chorus:
And I said - Hey Senorita
And I said - Mmh Rosalita
Running from the past
Just gets you no place fast
Got a feelin’ we could git along just fine.Fifty dollar motel room down San Anton
Midnight heard her whispering on the telephone
Dreamed of driving down the road of life
Rosalita by my side
But when morning comes I’m laying all aloneAnd I said - Hey Senorita
And I said - Mmh Rosalita
I smell your perfume on the air
But Rosalita you ain’t there
You left me nothin’ in my pocket but a stone
And I said -Hey SenoritaAnd I said - Mmh Rosalita…. etc
If I could have my days again
I’d go to San Anton
On a certain summer’s evening in July
Well we’d stroll our way down Main Street
Watch those pretty girls pass by
And drink some beers in Kelly’s bar
Drive home beneath God’s good sky.And when I was alone again
There’s a place that calls me still
Where the road leads past the Mission of San Juan
Where those Mexicali ladies
With their dusky legs so bare
Smile at you from the shadows
Winding roses in their hair.Chorus
San Anton I hear you calling
Calling softly through my tears
In San Anton a girl keep calling to me
Across the lonely valley of the years.Break
Back to Chorus…
San Anton ….etc…And everyone would know me there
And call me by my name
We’d eat and drink at a table in the square
Someone would fetch a mandolin
And play so sweet and low
While the children danced in circles
Singing songs of long ago.And as the moon climbed up that sky
I’d knock upon her door
And she’d look down and see me standing there
And I’d tell her since we broke up
I’d been so all alone
There could only be one Rose for me
The Rose of San Anton.Chorus
San Anton I hear you callin’….etc
Sang in a café
Poor side of town
She painted the years out
Had wine stains on her gown
Sang for hearts that were broken
She sang songs of regret
She remembered a past life
She’d sooner forget.She sang
Ashes and diamonds
Jewels in the dust
When you give all your love babe
To a man you just can’t trust.
Ashes and Diamonds etc…Had a boy down in Parchment
Serving time on the Farm
And a daughter in Venice
Put needles in her arm.
Saw husbands and lovers
Stretching back down the years
Drank the past from a bottle
That tasted like her tearsShe sang ….
Ashes and diamonds etcWhen she looked in the mirror
Saw a girl just eighteen
With a smile like a promise
Bluest eyes you’ve ever seen.
She saw herself runnin’
Through fields bright and green
To a place in her heart called-
What might have been.Ashes and Diamonds etc
Drove out of town with the dawning light
To catch that early morning flight
Saw empty streets and dreams and memories fade from sight
He thought of her calling out his name
Hoping the note was just a game
And that the door he’d closed would one day open up again.
And the rain it started falling
And he found himself recalling
The day that Julie changed his life:Julie the only one
Where did our lives go wrong?
Where did our love go wrong?Solo…………………..
And the rain it started falling
And he found himself recalling
The day that Julie changed his life:
Julie the only one
Where did our lives go wrong?
Where did our love go wrong?He watched a black and white film on a motel TV
About a private eye who solved a mystery
And a girl selling dreams
To a million men she could not see
Picked up phone beside bed
Tried to say again what he’d left said unsaid
He heard a voce he knew
Break up before the line went dead
He knew oh too much about her
To live or live without her
Without Julie
Who one day changed his life:Julie the only one
Julie the only one ………(And fade)
Where did our lives go wrong?
Where did our love go wrong?
I got your snake skin boots from a catalogue
And a picture of your car
I got your comic books, pack o’ Lucky Strike
Some gum and a Hershey Bar
I brung the picture you said you liked o’ me
Took the day that we got wed…..
And six new strings for your old guitar and yer tapes of the grateful dead.I got a good luck card from yer sister Blanche
Got a call from your brother Jim
Well the sickness sure have changed his voice
I hardly knowed it was him
But one thang I could not get for you
An’ I pray that it ain’t too late
I got no phone call from the governor
I got no pardon from the State…
She said:What we gonna tell him
So he don’t grow up to hate
Tell him Daddy dies in the governor’s chair
In the comfort of the state.I got yer boxer shorts from the ANP
Deck o’ cards from your cousin Mike
An’ a cherry pie that your Momma made
Baked just the way you like…
I got some fancy decals and a western shirt
With your name picked out in gold
I brought a boy to meet his daddy
Who ain’t but five days old.Then heard her man say:
I killed a man in Venice Beach
He said with a heavy sigh
Well I shot him down for loving you
Now they say that I have to die
It’s been a hard old road that I’ve travelled down
But tonight I’m a gonna be free
So I’m begging you babe
Don’t you let that boy grow up to be like me…And he said:
What we gonna tell him….
The warder stood in the prison door
The priest was by his side
And when he blessed the two of them
The girl broke up and she cried
Well the priest he took her by the hand
Said, It’s best if you don’t stay
Just take your leaves for the very last time
And say what you gotta say…Well, they looked into each other’s eyes
And they felt the moments pass
Then he wrote the words, I love you babe-
With his finger on the glass.
Then I heard him cry out for the very last time
Oh babe say it ain’t too late
For that phone call from the governor
For that pardon from the State…And they both said:
What we gonna tell him
So he don’t grow…..etc
Words & Music copyright (c) Gareth Owen. May 2008
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