[00:14.19]I remember how the wood would smell
[00:19.15]Just as the last great tree was felled
[00:23.18]Like many that came before
[00:26.33]It was used for table and a door
[00:29.67]A palette and a long hall rack
[00:33.24]Hung my great grandfather's hat
[00:37.47]A stable and a barn, a bed and a seat
[00:43.90]A roof and fence and a floor that creaked
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[00:50.59]And a coffin leanin against the wall
[00:54.30]When there was a death in Arkansas
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[01:10.35]I liked the wagons and the wheels
[01:13.23]The wind that knocked us down in the fields
[01:16.58]And the girls with the southern drawl
[01:20.35]And those that came before were the pictures on the wall
[01:25.43]And the lone dogs howled and the crows would caw
[01:29.30]When there was a death in Arkansas
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[01:35.08]We were laid to rest out under the sun
[01:39.07]And we breathed our last
[01:40.67]And it was done
[01:42.31]And the air redeemed us and we would learn
[01:47.11]That a life was hallowed and we wouldn't burn
[01:52.64]Hands folded gently to say goodbye
[01:56.73]It was just this place underneath the sky
[02:00.21]Do you see our bones hidin like a toad
[02:04.01]In the old red dirt that is now a road
[02:10.14]Beneath the sign that blinks off on
[02:13.96]And a shopping mall where the house is gone
[02:20.74]Forgetting that a soul may call
[02:24.19]When there is a death in Arkansas
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[02:55.63]And a quilten patch of new concrete
[02:59.17]Helps the trucks roll down the street
[03:02.35]There's a Dollar Store by the setting sun
[03:05.83]And a sign on the church says His Will is Done
[03:13.38]I can't see the birds or find the fields
[03:17.84]That hold my bones beneath the wheels
[03:23.13]And a mother worries that her son won't call
[03:28.87]And a tv stares at a blinking wall
[03:34.10]But the lone dogs howl and the crows still call
[03:39.32]When there is a death in Arkansas
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