A Matchbook Song

from Your Very Own Dream by Clay Parker and Jodi James

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A Matchbook Song

If I see my love 'fore daylight come
They won't know which way we've run
But if my love don't pass my way
They'll bury me down in the cold black clay

See my love is made of muscle and blood
From a breath of life on the Mississippi mud
And I'd work my back with a hammer and steel
To see my love singing at the driving wheel

There's a black smoke rising up over the hill
Shots rang out and they're ringing out still
There's a golden band at the bottom of the well
If my love don't ask I'll never tell

No I never needed much but a fiddle and bow
I never knew what I didn't need to know
A matchbook song for a matchbook sin
I'd burn the damn thing all over again

See I don't know but I've been told
The Mississippi mud will swallow you whole
And I can't say but I've heard it said
They'll take you alive but they'd rather you dead

So if I see my love 'fore daylight come
They won't know which way we've run
But if my love don't pass my way
They'll bury me down in the cold black clay

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from Your Very Own Dream, released January 19, 2024
©2024 Electric Wreck Music / ©2024 Jodi James Publishing

Clay Parker - Vocals, Electric Guitar

Jodi James - Vocals, Electric Guitar

Clint Kirby - Drums, Percussion

Dave Hinson - Bass

Produced and engineered by Ryan Tharp at 7013 Sound in Fort Worth, TX.

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