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Hobo Nickel

from Red Letter Day by Lorne Entress

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Words and Music by Lorne Entress
Entress Music, BMI

lyrics

Out behind the woodshed
beyond the Tamaracks
lives a memory from way back
Hid beneath the pine leaves
windblown against the shack
where the bones of birds and kindling crack

Coddled by a mystery
the burnished birds of prey
fly in circles every year, to the day
The town still hasn’t noticed
the circumstance so strange
it’s not a mystery till someone speaks your name

I know it’s hard for her to make the time
to leave behind what has been done
I can’t pretend to know just how she heals
or why she feels she has to run

She couldn’t wait to show him
excitement in her eyes
an eighty-seven Silver Eagle was her prize
He swung right through the Tamarack
she piled the wood so high
it drew up her jacket, and her skin captured his eye

Beware of the hobo nickel
so easily defaced
clanging in his pocket and so eager to debase
She blamed her own stupidity
and hoping to erase
the time and place, she wiped the dirt from off her face

Beware of the hobo nickel
once beautiful and bright
carved and faceless, disappears into the night
But sometimes by the woodshed
when the sun hits the leaves just right
a shining, gleaming Silver Eagle rises in flight

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from Red Letter Day, released July 19, 2021
Lorne Entress - vocals, acoustic guitars, Moog synth, drums, percussion. David Limina - piano. Kevin Barry - lap steel. Jesse Williams - bass.
Produced, recorded and mixed by Lorne Entress at Harmony St.

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Lorne Entress Hartford, Connecticut

After decades of producing many artists I've released my own record. With little fanfare and a modest budget I hid away in my studio in Tolland Connecticut tracking songs. Most began with a single line of verse and grew from there. In addition to American roots influences the ringing harmonies of 70s British rock pushed to the surface and I didn’t push back. ... more

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