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Smokey Mountain Rain

from Dead Lovers by John Hewitt

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SMOKEY MOUNTAIN RAIN

I wish I was out of the war reading Rimbaud on the shores
Of Lake Superior, in some backstreet lover’s car
In the hallways of the emperor
I’d let liberty go down through the watery eyes
Of a dying American flag, through cigarette smoke
She’ll dance on the edges dressed in drag
All through a Mexican grin, the Alamo came and remembered him
With a shotgun in his hands, barrel smoking
As she clutched at the tuft of the night
No it ain’t right that she should go through all this pain
Smokey Mountain rain
Tearing me apart
Smokey mountain rain
Ripping out my heart
Smokey mountain rain
Heaven help me get her out of the rain

In the Eastern Twilight grill she sits next to him on the hill
With beads of sweat rolling down her face
She’s a Cadillac design in the image of the human race
And mother nature swears that’s it’s not her to blame
But the placed her in the gamblers chair
They tied her down Lord they ripped out her hair
Mother, mother what’s it like up there?
You called out to me and you drag me inside
Between the gutter in the alley and the continental divide
You laced in morphine I swallow my pride
Take me back to Nashville, Tennessee
Smokey Mountain rain
Tearing me apart
Smokey mountain rain
Ripping out my heart
Smokey mountain rain
Heaven help me get her out of the rain

And it’s pounding in my brain
From the Mississippi River to the South Dakota plains
And it’s pounding in my brain
From the Mississippi River to the Nelson Mountain range
And it’s pounding in my brain
From the Mississippi River to the ghosts of the Pontchartrain
And it’s pounding in my brain
From the Mississippi River to the South Dakota Plains

Heaven help me get her out of the rain…

-John Hewitt-

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from Dead Lovers, track released December 31, 2021
Written by John Hewitt
Arranged produced and mixed by John Hewitt
Mastered by Brendan Lyons

John Hewitt: Acoustic and electric guitars, Vocals
Benjamin Williams: Electric Guitar
Jazz Nipp: Piano
Nigel Gale: Bass
Jordan Dempster: Drums

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John Hewitt Edmonton, Alberta

John Hewitt was born in Northern Ontario. From an early age he took inspirations from the arts to create a bond between expression and emotion. From the Beat Generation to the Beatles, Quentin Tarantino to John Steinbeck all of the images in John's songs have some relation to the giants before him. ... more

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