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Death O'Clock Shadow

from Stable Condition by The Randy Abel Stable

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When death has come and taken our loved ones
It leaves our home so lonely and drear—
Then shall we wonder why others prosper
Livin so wicked year after year.

They had my daddy in a box and I wept
To brush his cheekbone with my fingers.
But I was warmed to find faint stubble there,
Post-mortem whiskers bristling on and on.
Be you self-righteous, stout or spleenful
You’ll be lonesome in the moment should you linger
To touch your daddy’s last-lone whiskers
And wonder where his stubbly soul has gone.

They shaved his rough and dusky cheeks
But Papa’s death-o’clock shadow kept on growin
Like rugged winter blossoms bloomin on some far exotic shore.
And, father, son and Holy Stubble!
Let’s just say I got all whisked-up in the knowin
I’d touched my daddy’s death-grown whiskers
And that razor’s edge would trouble him no more.

My daddy cut steel wheels for tank cars,
Sweat in steel mills, honky-tonk bars, hustled 9-ball.
I seen him lovesick, hammered, sober, sickly, sappy
Sunday morning coming down.
But before his trials were over
At a NASCAR race in Dover he was ragin—
Man, his soul revved when them stock-cars rolled
And reeled and rocked and rumbled round & round.

Back at the Old Man’s farewell service
I was proud to feel a Circle left unbroken
As we recalled a vast and gentle soul
And sang this great old-timey gospel song
‘Bout how Farther Along we’ll all know why
And the why need not be spoken.
Lord knows I’ll sport some stubble
When I sing with Pops much farther on along.

Farther along we’ll know more about it
Farther along we’ll understand why…

Chorus

© 2006 Rustbowl Refugee Music

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from Stable Condition, released July 1, 2013
Produced and arranged by The Randy Abel Stable. Recorded, mixed and mastered in Beijing, China.

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The Randy Abel Stable Beijing, China

The Randy Abel Stable is an Americana or Alt-Country band from Beijing. Formed in 2011, The Randy Abel Stable combines honky tonk, country, bluegrass and blues to produce a unique sound that has been described as having "the realism and sadness of Townes Van Zandt, the imagery and lyricism of Hank Williams Sr. and the excitement and raw energy of the Ramones." ... more

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