Story Behind The Song

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Song Description

jimmy meets up with uncle john's former teenage lover prostitute now older and worse for wear, she takes him by morning out to his desert burial site thus concluding the cd

Lyrics

STONE CROSS
By David Caira

Took a week off from my city job
Drivin down ole 66 with a map and photo
Got the last known address of my uncle and his girl
In 1964 she was the star of the red light district of a dying miner?s town
A real Pueblo-Mexican beauty
Uncle was like a daddy to her
To him, he was lucky to have this young primrose as his lover
And you know, she?s still around

CHORUS:
Stone cross
Now it?s time
Drove these miles just to find
Stone cross
Toe the line, she say, shoot straight son, you?ll be fine

I found she never left
No longer a young primrose
She still had a young smile but a weathered soul
She fed me cervesas as she drank her evening coffee
And asked if I?d spend the night
I said ?I?m not lookin for company, I?m lookin for family?
When a man is lookin for truth it?s want some
Need some
Get some
Got some
And you know, she?s still around

CHORUS

The lonely ghosts in this town
Waitin to be found
So sorry to bring back your fears
He shed blood

You shed tears

Enough I said by 4am
I drove all these miles to find him
So she drove my truck with me
Four klicks past the Walloohooloo ghost town
As dawn broke she led me to a stone cross sticking out of the sand
She pointed at it and said ?You know? I never loved again?
And she?s still around

CHORUS

See the headlines in our lives will read-
A lonely ghost was found wandering
Half a world away
By those
Who loved him


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