Battle Hymn of Boy & Blood

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When I was a kid, I went looking for arrowheads in an Indian crick, and just kept going. I said, I reckon I'll leave--I meant nothing to no one, except a dog name of Blood. And we drifted along. We headed way out West, where it's picking up. Hitched a ride in the cargo bay of a Greyhound bus. I saw the desert that way, come alive in the starlight. Camped out in a bramble, to keep the coyotes at bay. I had Grandaddy's gun tied up in a satchel. It was near all I could handle, but Blood scared them away. We're headed way out West, where it's picking up. Hitched a ride in an airplane and a pickup truck. When I was a kid, I went looking for arrowheads in an Indian crick bed, and just kept going. I've made it far as I may. I ran into some lean years. Blood died in El Paso, and I buried him there. And I'm living way out West, where it's picking up. Got a mind to stay, if fate deals me any luck.

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from Remember, released March 17, 2015

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