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Hometown Hooray
White Hinterland

Down by the old stone churchnWhere the joe-pye weed and the mallows grownThose petals bigger then my fistnWatch them bob and bow when the wind does blownnThere grows a cypress treenAnd in its trunk I carved you namenAnd right beside it I carved minennThey'll give you the hometown hooraynWhen you come home, babynBronze your combat bootsnAnd set your bones in claynWrite down every word you ever had to saynNo one wants to believe you died in vainnnThe first spring that you were gonenThe women who lived on the flat roof-topsnHad sherds sewn with quickly germinating seeds of greensnnIn all of their Sapphic celebrationsnThey held fires and dances, chanted your namenTied yellow ribbons round the trunks of trees in townnnThey'll give you the hometown hooraynWhen you come home, babynBronze your combat bootsnAnd set your bones in claynWrite down every word you ever had to saynWith Homeric undertones and half the lengthnnBut the skies held a collusion of their ownnAnd on the sunniest day there ever wasnYou died at the tusk of a bayonetnAnd Aphrodite found your bodynSprinkled nectar in your woundsnAnd you blood dripped red anemonesnThat shimmered just like precious stonesnnAnd they floated down the riverbanknTo the tributary that now shares your namenAnd the rapids from then on ran rednThey run red to this daynnThey'll give you the hometown hooraynWhen you come home, babynOh bronze your combat bootsnAnd set your bones in claynWrite down every word you ever had to saynWith Homeric undertones and half the lengthnnWe used to walk past the blue schoolhousenWe wore our love like it was a crownnAnd our skin was a map we knew by heartnWe never once got lostnWe never once got lostnNo one wants to believe you died in vainnnThe Sapphic women who love you sonStill cry every spring when the fennel goesnAnd the wheat and the barley and the hardy ryenWither and go to seednnI walk down to the old stone churchnwhere the joe-pye weed and the mallows grownThose petals droop now heavy with rainnwatch them bob and bow when the wind does blownnThere, my favorite cypress treenAs tall as the steeples I can seenThey've tied a yellow-ribbon 'round its trunknthat covers your name where I carved it twicennI rip that ribbon off the treenBurn it down by the river that now shares your namenPlace the ash where the water ravenously licks the riverbanknnWe used to walk past the blue schoolhousenWe wore our love like it was a crownnAnd our skin was a map I knew by heartnWe never once got lostnWe never once got lostnNo one wants to believe you died in vain


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