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Last Night At The Social
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You ought to have seen what I saw on my way

To your house past the old creek today

I was cutting through Cecil Boggs’ yard, in the shadow of his mansion

I heard a scream from that castle, echoing like a bullet through a canyon.


In the cavernous home, who knows what it might be?

That preacher Boggs always has something up his sleeve

Remember he told us that God said he needed that house

More room for his worship but we know what that was about

But last night at the social

I thought I would’ve seen young John Boggs

He’s always at those dances and he loves to find out

What people have been up to and where they’ve been about


But last night at the social

Did you see Alan Holley?

He was ranting to anyone who’d listen about his day

I guess he fell into the creek and current almost took him away


He’s convinced God pulled him out of the water

And he wrote a prayer into his wrist about his ‘true father’

He says that Boggs is a heretic and that we should send him out

Well presto. Nobody wants Holley about.

See, Boggs last Sunday at our service he said

That the best way to get a message into a child’s head

The best way to teach them – here’s what he said

Says the best way is to beat it right into their skin

Like a hymn! Like a hymn! Let the Truth fly in

Their little minds don’t know better so let’s beat it right in

Did they get home late I’ll bet your fist works great

They’ll never forget all those lessons in their skin.


Do you think that has something to do with where John might be?


I haven’t seen his sister or his brothers either – let me see

Olive wasn’t a church and Georgia hasn’t been to school


Do you think Boggs’ hand is keeping those children subdued?


I wonder you didn’t see Emmett Crabtree about?


The best of it was that I did you know,

I was getting through what Boggs’ yard had to show

When over the wall and into the road

When who should come by in his shiny new coat

Of all the chattering Crabtrees alive

But Emmett, the elderly, out for a drive

He saw you, then? What did he? Did he frown?

He just kept nodding his head up and down.

You know how politely he always goes by

But he thought a big thought I could tell by his eye

Which being expressed might be this in effect:

I left these woods I shrewdly suspect

To flourish too long, I am greatly to blame.

They should be cut down and in their place

A parking lot and department store space.


Breathe the clean air while its still there.


Smell the fresh rain before its fake.


Listen to this hymn. It sings like a rusty saw blade.


This is a psalm for your greedy palms

For all of your guilt donate to the palace that we’ve built

Your sins are a burden and are just getting in the way

Of building me an extra house for all my guests to stay


And I wish I could lie to myself like they do

They couldn’t find the truth a moment too soon

How Boggs has been using their faith as a scam

For building his wealth and destroying the land

I was a sick soul before yesterday afternoon

But now I’ve been baptized by the sun and the moon

I was filled with lust and I was filled with hate

But now I can feel those demons abate


This is a hymn for all your sins

Sit there and pray and let this weight sink in

But do what you want all week long

And if you show up every Sunday all your sins will be gone.


I told you how once not long after we came

I almost lost myself to total mirth

By taking you to get lost in the earth

And see what truth laid in the hollows to be had


The sun shined out warm and the vines were all wet.

It was so long since we walked there that I almost forget.

How we used to take in trees and look at every flower

Stick them in our hair feeling fresh as a shower


And you missed the woods and I said I did too!

We went back out there and wandered a while

We got separated but you gave me a smile

I was so scared that you had wandered some miles


I thought I had lost you and I let out a shout

Too loud for the distance you were it turned out

And when you answered your voice as low as a bird

I’ll always remember the simple words that I heard.


I’d love to see these gardens overgrown

I’d love to see these fountains overflow

Oh, Alan what a nice way to live

Just taking what Nature is willing to give


But we won’t have this place to ourselves to enjoy

Not likely when Boggs’ flock all deploy

That shepherd will have them all over the night

They won’t be too friendly and they really won’t be polite but still

You ought to have seen how it looked in the rain

The fruit mixed with water in layers of leaves

Like two kinds of jewels. A vision for thieves.*


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