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Steel Mill Town

from SHE by Darryl Gregory

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A song about my mother.

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She was born east of Cleveland
Over by the steel mills
Where ash from the furnace
Settled on her window sills
They sent her to a Catholic school
Where she learned the Rosary
In this old Steel town
On the shores of lake Erie

She married him at sixteen
With a baby on the way
She thought that she loved him
But who was she to say
He promised that he'd take her
Down south where the water's warm
But it's been forty-odd years
She's still here where she was born

So count your blessings add 'em up
Write 'em down now every day
You'll see that what you have is
Worth the price you pay
But it's a pretty penny that you spend
When you live life day to day
And you're waiting for the next page to turn
Cursing at the world
For all that's been done
In this old Steel Mill Town

And the flames from the mills
Burn just like a midnight sun
This city's on fire
Her children are all gone
And her husband's buried too
She sits there thinking about the past
Wishin that her life was through

Well the gray snows of December
Cover up her small front yard
She's seen so many winters here
That she pays them no regard
She sees no sense in moving now
This is where her roots run down
Through the iron and the slag
Of this Old Steel Mill Town

So count your blessings add 'em up
Write 'em down now every day
You'll see that what you have is
Worth the price you pay
But it's a pretty penny that you spend
When you live life day to day
And you're waiting for the next page to turn
Cursing at the world
For all that's been done
In this old Steel Mill Town

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from SHE, released August 1, 2007

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Take a little Mellencamp, throw in some Cash, stir with a dash of Hiatt and flavor with Springsteen & Earle. Sounds Like Darryl Gregory. Heat-n-Eat! mmm good.

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