Name: Paper Bag Poem
Duration: P00H04M04S
Description: Don't remember much about the recording of this one. I do remember that it was written in between skipping classes at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, Virginia back in 2005. I think it was winter.

Paper Bag Poem

from Crooked Songs by Rance Garrison

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Don't remember much about the recording of this one. I do remember that it was written in between skipping classes at Mountain Empire Community College in Big Stone Gap, Virginia back in 2005. I think it was winter.

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Found a poem written on a paper bag
Said that love might be all you have
But if you have it you're gonna be fine
Smoked a cigarette under the marquee
Waiting for you to call out to me
From across the street's painted lines

I hope you got my letter
If I could I would try to know myself better
But you know me more than anyone

I was driving on the old dirt road
Music blaring on my stereo
I was so moved a tear appeared in my eye
Thought of you in your long blonde curls
Wish that together we could burn the world
And smoke up this clouded sky

I hope you got my letter
If I could I would try to know myself better
But you know me more than anyone

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from Crooked Songs, released May 1, 2006
Produced by Rance Garrison

Music and lyrics by Rance Garrison

Rance Garrison: acoustic guitar, electric organ, vocals

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Rance Garrison Norton, Virginia

Rance Garrison is a singer-songwriter and music producer from the Appalachian region of Virginia. He has released several albums of original music including 2017’s Deplorables and 2015’s The Fireside Season which Whurk! Magazine called, “Virginia’s most secret weapon: a moonshine-swilling, snake-handling, junk-shooting, redemption-seeking opus.” ... more

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