Dark Autumn Hour Lyrics

Dark Autumn Hour - Frontier Ruckus
Email: sskinner@wit.edu
The Orion Songbook: Track 4
Matthew Milia: songs, voice, guitar, harmonica, pedal steel
David W. Jones: banjo, voice, dobro
Zachary Nichols: brass, singing-saw, melodica, keyboards
Ryan Etzcorn: drums, percussion
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Melodica Notes: Directly from Zach via FRs site.
First part:
The harmony part starts and ends the same, but diverges in between:
Verse I
Anne, lets die in some dim town
My brown eyes wait to weigh us down
The candles round the tub will drown
In our after-noons
Music from our evening parlor
Darker than the autumn hour
I gave my child twenty dollars
For tearing at our moons
-banjo solo-
Verse II
Dark damp men muddied our house
In my dreams to bleed your blouse
I smiled from my sleep to douse
The horror of this hour
Our boy on dark hills blurry crawling
His rain-glazed shaking porches falling
The homes of all his friends just sprawling
Withering like flowers
Verse III
Anne, Ive loved you from a boy
No other autumn could destroy
The town our winds fused to enjoy
Whispering dark farmlands
Tearing moons, these moons are tearing
Swearing terror inside their daring
Crumbling prayers, dark autumns faring
Straight out of our hands
End with a couple more runs through the chords
Sources:
http://www.youtube.com/watch'v=g_wksmHg5x8&feature=endscreen&NR=1
http://www.frontierruckus.com/content
http://www.frontierruckus.com/songbook
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