Rock Salt And Nails
Utah Phillips

INTRO:
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On the banks of the river where the willow hang down
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Where the wild birds all warble with a low moaning sound
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Down in the hollow where the water runs cold
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It was there I first listened to the lies that you told

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Now I lie on my bed and I see your sweet face
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And the past I remember time cannot erase
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The letter you wrote me it was written in shame
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And I know that your conscience still echoes my name
 
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Now the nights are so lonely and sorrow runs deep
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And nothing is worse than a night without sleep
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I walk out alone and look at the sky
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Too empty to sing - too lonesome to cry

BREAK ONE VERSE

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Now if ladies were blackbirds if ladies were thrushes
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I'd lie there for hours in the chilly, cold marshes
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If ladies were squirrels with them high bushy tails
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I'd fill up my shotgun with rock salt and nails
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I'd fill up my shotgun with rock salt and nails