A Toast to the Twilight

Miller Mary
Helgerson 6/2008

(C) A dame for your dollar/ Watch Mary go ‘round (Am)
(F)The Lone Fir, the stones (E) (Am)The dead
(C) Aware as she passes old Valentine Brown (Am)
(F) Of the host of (E) ghosts under their beds (Am)

(C) A dance for your dollar/In shade if you wouldl (Am)
(F) A twirl through the tombs (E) she’s possessed (Am)
With lively confessions/ The late tell the tale (C)
(F)To the one who lives (E) close to her chest (Am)

(E) A toast to the twilight /(Am) Two drinks in our hands
(G) As we search for the river, the shore (G7/(E) and then comes the toast
(Am)To what’s certainly the host/(G)Of no uncertainty anymore, no uncertainty anymore (G7)

(C) A dance for dollar/Watch Mary go round (Am)
(F) The Lone Fir, her stones (E) and their dead (Am)
(F)The Lone Fir, her stones (E) and their dead (Am)

Inspired by a stroll through the Lone Fir Cemetery as part of a collaboration for the Dearly Departed CD.  Vocals and melody by Wendy Pate for the tribute CD.