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Jasper Turnbow

from Sweet Martha by Sweet Martha

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Swing low, Jasper Turnbow
It's a long march back from hangman's rope
If you get low, low, low
Patriots die at sunrise
As the chicory burns in the fire's light
If you get low, low, low

Sign me up, send me over the mountains
And down through the valleys, to the south's cotton kingdom
It's well worth my body in the ground

Stay low, Jasper Turnbow
It's a long way back from where you'll go
If you get low, low, low
They'll turn you down off of Culpepper's bridge
Where moonlight leads the fallen home
It's not too late, we'll hold this line
And find our way back home again

Then they yelled all get down, all get down
For your treacherous wiles, we will cast a speedy trial
And with bastions sieged, we've bled you wicked thieves
It's the price for the lives, of the free yet torturous plight, of the south

And I will say, that "he loved with conviction"
That "with shells all around us, he braved the broken lines"
That "his love, oh his love, it saved us all from the south"

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from Sweet Martha, released June 24, 2014
Music + lyrics by Bradley Rader

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We are a Kansas City based group doing what we love. Our music is all about those sweet harmonies.

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