Vernonia Blues - Horse Feathers

There’s a pain the west

A sinking feeling deep down in their chests

A little a girl, a town with her name

Her daddy died before she had came

To see the place and just how it laid to waste

The rain it came and did not stop

All the streets filling up to their tops

It’s coming up to their knees

The river had its way it did as it pleased

On the water’s sheen there’s rainbows of gasoline

Good Lord, what have we done for this dark dirty sun?

Lord of mine, where have you been?

When there’s trouble you are nowhere to be seen

A little town like a lamb

Well, a lion come down and took their dam

February was lean, and March came to scream