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written in Nashville in the 90's by David

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Purple Nashville Rose
david modersbach & missin' cousins

G-Dm7-C-G-Em-A

Moon’s getting fat and I’m settin back, here at the Metro Motel
My feet they are bare in the warm midnight air
Troubles just floating out the door
Dickerson, Nashville, outskirts of town
Watching the prostitutes walk up and down
It’s a nice night and they’re doing all right
Me I’ll just set here and drink and smoke and write

C-G-C-Em
C-G-Dm7
And it’s all right, for the time
Thoughts come out and somehow rhyme
It’s not always good like this
But I’ve seen Nashville and I saw Fisk

Fisk, now there’s a beautiful place
So much history, the kind you can taste
I walked around breathing in the air
Wishing and a dreaming that I was there
In the better days, days we’ve seen
In the times that’s yet to be
Hoping that the moment will come right to me
And be there fighting that fight to be free

And it’s all right for the time
This wouldn’t be too bad a time to lay right down and die
But then again it’s really not so bad to be alive
I think I’ll get up and walk into the night

Interlude: Dm7 & G

The Purple Nashville Rose is a thistle that grows
In the cracks along the sidewalk where the ragged people go
The purple flower’s sweet and it brightens up the street
Reminds me of the beauty in our misery
Sirens in the air and a flashing firefly
Moon is getting smaller and the traffic’s floating by
Honeysuckle creeping in an tickling my nose
And I won’t forget the smell of the Purple Nashville Rose

Well I’ll be leaving Nashville tho I would love to stay
But it’s given me some things that I can dream on long the way
I’ll return again someday when god only knows
And I’ll be reunited with the Purple Nashville Rose

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from All things pass and turn to dust, released June 6, 2002

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The Missin' Cousins Oakland, California

The Missin' Cousins are from Oakland California. We have played Alameda County & Western music since 1994, in bars, BART stations, jail, institutions, benefits, streets, parties, etc. Much of our songs are made up, and we play a lot of folk & country songs we love.

Suzanne Pegas (singing/drums)
Elizabeth Zirker (singing/violin)
David Modersbach (singing/ guitar)

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