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Medicine Hat Approximately

from The Sixth Avenue Verses by Michael Coughlan

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"...there's a lonely wind that blows around."

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Four hours from the mountains nestled out among the badlands lies a town that they call Medicine Hat. The place is built on flames of hell and freight trains run the rails there, well, arriving I discovered that ...there's a lonely wind that blows around. I settled in without a sound content to start the job I'd found my place was at the top of a hill. The artist girl just two doors down named Shelby wore a satin gown that matched her green eyes what a thrill. I loved the way she smoked a cigarette. I knew exactly what to say the day she turned those eyes my way. She held me tight one fateful night atop that hill in pale moonlight her way just too much to resist. Our two souls weak and at all costs discretion, shame, and candour lost - we'd thrown it all down for a kiss. I heard a freight train blast its way through the night. So hand in hand across the moonlit Finlay Bridge to the old hotel on the dusty side of town for a drink. The sadness of the desperate drunks and tired barmaid who one by one poured her whiskey-spent days down a sink. But the band on stage just brought it home. They sang "ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh." That summer chapter fast in passing makes late labours everlasting hard to look back on the pain. The sadness of the quiet homes in rows I see as ghosts in kitchen windows watch me pass by in the rain. And in the rail yard all the switchmen are having a smoke. They're singing "ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh."

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from The Sixth Avenue Verses, released April 9, 2014
Michael Coughlan - Canada (vocals, acoustic guitar), Steve Wood - Canada (pedal steel), Elly Kellner - The Netherlands (beauty vocals).

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