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Marie Marie Marie

from Prayer Street Blues by Jeremy Joyce

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She was such a young girl
Her cheeks were red and bright
Tears were streaming down them
On our wedding night

Just fresh out of High School
We had a little fun
To the state of West Virginia
We were on the run

Now I work for the coal company
I run a big machine
Since I’ve been a miner
I never got clean

Blasting off the mountain tops
Digging out the vein
To the heart of Appalachia
To load it on a train

[CHORUS]
Marie, Marie, Marie don’t you cry for me
I stole you from your home, back in Tennessee
If I was an angel, straight to you I’d fly
No angel I know ever worked that company mine

Protesters line the gates
I don't look em in the eye
I tell myself I do it
For Marie and I

But she’s hiding her phone from me
She won’t tell me who she calls
Says she’s going crazy
In these trailer walls

Her yellow hair beside me
As she turns away her breast
The coal dust in my lungs
That will bring my death

Dear lord please forgive
Though I really don’t know how
I took Marie out of Tennessee
Just to cut your mountains down

She came to me so softly
She came to me so sweet
Black hair running down her back
No shoes upon her feet

She took me to her room
Into her bed I fell
And all the secrets of
The mining operation I did tell

Equipment sabotaged
Systems being hacked
Each night that we’re together
Another way that she attacks

Marie still waits at home
Though I know it’s not for long
Only so far a man
Can go when going wrong

I am at her door with lilies
As she greets me with a kiss
I can feel my heart racing
When she bites down on my my lip

I push her away from me
Petals falling to the floor
The company security
Busts right through the door

I hear her call me traitor
I hear her cry in pain
As they dig into her harder
She’s calling out my name

I sent Marie to Tennessee
I sent Marie back home
God save West Virginia
God damn this dirty hole

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from Prayer Street Blues, released December 31, 2015

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Jeremy Joyce New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans couldn’t offer a more appropriate musical backdrop for Jeremy Joyce, whose genre-defying songs are born out of Jeremy’s macro-level interest in music history and his micro-level interest in what makes songs tick.

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