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My Mamma Said

from 7 Deadly Spins by Lynne Hanson

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My Mamma Said
Lynne Hanson / Fraser Holmes / Lynn Miles

church bells ring on Sunday
they call the born again
good sinners hurry past my cell
cross themselves when I call to them

there's bars on my window
I can barely see the sun
judgement passed upon me
I will hang for what I done
I'm set to hang
for the evil that I done

CHORUS
No hope for redemption
Her words are ringing in my head
The world will be a better place
That's what my momma said

born with the devil in me
dark urges fill my thoughts
I could no more change what I am
than a leopard change his spots

preacher from my town
always said I was a curse
at barely sixteen years of age
I tore him from this earth
sent his soul
tumbling from this earth

CHORUS

I never showed no pity
I never spared a breath
my hands got only tighter
a noose around their neck

sunrise inches closer
no mercy break my fall
I watch the growing shadow
of the gallows on my wall
watch as death
crawls across my wall

CHORUS

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from 7 Deadly Spins, released October 31, 2015

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Lynne Hanson Ottawa, Ontario

Roots music, rough-around-the-edges folk. Canadian songwriter Lynne Hanson prefers “porch music with a little red dirt.” Hanson's songs are like a favorite pair of jeans. They're faded and worn through in spots, with a bit of honestly-acquired grit ground into the seams. ... more

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