Henry Teel

from Memory & Magic by Gatsbys Green Light

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Based on the Andrew Wyeth paintings:
Henry Teel (1945)-
www.andrewwyeth.org/images/gallery3/Henry-Teel-1945.jpg
Teel's Island (1954)-
www.andrewwyeth.org/images/paintings/Teel-Island.jpg

Coupled with Johnny Cash's recollections of his childhood within Cash by Johnny Cash.

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At home in my chair
Where white walls are aging to beige
Side-board serves seven though
The tables always for one

Maybe they’ll send me a postcard
To this long forgotten land
As I gaze out this open window
Watch this ground continue to change

We come from the soil
To there I’ll recoil
Will they all come to hear, hear, hear
Of old Henry Teel

Summers spend out on the water
In this boat I built to cast lines
As it's returning at once to pieces
The grass continues to climb

Feet were toughened like leather
Ripe tomatoes stolen straight from the vines
Green peas prized from their pockets
Where childhood had no sense of time

We came from the soil
To there I’ll recoil
Will they all come to hear, hear, hear
Of old Henry Teel

So I’ll pack for the city
Ponder the adventures I’ll find
Brace bare feet on concrete walkways
With my old punt far behind

We came from the soil
To there I’ll recoil
Will they all come to hear, hear, hear
Of old Henry Teel

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from Memory & Magic, released January 10, 2013

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