Harrisburg Lyrics - Josh Ritter

Romero got married on the fifth of July 

In our Lady of Immaculate Dawn 

Could have got married in the revival man's tent 

But there ain't no reviving what's gone 

Slipped like a shadow from the family he made 

In a little white house by the woods 

Dropped the kids at the mission, with a rose for the virgin 

She knew he was gone for good 

It's a long way to Heaven, it's closer to Harrisburg 

And that's still a long way from the place where we are 

And if evil exists its a pair of train tracks 

And the devil is a railroad car 

Could have stayed somewhere but the train tracks kept going 

And it seems like they always left soon 

and the wolves that he ran with they moaned low and painful 

sang sad misery's to the moon 

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Rose at the altar withered and wilted 

Romero sank into a dream 

He didn't make Heaven, he didn't make Harrisburg 

He died in a hole in between 

Some say that man is the root of all evil 

Others say God's a drunkard for pain 

Me I believe that the Garden of Eden 

Was burned to make way for a train 

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