Letter From Omaha Lyrics - Josh Ritter

Well I can't sleep with all these hand-me-downs 

Battered up chests and faded dreams 

Every new life seems to spin away 

Like sand escaping through the seams 

Send me a letter from Omaha 

Said a needle or thread could mend the tears 

But tonight the cotton fields, they 

Smell like calico 

And the color of your hair 

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Stars stand against the lonely blue 

Like pin-pricks made by midnight hands 

They tried to sew you a pure white dress 

Got tied up in the misdeeds and demands 

Cotton burned all brown and wasted 

Like an innocence fell to disrepair 

But tonight the ashes, they 

Smell like calico 

And the color of your hair 

If I could have my one and only wish 

I'd sew your hair all to the lining of my shirt 

I'd stand in the noon day clean and golden 

Not the color of the dry land dirt 

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Send me a letter from Omaha 

Said a needle or thread could mend the tears 

But tonight the sugarcane, it 

Smells like calico 

And the color of your hair