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Last Known Address

from Seven Songs EP by Cornelius Eady

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Words and Music: Cornelius Eady
Arranged by Rough Magic

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Last Known Address

John Snowden’s been pardoned
Where can we find him?
Deep in the woods, down some gully
Wind, lifting leaves
In some Potter’s field

Send the news to the ones
He loved best
Mail the letter
To his last known address.

John Snowden’s been pardoned
Who’s gonna tell him?
The un-mowed grass
On his un-marked grave,
The butterflies floating
Heavy with nectar.

Send the news to the ones
He loved best
Mail the letter
To his last known address

John Snowden’s been pardoned
Who’ll say we’re sorry?
Maryland then ain’t Maryland now,
A white girl’s dress
Was a black man’s burden.

Send the news to ones
He loved best
Mail the letter
To his last known address

John Snowden been pardoned
His hard times are over
A black man dead since 1919
A free man now,
He’s a free man now.

Send the news to the ones
He loved best
Mail the letter
To his last known address

John Snowden’s been pardoned
The insult forgiven
The technicality of a wandering eye
The skin that couldn’t hold
His alibi.

Send the news to the ones
He loved best
Mail the letter
To his last known address.

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from Seven Songs EP, released January 22, 2014
Cornelius Eady: Vocal
Robin Messing: Vocal
Concetta Abbate: Violin
Emma Alabaster: Bass
Charlie Rauh: Guitar
Leo Ferguson: Drums

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Cornelius Eady New York, New York

Cornelius Eady is the author of 8 books of poetry, lives in NYC and is the co-founder of Cave Canem. The band Rough Magic came out of the sessions for his CD/Chapbook BOOK OF HOOKS. (Kattywompus Press, Jan. 2013)

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