Resurrection Fern lyrics by Irma Thomas
Resurrection Fern by Irma Thomas
In our days we will live like our ghosts will live
Pitching glass at the cornfield crows and folding clothes
Like stubborn boys across the road, we'll keep everything
Grandma's gun and the black bear claw that took her dog
And when sister Lowery says "Amen," we won't hear anything
The ten-car train will take that word, that fledgling bird
And the fallen house across the way, it'll keep everything
The baby's breath, our bravery wasted and our shame
And we'll undress beside the ashes of the fire
Both our tender bellies wound in baling wire
All the more a pair of underwater pearls
Than the oak tree and it's resurrection fern
In our days, we will say what our ghosts will say
"We gave the world what it saw fit, and what'd we get?"
Like stubborn boys with big green eyes, we'll see everything
In the timid shade of the autumn leaves and the buzzard's wing
Then we'll undress beside the ashes of the fire
Our tender bellies all wound around in baling wire
All the more a pair of underwater pearls
Than the oak tree and it's resurrection fern
Popular Songs
It's A Man's Man's Man's World
by James Brown I Feel Good
by James Brown Do-Re-Mi
by Sound Of Music Rainbow Connection
by Muppets So Long, Farewell
by Sound Of Music Sixteen Going On Seventeen
by Sound Of Music You Give Me Fever
by Peggy Lee The heart of worship
by Matt Redman Time Warp
by Horror Rocky The Rocky Road To Dublin
by Dubliners
by James Brown I Feel Good
by James Brown Do-Re-Mi
by Sound Of Music Rainbow Connection
by Muppets So Long, Farewell
by Sound Of Music Sixteen Going On Seventeen
by Sound Of Music You Give Me Fever
by Peggy Lee The heart of worship
by Matt Redman Time Warp
by Horror Rocky The Rocky Road To Dublin
by Dubliners
A-Z Lyrics Universe
Lyrics / song texts are property and copyright of their owners and provided for educational purposes.