The Widow's Mite

from Songs From Nowhere (Volume 2: The Only Way to Build is to Tear Down) by Peter Dickson

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i was downtown late one evening
there were guitars ringing in our hands
and from our voices there came the music
to feed a dry and desperate land

i was singing on red clay halo
for a beauty i had just met
though there beside me there stood the angel
i was trying to forget

and all those rich folk there on the sidewalk
who passed by instead of hear
it was a black man in ragged clothing
who sat down to lend an ear

he spoke no words of admiration
but with a smile upon his face
from his old cup he drew forth a penny
and laid it in our guitar case

i know that bluegrass was not his music
i doubt that banjos gave him thrills
but as he left to folsom prison
he left a quarter in with the bills

i know i'll never know his story
i doubt i'll never even know his name
but of all those with whom we shared the broadway
it was he who made me glad i came

and like the widow there in the temple
who gave everything she had to give
a humble stranger an unassuming person
shows what it means to truly live

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from Songs From Nowhere (Volume 2: The Only Way to Build is to Tear Down), released December 17, 2012

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