Swimming Hole

by Stovepipe's Caravan

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Written by Justin "Stovepipe" Stover
Copyright 2020, Devil's Music Publishing

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She was a butcher, he was a teacher
They met at church
Introduced by the preacher

And yes it most surely
Was Love at first site
The kind that gives you
Butterflies

They kissed in the courtyard
Walked and held hands
Because of her job
Hers had blood on them

But he didn’t mind
As long as he saw her
And every night they two would go


Chorus: Down to the old swimming hole
That old swimming hole
Baptized in each other
With the moon’s silver glow
That old swimming hole


Well those glimmers of love
The beat in your heart
The youthful illusions
The “never shall we part”


They flicker like candles
With a dying flame
The boredom goes around
Like blame

He didn’t mind it
It was easier by far
He put on a few pounds
Spent time at the bar

But once in a while
That old love would show
They’d follow the winds that would blow


CHorus:


Well some say she snapped like
A piece of dry wood
Some say the devil swam inside her blood

The charitable said she’d just had enough
That the teacher, her lover, turned her light off


With her trusty work knife that she used at the shop
And an axe she inherited from her pop
She taught him a lesson he sure didn’t know
Then sent his body far down below

Into that old swimming hole
When true love is dying, there’s one place left to go
To that old swimming hole

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released July 7, 2020
Justin Stover; vox, rhythm guitar, harmonica, mandolin
Silas J. Dirge/Jan Kooiker: Electric guitar, slide guitar

Cover Art: C.R. Warner

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Stovepipe is a one man band, singer-songwriter, soap maker, and occultist from Michigan, Maine, and Hell. Influences include Tom Waits, Springsteen, Patti Smith, Stephen King, folk, and punk.

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