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Boneman's Daughter

from The Midnight Contingent by Cheshire Moon

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lyrics

A bag of dreams rattled at her side
And she clutched it to her chest
For she knew this night would be
A fearsome kind of test

A craggy oak sat gnarled and angry
Struck by lightning long ago
And against its trunk an old man stood
With a face only her dreams seemed to know…
Pappa Legba stood at the crossroads

Child would you take a chance
on a game that time called old?
Tattered dreams hanging from the cottonwood

Would could you find your way
Into the Boneman’s dance
Would you call his name?
Roll the bones…

Child, what brings you here
To see me on this night?
For many walk the Way,
And would give Ma Chere a fright

She reached into her father’s pouch
And pulled a single bone
Fat and cracked and broken,
She whispered, ‘Because he’s gone…’

Child would you take a chance
on a game that time called old?
Shattered schemes hanging from the cottonwood

Child, would you know the way
Into the Boneman’s dance
Will you know just when
To take that chance?
Roll the bones…

Pappa threw his head back
In a laughter that shook the earth
‘you have the tools to aid you
You just don’t’ know their worth

Indeed I know your father, child
And I’ll always call him friend
But his day is past, your time has come
For journeys of blood never end

In a single breath she stood alone
Upon the darkened road
The gnarled oak before her
Stood silent, still and cold

She laid that fat and broken bone
Upon that tree so wild
She turned away
No longer a child

Light upon your feet
Never on the road
You cannot trust your eyes
Take a step, and only then will you know…
Roll the bones

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from The Midnight Contingent, released April 22, 2017

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Cheshire Moon Ames, Iowa

Cheshire Moon is a fanciful melding of trickster bird Lizzie Crowe and mad hatter Eric Coleman.

These two-time Pegasus Award recipients are part of the growing music genre known as MythPunk, bringing old gods and folk tales into modern day, and bringing faerie tale princesses into the light of dark magic.

They weave journeys of song and story, bringing their listeners along for the ride. ... more

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