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Musical Chairs

from Dakota Arms by Tom Schroeder

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Seymour watches children play musical chairs on Halloween in Vermillion, South Dakota.

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Reeling round the ballroom with children on Halloween
Grandma leads the autumn dance in her widow's weeds
Oh, it's delirious fun, playing musical chairs
Scarecrows looking on through cornsilk hair

Music stops dead and the children scream like mad
A single brown monkey's left standing tail in hand
Grandma spreads her shawl like heavy blackbird wings
Swoops up the monkey and softly sings

A bird nest of buttons
And crabapple stems
Time is spun of such colorful thread
There's ice on the water
Apples on the ground

A left-handed woman
Counting her eggs
There's ice on the water
Apples on the ground
Dancing together and crying alone
It's all the same sound

A porcelain saucer
Of red wine and water
Faith is made of the simplest things
There's ice on the water
Apples on the ground

A hatbox of silverware
Left by the road
There's ice on the water
Apples on the ground
Dancing together and crying alone
It's all the same sound
There's ice on the water
Apples on the ground
Laughter and crying, the seasons are flying
Around and around

credits

from Dakota Arms, track released April 13, 1991
Tom Schroeder - guitar, vocal
Marisue Schuiling - vocal
Barry Mauer - violin
Jim Clifford - bass
Dave Kapell - bouzouki
Dave Herr - marimba

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