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Three Pawn Shops

from Three Pawn Shops by Eric Dahl

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Three Pawn Shops – Ginger Schults worked at the Austin Federation of Musicians to negotiate payments to Texas songwriters for their performances in movies. I flew to her funeral in Arkansas, and when I got there, was asked to sing at her service. So, I bought a guitar in a local pawnshop, sang at the funeral home, and later wrote this song.

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Three Pawn Shops

© 2021 by Eric Dahl

There are three pawn shops in Harrison, Arkansas,
Where I found this guitar.
Felt like singing a phrase or two,
Never thought I’d get this far.
They played Johnny Cash on cassette
At the funeral home,
Someone called out, “Amen.”
This is the way we lay our people down,
Until they rise again.

Darlin come home to this Arkansas mountain.
We’ll take you up the gravel road –
To your father and brother
Buried on that mountain top,
Long black car with its precious load,
Long black car with its precious load.

There’s a green shingle house
quarter mile from the graveyard,
Corrugated roof and an endless Ozark view.
If anyone was getting out of this valley,
Ginger, it was you.
Tell us how you lived all the way down in Texas,
Getting songwriters paid for their work on the screen.
Pastor read a letter from the Austin Music Union,
There’s a bouquet on the alter from Robert Earl Keen.

Darlin come home to this Arkansas mountain.
We’ll take you up the gravel road –
With your Aztec prince from San Antonio,
Long black car with its precious load,
Long black car with its precious load.

As we passed slowly
On the Boone County highway,
A farmer stops his tractor
In respect for the dead,
Looks down a plow row
As the cars come by from Harrison,
Slides a seed cap from his head.
I have no claim but my memory
Of running with you in these hills.
I said, “Ginger, magic girl,
Will you ever come back?”
You said, “If and when god wills.”

Darlin come home to this Arkansas mountain.
We’ll take you up the gravel road –
To your father and your brother
Buried on the mountain top,
Long black car with its precious load,
Long black car with its precious load.

There are three pawn shops in Harrison, Arkansas,
Where I found this guitar.

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from Three Pawn Shops, released January 21, 2022

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Eric Dahl Seattle, Washington

His music ranges from acoustic neo-rockabilly to thoughtful and reflective with a voice somewhere between Johnny Cash and Lou Reed.

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