Northern Town

by Trissy Esdaile

Genre: Folk/Acoustic

Lyrics

Used to think I was brash.
Used to think I was brazen.
Very first dream of life elsewhere and I’d be up leaving.
Run round the block,
Come back kicking and screaming.
Nowhere to go when you’re fearful, forlorn and freezing.

If you’d waltzed with me
Cross those winter time prairies
I’d have laid at your feet forever, happily weary.
But you turned me down.
Your mother was wary
Of a girl who’d live long by your side
But never would marry.

When the lights go down on a Northern town
All around snow’s falling down.
Snow’s falling down
And burying me.
Burying me.

Oh Lord, it’s burying me.
I told the moon
I loved you too much to stray.
Well the stars started jumping and gleaming
Getting ready to play.

Come on now darling,
Is it all you can say?
Each night we all know you lay there.
You wish him away.

When the lights go down on a Northern town
All around snow’s falling down.
Snow’s falling down
And burying me.
Burying me.
Oh Lord, it’s burying me.