Ashes

In the woods down by the shore

No one lives here anymore

She would watch the barges run

Floating white pine by the ton

In the days before the fire

She would marry her first love

She would draw the mother's ire

Calling Jesus from above

She was venus in a pocket

She would burn without a flame

Every sister went out walking

Every brother knew her name

In the streets of sap and sawdust

She would meet the old man's eye

Daddy's favored native daughter

Underneath a white hot sky

Hey

Old mill burned the town away

Hey

Ashes on the river bay

Gotta get that first train out