Ruby Dear

from Junebug by Jon Charles Dwyer

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I was sending my love and hope into a lonesome valley so low.
It kept coming back with fangs.
Wrapping its claws around my waist.
You learn to dance with your disgrace.

Buried low in the cold ground, dead weight on the vines.
My Ruby was in the mountain, she was begging for me to climb.
I spit in the dirt she came from and wiped away my blind.
Ruby dear of the mountain, how you shine.
How you shine.

I weighed out my sins for warmth.
Became some ghost beneath the floor
With one too many bones
To walk on through what I used to know.
You learn to lay with the filth in your bones.

Buried low in the cold ground, dead weight on the vines.
My Ruby was in the mountain, she was begging for me to climb.
I spit in the dirt she came from and wiped away my blind.
Ruby dear of the mountain, how you shine.
How you shine.

Ruby is the color,
Ruby is the color,
Ruby is the color of my heart once gray.

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from Junebug, track released January 29, 2021
Fiddle: Alex Travers

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Jon Charles Dwyer Asheville, North Carolina

Jon Charles Dwyer's songs embody the spirit of the Appalachian mountains he is married to: all poverty stricken loss and desire set against the backdrop of the most beautiful springtime of love and fresh hope tumbling over those hills and down to the valleys below. ... more

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