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The Handsome Family - Far From Any Road
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The Handsome Family - Dry Bones
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The Handsome Family - Weightless Again
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The Handsome Family - My Beautiful Bride
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The Handsome Family - A Dark Eye
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The Handsome Family - Arlene
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The Handsome Family - Darling, My Darling
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The Handsome Family - Gold
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The Handsome Family - Here's Hopin
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The Handsome Family - Love Is Like
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The Handsome Family - The Forgotten Lake
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The Handsome Family - The King Who Wouldn't Smile
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The Handsome Family - 24-Hour Store
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The Handsome Family - 3-Legged Dog
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The Handsome Family - A Beautiful Thing
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The Handsome Family - A Shadow Underneath
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The Handsome Family - A Thousand Diamond Rings
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The Handsome Family - After We Shot The Grizzly...
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The Handsome Family - All The Time In Airports...
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The Handsome Family - Amelia Earhart Vs The Dancing Bear
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The Handsome Family - Back In My Day
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The Handsome Family - Beautiful William...
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The Handsome Family - Birds You Can Not See
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The Handsome Family - Bowling Alley Bar....
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The Handsome Family - Bury Me Here
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The Handsome Family - Caterpillars
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The Handsome Family - Cathedrals
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The Handsome Family - Claire Said
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The Handsome Family - Cold, Cold, Cold
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The Handsome Family - Don't Be Scared
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The Handsome Family - Down In The Ground
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The Handsome Family - Down In The Valley Of Hollow Logs
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The Handsome Family - Down In The Winding Corn Maze
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The Handsome Family - Drunk By Noon
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The Handsome Family - Eels
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The Handsome Family - Emily Shore 1819-1839
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The Handsome Family - Everything That Rises Must Converge
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The Handsome Family - Fallen Peaches
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The Handsome Family - Flapping Your Broken Wings...
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The Handsome Family - Flies
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The Handsome Family - Frogs
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The Handsome Family - Gail With The Golden Hair
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The Handsome Family - Gentlemen
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The Handsome Family - Giant Ant
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The Handsome Family - Glow Worm
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The Handsome Family - Gorilla
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The Handsome Family - Grandmother Waits For You
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The Handsome Family - Gravity
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The Handsome Family - Green Willow Valley
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The Handsome Family - Gulls
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The Handsome Family - Hunter Green...
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The Handsome Family - I Fell
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The Handsome Family - I Know You Are There
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The Handsome Family - If The World Should End In Fire
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The Handsome Family - If The World Should End In Ice
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The Handsome Family - In The Air
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The Handsome Family - June Bugs
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The Handsome Family - King Of Dust
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The Handsome Family - Lake Geneva
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The Handsome Family - Last Night I Went Out Walking
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The Handsome Family - Lie Down
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The Handsome Family - Linger, Let Me Linger
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The Handsome Family - Little Sparrows
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The Handsome Family - Lizard
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The Handsome Family - Moving Furniture Around
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The Handsome Family - My Friend
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The Handsome Family - My Ghost
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The Handsome Family - My Sister's Tiny Hands
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The Handsome Family - No One Fell Asleep Alone
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The Handsome Family - No.1 Country Song
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The Handsome Family - Octopus
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The Handsome Family - One Way Up
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The Handsome Family - Our Blue Sky...
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The Handsome Family - Owls
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The Handsome Family - Passenger Pigeons
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The Handsome Family - Peace In The Valley Once Again
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The Handsome Family - Pony
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The Handsome Family - Poor, Poor Lenore
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The Handsome Family - Sleepy
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The Handsome Family - So Long
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The Handsome Family - So Much Wine
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The Handsome Family - Somewhere Else To Be
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The Handsome Family - Spider
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The Handsome Family - Stalled
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The Handsome Family - Tesla's Hotel Room...
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The Handsome Family - The Bottomless Hole
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The Handsome Family - The Dutch Boy
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The Handsome Family - The Giant Of Illinois
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The Handsome Family - The House Carpenter
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The Handsome Family - The Last
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The Handsome Family - The Loneliness Of Magnets
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The Handsome Family - The Petrified Forest
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The Handsome Family - The Red Door
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The Handsome Family - The Sad Milkman
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The Handsome Family - The Sea Rose
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The Handsome Family - The Silver Light
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The Handsome Family - The Snow White Diner
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The Handsome Family - The Song Of a Hundred Toads
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The Handsome Family - The Woman Downstairs
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The Handsome Family - There Is a Sound
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The Handsome Family - These Golden Jewels...
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The Handsome Family - Tin Foil
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The Handsome Family - Tiny Tina
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The Handsome Family - Trial Of Time
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The Handsome Family - Tvs In Town
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The Handsome Family - Underneath The Falls
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The Handsome Family - Up Falling Rock Hill
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The Handsome Family - Water Into Wine
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The Handsome Family - When That Helicopter Comes
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The Handsome Family - When You Whispered
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The Handsome Family - Where The Birch Trees Lean
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The Handsome Family - White Dog
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The Handsome Family - White Lights
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The Handsome Family - Whitehaven
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The Handsome Family - Wild Wood
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The Handsome Family - Wildebeest
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The Handsome Family - Winnebago Skeletons
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The Handsome Family - Woodpecker
Glow Worm
The Handsome Family
Once a year the cold mists clear and you can see inside the earth
High in that crystal palace I built a sailing ship
Mast and wheel of polished brass, sails of golden silk
I piped the engine steam, I set velocitations
I consulted dusty maps, set careful calibrations
Ever inward ever in, peering through my scope
I sailed deep into the hollows, deep inside the earth
I traveled a boiling river through streams of mercury
Underneath volcanoes and the roots of ancient trees
Underneath stalactites I lit phosphorus lamps
Sparks snapped into the air and coiled up the mast
I watched enormous birds diving through the slate
As I stood upon the prow in my oilskin cap and cape
At last my anchor caught and echoed through the stone
And I climbed an old rope ladder miles through the gloam
Then up above I saw it, a glowworm’s little light
And I reached out and caught it in the center of the night
Tightly in my fist I held that glowing worm
Deep down in the hollows I held the center of the world
Lizard
Granny green was stooped as a windblown branch
She lived high in the bramble forest
Once a fortnight, if the moon shone right she came down to our little village
She brought blackberries and willow bark, mandrake root and mushrooms
And it was said she spoke the tongue of birds
And understood the river’s whispers
Now several girls among our town by a golden lizard they were bitten
And those sweet girls lay stiff in their beds like frozen ice up on the branches
Granny green mixed a tonic for their ills but it was such a bitter tonic
All who drank began to dance and could not stop their dancing
But none would have danced one sinful step
If that old crone had not bewitched us
How we leaped and pranced and cackled, the whole town writhing madmen
And so desperate grew some to still their feet they dove into the raging river
Still we danced on day and night till our fine clothes were torn and ragged
And crying out, “oh, lord, make us stop!” we danced naked round the chapel
How granny laughed to see such sin.
“It’s just water,” she said, “in my tonic!”
But all cried out, “she lies! She surely lies!” and chased her deep into the bramble
But like the four winds she disappeared
Though we searched round and round the branches
Rolling in leaves and naked ‘neath the trees we lost the way back to our village
But I swear we were all pure of heart till that old crone did bewitch us
And I know we will all go home, when the good lord returns to save us