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['Round my Indiana homestead, wave the cornfields. / In the distance, loom the woodlands deep and cool. / Oftentimes, my thoughts return to scenes from schildhood: / out climbin' trees and dancin' like a fool. / But still, there's one thing from the picture missin'. / Without her face, it seems so incomplete. / How I long to see my mother in the doorway, / sayin' don't forget to wash your hands and wipe those feet.]

I’m old enough to see her ghosts a-walking,
like strains of jazz, through arboretum haze.
Every rose wears a sleeve of thorn,
but this bud knows where he was born;
in a redwood house his mother’s daddy raised.

The time has come to make this rose my home.
I’ve memories enough to hold me here:
my mother’s garden, my father’s grave,
the wood where young boys misbehave.
This Richmond, Indiana holds me here.

The railroad bridge, behind the Spring Grove Heights;
she’s the backbone of the deep Whitewater Gorge.
I used to step between her ties
and scale the gorge with wand’ry eyes,
looking for the path next noon to forge.

Falls Thistlewaite, I skinny-dipped below you,
with lovers, when my love was still sincere.
The mill is gone now, miller too,
whose gristle cut your heart in two.
Falls Thistlewaite, your heartache holds me here.

I never thought this day would come to pass.
I never dreamed I’d hold you for my own.
I left your arms for Ithaca,
for Salem, where the seagulls caw.
I’ve always dreamed, but Richmond is my home.
I’ll always hold her roses dear, my own.

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from Live at Rachael's Cafe - June 29, 2013, released July 1, 2013
Opening verse adapted from Paul Dresser's "On the banks of the Wabash, Far Away." The remainder was written and arranged by Joe Augustin.

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