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Devils Creek

from Trailways by Steve O'Connell

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Across the hills near Devil’s Creek
There’s a secret that I keep.
Allegheny dark and deep.
My Mary-Anne
Is lying cold and fast asleep.

I always knew she was the one.
Her face could warm the darkest sun.
They said we married much too young.
But where’s the sense
when you’re only twenty-one.

We found a place to settle down.
A single ranch a rust belt town.
It wasn’t much but we were proud
Of what we’d done.
We’d prove ‘em wrong
We’d show ‘em how.

I’ll start nights and pick up days.
Poundin’ steel with the 108.
And you’ll be free to finish school
Then have a baby, maybe two?

Oh what have I done?

But the union went on strike.
Forty days no end in sight.
So I would drink and stay out nights.
My father’s son
I was doomed to lose both fights.

When winter came they shut it down.
The cold moved in and froze this town.
And I was no where to be found.
Poor Mary-Anne
Could only watch the light burn out.

Oh what have I done?

I never felt the coward type.
But I surely was that night.
Drunk as hell I stumbled in
Found Mary-Anne
In my home with another man.

Pulled the shotgun off the wall.
Pulled the trigger watched him fall.
Swung the butt end of the gun.
She hit the floor
Before I knew what I had done.

Oh what I have I done?

Across the hills near Devil’s Creek
There’s a secret that I keep.

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from Trailways, released May 7, 2021

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Songwriter Steve O'Connell and producer, multi- instrumentalist Joshua Wentz weave folk pop dreamscapes as Silvergirl.

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