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Emily Brown - Joe​/​Dorthella​/​John​/​Mable

from Lasso by Song Club Sampler

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Joe Bassett was a cowboy, roping since the Lord gave life
But he made a mountain home once sweet Dorthella was his wife
She was brown haired she was bright eyed she was kind as kind can be
And she bore the baby girl who bore my mama who bore me.

Still he drove those dusty roads went roping cattle all year round
And in Madison Square Garden he performed before the crowd
Oh at home he'd smile and twinkle, whittle toys out with his knife
Till that man who was a father left with someone else's wife

Chorus
Take this longing, we don't like it anymore
We don't want it, we don't know what you laid it on us for
Wanting wandering wondering where it is
I’d love to sit down be still and feel forgiveness

Oh my grandma was a girl then, frilly dressed and ribbon haired
And she watched her mother buckle under weight too great to bear
And that woman left her husband also lonesome and bereft
Johnny too was broken hearted; he was grieving like the rest

Now I do not know the details, they’ve been buried in the ground,
But I think to share the suffering, sometimes John would call around
How does love come out of parting? How do smiles come out of tears?
Broken pieces glued together grow enamored through the years

Chorus

Oh Dorthella married Johnny and the woman married Joe
While their grandchildren were growing up they didn’t even know
Built their homesteads in the mountains, and their children lived their lives
Till the woman called years later begging to apologize

Chorus

Time can make so much a difference, wear the mountains into dust
Takes the ink right off the paper, covers chromium in rust
Turn a feud into a friendship, turns a house into a home
Yet a word can heal the heart that’s gone untouched by time alone

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from Lasso, released October 1, 2016

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