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Flowers on her Grave

from The Poor Devil by Silas J. Dirge

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This country murder ballad tells the horrid story of Rosie’s revengeful ghost and the peculiar misfortunes she brings upon those who get too close to her grave.

This song was the first single to be released ahead of my second album The Poor Devil.

You can find the claymation video we made on YouTube.

lyrics

Rosie had a troubled mind
Engaged to Jim, he was the murderous kind
She left him at the altar and he had killed for less
He buried her in her wedding dress

Don’t you go there
When there’s flowers on her grave
Don’t you go there
On her wedding day
Her wedding day

But Jim, in a melancholic wave
Took his guitar to play at her grave
‘Twas a year to the day and remorseful Jim
was found hanging by a guitar string

Don’t you go there
When there’s flowers on her grave
Don’t you go there
On her wedding day
Her wedding day

One year some cattle grazed near her stone
The spooked wrangler passed out, fell and broke his bones
He came by arms and legs tied to four of his cows
One pulled east, one west, one north and one south

Don’t you go there
When there’s flowers on her grave
Don’t you go there
On her wedding day
Her wedding day

They once tried to dig old Rosie up
To take her far away and make this thing stop
Three men armed with shovels, they never came home
Since then there’s four names written on her stone

Don’t you go there
When there’s flowers on her grave
Don’t you go there
Don’t you go there
When there’s flowers on her grave
Don’t you go there
On her wedding day
Her wedding day
On her wedding day
Her wedding day

credits

from The Poor Devil, track released September 27, 2019
Music and lyrics by Jan Kooiker

Jan Kooiker: vocals, acoustic guitar
Harald de Ruiter: electric guitars
Jan Paul de Bondt: pedal steel
Nicole Schouten: backing vocals
Justin Zandbergen: backing vocals

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Silas J. Dirge Amsterdam, Netherlands

"Silas J. Dirge offers roots-infused poetry set to sparse arrangements that deftly conveys the hidden beauty behind dark roots music" - Saving Country Music

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