Chrysanthemum Lyrics

The wind tumbles with mirth

Shaking the buzzing earth

Gossamer veils of Hobo spider's glisten

Six a.m. at sunrise

There he laid with tired eyes

Across an abandoned road

His lips cracked like the desert plains

Tried telling me he forgot his name

But he remembered his sweet Lorraine

I bought her some chrysanthemum earrings

Laughed and it turned to a cough

Her father's gone and she needed some cheering up"It was their shared favorite flower"

Shaking he began to weep"I must have gotten lost on the way

That was twenty-five years ago today""But I still have them in my bag

Could you give them to her, that'd be grand"

He gave me no name and no address

And he died right there all alone

I took the earrings and put them in a frame

I searched for the owner for days

But with no leads it was just a wild chase

And it sits on my mantle above the fireplace

To this day

To this day