Maria Sugarcane-Brian Wright

[ti:Maria Sugarcane] [ar:Brian Wright] [al:House On Fire] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Maria Sugarcane - Brian Wright [00:13.49]In the south end of the county [00:15.64] [00:16.41]Near the highway and the trains [00:18.12] [00:19.17]There's a river long since dried [00:21.23] [00:21.89]A river just the same [00:23.73] [00:24.61]When I was just a boy [00:27.14]I would the lie there on it's banks [00:29.17] [00:29.84]With my brother and the summer [00:32.02] [00:32.81]And Maria Sugarcane [00:34.36] [00:39.39]And my brother was born shaky [00:41.49] [00:42.07]And he wore our father's rage [00:43.94] [00:44.76]And he stumbled through the autumn [00:46.61] [00:47.23]Underneath the winter's weight [00:49.45] [00:50.04]And he rode a motorcycle [00:52.19] [00:52.73]That he'd drive down to the banks [00:54.66] [00:55.37]Of the river in the summer [00:58.13]With Maria Sugarcane [01:00.22] [01:05.26]And how they loved each other [01:07.42]And that love was wild as hope [01:09.52] [01:10.34]And none would come between [01:12.43] [01:13.10]My father's wandering ghost [01:15.06] [01:15.97]And I had seen him beat her [01:18.32] [01:18.89]Time and time before [01:20.62] [01:21.55]But as I loved my brother [01:23.49] [01:24.10]I loved Maria so much more [01:28.05] [01:32.13]I loved her young and pretty [01:34.80]And I loved her wild and strong [01:37.04] [01:37.59]And I'd never loved another [01:39.56] [01:40.48]I'd loved her for so long [01:42.04] [01:43.27]And never would I hurt her [01:45.78]Never see her meet with harm [01:47.55] [01:48.43]When I told her how I'd found him [01:50.70] [01:51.32]She fell into my arms [01:53.34] [01:57.90]Told her how I'd found him [02:00.24]Down there by the river banks [02:02.30] [02:03.28]That the angels were around him [02:05.92]But that I was just too late [02:08.03] [02:08.90]And they carried him off to heaven [02:11.07] [02:11.64]My father's sins and all [02:13.76] [02:14.47]But I did not hear the shot [02:16.28] [02:17.15]And I did not see him fall [02:19.02] [02:23.98]And Maria loved my brother [02:26.56]With her purest bluest eyes [02:28.45] [02:29.45]And he carried it in paper [02:31.31] [02:32.02]And it never left his side [02:33.85] [02:34.81]And I married her two summers past [02:37.28] [02:37.81]The year my brother died [02:39.46] [02:40.54]And though sometimes I hear her [02:42.53] [02:43.32]I've never seen her cry [02:45.11] [02:50.06]And I know Maria loves me [02:52.72]But it just ain't the same [02:54.44] [02:55.23]As the way she loved my brother [02:57.96]In those summers on the banks [03:00.15] [03:00.84]Of the river long since dried up [03:03.00] [03:03.76]Maria Sugarcane [03:05.53] [03:06.13]In the south end of the county [03:08.96]Near the highway and the trains [03:10.98] [03:15.57]In the south end of the county [03:18.16]Near the highway and the trains [03:20.18] [03:21.10]There's a river long since dried up [03:23.70]But a river just the same [03:25.55] [03:26.20]And that's where I found my brother [03:28.47] [03:29.03]And Maria's one true love [03:31.50] [03:32.12]I knew that I would kill him [03:34.17] [03:34.77]And Maria she would come [03:36.66] [04:05.56]In the corner of the graveyard [04:07.81]Near the spot my brother lays [04:10.00] [04:10.87]Far past the noble families [04:12.93] [04:13.84]Two more plots are saved [04:15.50] [04:16.56]When I and fair Maria [04:18.49] [04:19.34]Seen our final days [04:21.11] [04:22.05]May they bury her between us [04:24.17] [04:24.80]Maria Sugarcane