Harrisburg-Josh Ritter

[ti:Harrisburg] [ar:Josh Ritter] [al:Golden Age Of Radio] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Harrisburg - Josh Ritter [00:11.79]Romero got married on the fifth of July [00:16.11] [00:16.91]In our Lady of Immaculate Dawn [00:20.17] [00:22.43]Could have got married in the revival man's tent [00:26.36] [00:27.04]But there ain't no reviving what's gone [00:29.92] [00:31.98]Slipped like a shadow from the family he made [00:36.86]In a little white house by the woods [00:39.99] [00:41.61]Dropped the kids at the mission [00:44.04]With a rose for the virgin [00:46.48]She knew he was gone for good [00:49.48] [00:51.42]It's a long way to Heaven [00:53.92]It's closer to Harrisburg [00:56.16] [00:56.79]And that's still a long way from the place where we are [01:00.48] [01:00.98]And if evil exists its a pair of train tracks [01:06.11]And the devil is a railroad car [01:09.36] [01:31.17]Could have stayed somewhere [01:33.29]But the train tracks kept going [01:35.55]And it seems like they always left soon [01:38.67] [01:40.54]And the wolves that he ran with [01:43.05]They moaned low and painful [01:45.15]Sang sad misereres to the moon [01:48.46] [01:50.32]It's a long way to Heaven [01:52.08] [01:52.77]It's closer to Harrisburg [01:54.89] [01:55.76]And that's still a long way from the place where we are [01:59.70]And if evil exists its a pair of train tracks [02:04.58]And the devil is a railroad car [02:07.57] [02:31.58]Rose at the altar withered and wilted [02:36.26]Romero sank into a dream [02:39.26] [02:41.08]He didn't make Heaven he didn't make Harrisburg [02:45.95]He died in a hole in between [02:48.95] [02:50.82]Some say that man is the root of all evil [02:54.90] [02:55.59]Others say God's a drunkard for pain [02:58.40] [03:00.46]Me I believe that the Garden of Eden [03:04.64]Was burned to make way for a train [03:07.83] [03:09.46]It's a long way to Heaven [03:11.83]It's closer to Harrisburg [03:14.64]And that's still a long way from the place where we are [03:18.52]And if evil exists its a pair of train tracks [03:23.01] [03:23.58]And the devil is a railroad car