The Night That John Prine Died

	  		
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In these times each day feels like the next 
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But just tonight my old friend Richard sent a tearful text 
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I could feel his sorrow on the screen, wondering if I 
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Heard the news tonight that John Prine died 


 

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He seemed to pluck his songs out of thin air 
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They told of tiny triumphs and lives filled with dispair 
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Complex in their simplicity, so honest and so true 
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Just what every writer wished that they could do 


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There's an Angel from Montgomery that's finally taken wing 
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And a place up there called paradise where even Sam Stone sings 
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Where the losers, lovers, loners have gathered round the throne 
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In a mighty choir to welcome John Prine home 



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I remember a night a bar in Cambridge town 
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The band took a break, we took the stage and shut the whole place down 
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It was Stevie Goodman's birthday, just eight years since he died 
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We sang drank and remembered, we laughed and then we cried 
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Just like tonight when I heard that John Prine died 



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There's an Angel from Montegomery thats finally taken wing 
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And a place up there called paradise where even Sam Stone sings 
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Where the losers, lovers, loners have gatherd round the throne 
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In a mighty choir to welcome John Prine home 




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Tonight I sit here thinking bout the stories we tell 
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And the blessed few who really do make heaven outta hell 
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So say hello to Stevie I aint ready for ya yet 
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In the meantime I know you'll enjoy that nine mile cigarette 




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There's an Angel from Montegomery thats finally taken wing 
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And a place up there called paradise where even Sam Stone sings 
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Where the losers, lovers, loners have gatherd round the throne 
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In a mighty choir to welcome John Prine home 

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Oh the losers, lovers, loners have gathered round the throne 
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In a mighty choir to welcome John Prine home