Music

That Child Is Gone

drumkit - gerald dowd
bass fiddle - john abbey
electric guitar - grant tye
acoustic guitar and vocal - robbie fulks
cello - fred lonberg-holm
accordion - john williams
organ - chris neville

A revenge song with a heavy and (I hope) purposeful momentum. This was a gang performance with a vocal in the room, and there was so much bleed that the idea came to me to have a one-track mix -- just the vocal with the various picked-up sounds of the other instruments behind it. Just the kind of idea proudly professional music engineers love. OK, so we didn't totally do it that way in the end -- but 90% we did.

Lyrics

Run from nor refuse me
I have traveled far tonight
Old man, step toward me
Let me see you in the light

Done your noonday raging
Your footsteps cold behind you
Now the years lie silent and revealed
And your blue-eyed burden
Oh can’t you see him yonder
Standing in a bone-dry Georgia field

CHORUS:
That child is gone
The child you wronged
And as sure as night follows day
He’ll rise up strong
That child is gone
Father, get down on your knees and pray

Oh the cries they carried
Through the screen door open wide
Still a breeze comes drifting
From that distant dark July

Did you cast the first blow
On Mother’s weary shoulders
Did you leave for Texas on a train
Did some dancehall angel
Weep for her vanished lover
Did you put your child out in the rain

CHORUS

Guitar Chords/Tab

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