Ring on a String

by Spectator Bird

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They named me Hester Clarene Vickers
But they called me something else
Feels like forever that I've lived here
With your pictures on shelf

With a ring on a string
Around my neck
It's from my sweet one
He just laid down to rest

When I was 28, went on a blind date
As a favor to a friend
Man in a thunderbird, shirt sleeves rolled under
Your grandfather, you know the rest

Now I wear a ring on a string
Like all my old friends did
I think it was thought up
By one of their kids

Did I tell you that my daughter made me
This strawberry cake
And that there are some lessons you have to
Just learn by mistake

So I wear a ring on a string
Just in case
Everything I touch these days,
I seem to misplace

I lost a brother, a son and husband
To different kinds of wars
But let's talk of other things,
Like the sun bursting
Through the clouds after a storm

And my granddaughter
Painted these bluebirds
A paint by number for my shelf
They named me Hester Clarene Vickers
But they call me something else

credits

released March 2, 2019
Lindsey FitzGerald: Vocals, guitar
Rachel FitzGerald: Vocals
Chad Altenberger: Bass, percussion
Written by Lindsey FitzGerald

Recorded by Gabriel Taylor at Packing Shed Records in Lovingston, VA. Many thanks to Rapunzel's 15th Annual Songwriting Competition and the Further Ado Foundation for making the recording time possible.

Mixed and mastered by Chad Altenberger at Three Arrows Sound in Harrisonburg, VA.

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