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Marcelena

from Graveyards Wind & War by Bart Moore

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For Mrs Carp, the old witch (from the old neighborhood)

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MARCELENA

The children of the town all live in fear
They always know when Marcelena’s here
There’s a sharp smell of grenadine
And hydrogen sulfide when she’s near

One night when she assumed she was alone
We watched her dig and burn her sister’s bones
My mother always said it’s best
To never know where Marcelena’s going

And Marcelena told me how she prayed to Mother Night
How under cloak of darkness, she grew wings & then took flight
She told me how she killed her prey & ate it from a bowl
That’s the way that Marcelena rolls

I guess I wasn’t more than nine or ten
I saw her in the backyard with her men
My mother always said it’s best
To never know where Marcelena’s been

Marcelena Marcelena
I can hear you from my window laughing
Like a ghost out in the rain

The children of the town all live in dread
When Marcelena talks inside their heads
They never realized just what she was
Till ten years after she was dead

Marcelena talks but never speaks
She lives inside the wounded and the weak
She travels in that no-mans-land
That lies between hell’s ditch & Heaven’s peak

And Marcelena told me how she prayed to Mother Night
How under cloak of darkness, she grew wings & then took flight
She told me how she killed her prey & ate it from a bowl
That’s the way that Marcelena rolls

She rolls

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from Graveyards Wind & War, released May 25, 2022
Bart Moore - acoustic guitar & vocal
Skip vonKuske - cello

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Bart Moore Grand Ledge, Michigan

Bart Moore weds native influences of the Pogues, Tom Waits &Basement Tapes-era Dylan to a headfull of images singularly his own.

"No one writes like Moore: setting scenes using peculiar lyrical details, tying slipknots in the human timeline; history intertwines with the present, bringing death to life. All that comes into play on Graveyards, Wind, & War." ___ Kevin Curtin, Austin Chronicle ... more

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