Lyrics
(A cappella)
We don't say “Jimmy” down at Holt's Gin anymore
His name's a dusty cotter pin on the workshop floor
We just point at the picture from that '92 rodeo
His Levi's jacket faded out a whole lifetime ago
And we buy a round of water for the throat that ain't there
Then stare out at the salt flats and the shimmering air
[Chorus]
Is it mercy or is it murder, just to let a memory dry?
We turn our backs on another kind of ghost under the Imperial sky
[Verse 2]
Her garden by the acequia's all sandburs and hardpan now
Nobody runs her headgate, we just don't remember how
Last week, her mailbox rusted through and fell down in the heat
We just kicked it to the shoulder of Heber Road street
Someone said, "She's with her sister, up near Barstow, I suppose"
And we all just nodded, like that's a truth somebody knows
[Chorus]
Is it mercy or is it murder, just to let a memory dry?
We turn our backs on another kind of ghost under the Imperial sky
[Bridge]
Ándale pues, we say, and pour another shot of rye
The dust takes everything you don't keep watered with a lie
[Outro]
Another kind of ghost
Yeah, another kind of ghost
About Merle Hadrian
Merle Hadrian was born in Calexico, California, the son of an Okie irrigation worker and a mother from Mexicali. He spent twenty years working the same canals as his father, writing songs on a beat-up Telecaster about the borderlands he called home. After losing his wife, he cashed in his pension to make a pilgrimage to Bakersfield and record the stories of his life, turning the dust and…
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