Lyrics
The key to Mrs. Able’s was under the chert rock, same as it ever was.
You slipped inside on a Tuesday, the air all dust and dried marjoram.
Straight down the splintered stairs to the cellar's damp-earth cool,
Felt along the shelf of ghosts for the last thing left of her rule.
[Chorus]
(You) And who's gonna know what the last frost took?
(Harmonies) *What the frost took...*
(You) And who's gonna tell what a good neighbor shook from the vine?
(Harmonies) *From the vine...*
[Verse 2]
One Mason jar of blackberries, the lid dated 'ninety-three.
You heard her voice clear as well water, "That one's for a real bad winter, see?"
The glass was cold against your palm, a deep and purple sin,
A sweetness she put by for good, that you just went and let yourself in.
[Chorus]
(You) And who's gonna know what the last frost took?
(Harmonies) *What the frost took...*
(You) And who's gonna tell what a good neighbor shook from the vine?
(Harmonies) *From the vine...*
[Bridge]
Her kids from down in Little Rock, they won't be coming home.
They sold the woods for timber rights and left the quiet bone.
But her knuckles planted that damn cane, bent and gnarled like roots,
And every seed a memory you're stealing with the fruits.
[Outro]
Who's gonna know?
(Harmonies) *What the frost took...*
About Kara Dalton
Kara Dalton was born in the Arkansas Ozarks and never saw a reason to leave. She plays the same cracked 1950s 12-string guitar her grandfather taught her on, its sound as raw and resonant as the hollows she calls home. She and her partner Sam, a stonemason, are slowly rebuilding an old cabin by hand on a piece of land backing up to the national forest. These songs are written on the porch after…
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