Lyrics
The Johnson County Fair tent smelled of diesel and rain,
You traced the gold letters that spelled out your name.
The way that blue satin felt cool on your thumb in the heat,
A perfect-edged promise on Sycamore Street.
[Chorus]
And you hold it up to the sun
The best thing that ever happened to you
And it was.
[Verse 2]
Grandma squeezed your shoulder, said, "You got the gift, it's true."
Her knuckles a cross-stitch of worry and blue.
You saw your own exit in that cheap, gilded trim,
A neatly-sewn future, escaping on a whim.
[Chorus]
And you hold it up to the sun
The best thing that ever happened to you
And it was.
[Bridge]
That ribbon's a bookmark in Jesse's worn-out Dr. Seuss,
A frayed piece of August you can't quite turn loose.
[Outro]
The best thing.
And it was.
About Loretta Hayes
Loretta Hayes was supposed to leave Paintsville, Kentucky, but had her son, Jesse, at eighteen instead. Now, at twenty-eight, she pays the bills by mending clothes for her neighbors, a skill she learned from her grandmother. The songs she writes on her granddaddy’s old Gibson aren’t about fame or fortune; they’re about the exhaustion of a double shift, the ghosts of old promises, and the fierce…
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