Lyrics
The sky over Tulsa is persimmon gold
A promise the winter can't hold
Just one more perfect Saturday, I'm told
[Verse 1]
The Philco's humming "Chattanooga Choo Choo" low
Grandfather's sanding down a cypress board, making the grain show
He planes the edges so the joinery is true
Says, "A good fit's honest, son, it'll see you through"
The air out here smells like cold iron and coming snow
[Chorus]
The sky over Tulsa is persimmon gold
A promise the winter can't hold
Just one more perfect Saturday, I'm told
[Verse 2]
My brother's polishing the chrome on his DeSoto coupe
Mama calls out from the kitchen, "Come on in for soup"
I'm mending a split-rail post with a length of baling twine
Never seen a sunset bleed a line this clean and fine
Just another seam I'm stitching in this world of mine
[Bridge]
Tomorrow's just a word for when the sun comes 'round again
A new coat of varnish on a life that has no splinters in
[Chorus]
The sky over Tulsa is persimmon gold
A promise the winter can't hold
Just one more perfect Saturday, I'm sold
[Outro]
Persimmon gold...
Before the story got told...
About Hank Wyatt
Hank Wyatt learned to play guitar in a quiet bedroom overlooking a persimmon orchard, on the Oklahoma farm his Japanese-American grandparents started after the war. He spent his childhood split between two houses, becoming a quiet observer and a student of mending things—first fences, then guitars, then people. His honky-tonk songs, written from the back rooms of Tulsa dive bars where he still…
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