I was very honored to have the opportunity to record this beautiful Bob Grez song.
folk
blues
country
canadian
french
bluegrass
Lyrics
AFTER SHE IS GONE
by Bob Grez
God loves Mary ‘cause she’s paid her dues.
Wearin’ galoshes she’s no front page news.
She picks up junk left out on the street.
Sells it on the corner for a quarter a piece.
She goes buys candy for kids on the block.
And hands it out free when they’re throwin’ rocks.
Don’t worry about Mary she still cracks a smile.
She’s takin’ much worse and it’s been a while.
Chorus
Life will go on, long after she’s gone.
Life will go on, long after she is gone.
She’s dressed in rags, she’s never bought clothes.
Ol’ Mary has sock holes showing her toes.
She ain’t had a man in thirty five years.
But she’s long stopped crying over broken dreams.
Scrounging for food scraps when she’s feelin’ pain.
They escort her out of McDonald’s again.
She doesn’t slow down, she’s afraid of the dark.
So she keeps movin just pushin’ her cart.
She sleeps in the hallways when it’s snowin outside.
If they don’t kick her out, she’ll be just fine.
But in the hot summers, she just loves to be free.
She sleeps in the yards past Liberty Street.
Now Mary sure knows it ain’t far to go,
if she don’t get over her twenty year cold.
They’ll put her in the ground in her own grave,
where even a rich man get’s treated the same.
This is a beautiful Bob Grez song and I was honored to have the opportunity to record it. Definitely a labour of love.