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Here's a song for three women I'm grateful I met early on in my reachwithme days. I'm thankful for my wife, my kids, for my voice and hands still working. But when I make my list of what to write a song about, these three always seem to be on it: Sadie in Centralia (WA), Beulah in Pocatello and Alta in Havre (MT).They make me better and braver.

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Number Forty Eight, November 29th, 2012

Alta Sing

Alta sing
Don't change a thing - I'll follow you
Sing for love
Like a lover does and I will too

Sadie laugh
Your autograph on me remains
So beautifully
You're teaching me how we all change

Beulah's eyes
Reflect the skies of Caroline
She'll take you home
To morning glories in her mind

I have these
Reminding me what I'll become
So let it be
This family tree I'm hanging from

But you and me
We don't even know ourselves
We hide
The best in us to anyone else

We can't admit
How alone we feel
It's not us
It's just what we steal

Alta sing
Don't change a thing - I'll sing with you
Sadie laugh
Bring me back, get me through

There's carolina skies
In the blue of Beulah Storie's eyes

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from 52 Songs in 52 Weeks: 2012, released July 15, 2013

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James Hersch Minneapolis, Minnesota

I live on this piece of prairie. I'm passionate and dedicated to writing songs in hopes of singing them for people. I don't think I could continue without both ends of that process. Create then hope. It's here I write songs, and here I wait to sing them for others. ... more

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