by Jennifer Landretti | Sep 1, 2023 | Songbook
April, give me your love.April, some of your love.That thing you told meWhen you were gone–A truck taking chancesNearly hit you head on.We joked it away at the time,But something grew in my mindsaying & saying &...
by Jennifer Landretti | Aug 1, 2023 | Songbook
Hard lessons come down on the prairie When the day dies away in the heatAnd clouds burn like red lanternsWhere the road disappears in the wheat.I never was one much for talkingI taught you that was my wayYou used to listen for hoursWhen I had nothing to say.You loved...
by Jennifer Landretti | Jul 1, 2023 | Songbook
Last night I came home beat up from the daydropped into bed where I meant to praybut I was so weary with the news of it allI just dreamed the dream of my Mexican wall An old wooden cross on my Mexican wallhas four twisted nails, no Jesus at alljust footprints nearby...
by Jennifer Landretti | Jul 1, 2023 | Songbook
Gretchen is falling someplace faraway Like a whiffle ball dropped from a cargo plane bay.She falls through the clouds in the glow of the eveOver empty horizons & wide lonesome seas.Gretchen, oh, Gretchen, what do you see?If I ask you politely, would you tell...
by Jennifer Landretti | Dec 1, 2022 | Songbook
There’s whitecaps on the puddlesthe leaves have left the treesthe tavern sits on gravelcatching snowflakes on the breeze.The men trudge up hunkered downin coats and heavy shoesto warm their hearts with alcoholand play the two-ball blues.It’s two bits for a train...
