The Ballad Of Cold Tom

from A Day Without The Rose by Michael Mazochi

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lyrics

Snow is falling on rooftops
On the mountainside
This my friend is where my tale begins
On a dark December morning
The Winter of ‘45
This is where I got the name Cold Tom
I was out collecting firewood
For my wife and my children
When I heard a noise just break on through the wire
A girl she was a screamin’
In the mountain stream below me
I burst into a run and I began to pray
--
I said please lord don’t let me down
I said please lord don’t let me down
Don’t let me down don’t let me down
At least not today
--
When I reached the freezing waters
My eyes they fell in sorrow
She screamed “My lovers quarrel has put me here”
And in a fate worse than Hellfire
The man he was upon me
He struck me right before I could turn to see
And on the banks where I was laying
My legs were torn and broken
The man he turned around and he drove away
And as I lay there watching
I saw her disappear
Into the darkened waters right beside me
--
I said please lord don’t let me down
I said please lord don’t let me down
Don’t let me down don’t let me down
At least not today
--
The town was most suspicious
Of a man who lay there watching
My injuries seemed proof enough for blame
The trial was in the morning
The whole damned down was there
I sat on the stand and I watched my lover cry
And as I plead truth most sincerely
The man was in the crowd
And with a guilty verdict he let him out a smile
You see he left no tracks behind him
As the devil never does
It was there that I got the name Cold Tom
It was there that I got the name Cold Tom
Yeah, it was there that I got the name Cold Tom

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from A Day Without The Rose, released September 1, 2005

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