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Ballad of The Ashes and Sea (My Grandfather)

from Murder Ballads for Lovers by Ben Senterfit

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This is the second track off my upcoming ep.

This song is a biographical story of Swedish Grandfather who's ashes we buried at sea in 2003.

My Grandfather was a man I met at various times in my life and yet never knew. To put it simply, he complicated our families lives in many ways. Just a hours after dropping his ashes at sea, I lost my wedding ring swimming in the same water.

This song is dedicated to my entire Swedish family, my Grandmother, Mother, and Aunt Ann in particular.

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My Grandfather
Sailed across on the ocean
All over this world
He’s drifting on the sea
He took my wedding ring
When I bent down to touch him
Still I remember that man
In my family

Poor grandmother
Never had a handle
She’d roam from town to town
To keep away from the man up north
But he’s track her down and write her
Preach about the men she lay beside her
I remember that man
In my family

chorus
Old man we’re the people that you can’t deceive
Don’t tell me you’re a man in the high degree
My mind is twisted and confused
But you can’t put it together now
‘cause you got nothing left to do

His youngest daughter
He claimed he didn’t own her
He made it crystal clear from the Rockies to the Baltic coast
But now the mans no longer living
She’ll spend her whole life trying to forgive him
She found a picture on his wall
That said you’re family
She found her picture on his wall
That said you’re family

Chorus

My mother
She sailed across the ocean
All her life
She’s flown across the sea
When he took my wedding ring
We bent down and touched him
And dropped his body down
In the dark blue sea

Chorus

credits

from Murder Ballads for Lovers, released June 24, 2011
Christel Rice - Irish Flute
Kailin Yong - Violin
Jacob Sanders - Strings & String Arrangement
Kyle Jones - mastering
Ben Senterfit - Everything else

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Ben Senterfit Red Hook, New York

Musician, Educator, Songwriter, Dad, Mediocre carpenter.

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