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Traveling Wildfire

from Traveling Wildfire by Dom Flemons

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lyrics

There’s a traveling wildfire
Sprawling like an endless gravel road
You can see it tearing up the mountainside
It goes where it wants to go

And my eyes cry looking at the flames
Orange to yellow burning to white
There’s a traveling wildfire
Blazing into the valley tonight

There’s a dark moon in the valley
Covered in clouds made of clay
And the wind’s rolling scolding voice
Will make the Mississippi change its way

And I can hear a simple moaning
A lonesome tune to cry
For there's a dark moon in the valley
Rising high up
Rising high

Instrumental

The dark moon is beaming
Like a flicker of candlelight
And when you think the night is over
Folks remind you that times are getting tight

But there are too many voices
To get us out of the maze
And the dark moon is beaming
As a final melody is being played

And I spend my time
Looking for a place
soft and warm
Oh my love, my love
How did we end up
in the eye of the storm?

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from Traveling Wildfire, released March 24, 2023
Dom Flemons, vocal, Hofner electric guitar, marching bass drum; Marc Orrell, World Famous Bilhorn Brothers “Style O” Folding pump organ; Matt Pynn, Mullen pedal steel

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Dom Flemons Chicago, Illinois

The American Songster, Multi-Instrumentalist, Singer-Songwriter, Music Historian, Record Collector

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