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Dear Miss Alexandra

by This Old Ghost Town

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Alexandra 04:36
Dear miss Alexandra, lady of the lake I wish you'd lay your head to rest and your heart for goodness sake Many years have passed and your bones have long since gone But your treasure remains, you can hear her cry at dawn My journey began, back in 1883 I traveled to through the lands, to the valley of the three There was a lady, as pretty as can be Her name was Alexandra, and the men bowed at her feet Stories of a treasure, that lay up in the hills Many men would search for her, and try to test their skills I was among the chosen to retrieve what she did want For it was not a simple task forever it did haunt Well my days are numbered now I know These bones are getting old For I search the mountains far above To try and win her love; I'll win her love Well you may not believe, what these eyes have seen We pulled back the rubble to see what lies between As ten men we stand, shovels in hand As we look down beneath, on golden ground we stand We loaded up the riches and sent it down the tracks Little did we know, we'd never get her back As the train came rushing the tracks they couldn't hold It tumbled down the valley to the deep lake below Well my days are numbered now I know These bones are getting old For I search the mountains far above To try and win her love; I'll win her love Well my days are numbered now I know This blood is running cold For I search the mountains far above To try and win her love Well my days are numbered now I know These bones are getting old For I search the mountains far above To try and win her love; I'll win her love
2.
Well I'm awake and it's morning time And the sun is sweeping the mountain side Oh what a sight! The coffee's on and I'm all alone With a dog just itching to go I know, we'll be walking soon Hey pup, stop your whining I know! Oh what a day to wander in the shine And what a day to lay down a line That’s all I have been waiting for Well we walked for miles it seems Til I see a ripple in the stream I know what lies beneath A perfect drift right over the nose A perfect drift right over the nose
3.
You know I'm not the one to be afraid of the sun And I will never stray away from the dark of the days And we will sit on the coast and watch the sea As it twists and turns as the black skies roll We need to find our way back home Where we can weather the storm Like two birds separate between miles of sky They try to find as they fly follow magnetic lines But the winds they blow so hard pushes them far apart And the branches of the trees covers them from the breeze But we need to find our way back home Where we can weather the storm
4.
I heard a story when I was just a boy, about a place that could destroy Your thoughts your mind and your soul My father told me it's haunted you see, from when the cowboys were fighting the Cree. And oh, so many lives were lost that day A battle raged a hundred years ago, but it's not fair when the gun meets the bow They fought but they still lost their land The ghosts of the story still linger in my mind this is a place that I have to find But oh, my father tells me no And so he tells me... Things exist down there you will see Things I can tell you that you won't believe And if you go there you'll never come back When you enter, the Dead Man's Flats When I was young my mom would always say, your sense of wonder might kill you someday But no, you know I've never learned The rusted old train tracks that snake through the heart of the fields might be a place to start As I descend into the flats I make my way around a weathered old shack, as something softly taps me on the back My heart has stopped and I can't breathe Eye to eye I am locked in a stare, with wrinkles deep and bright white hair The ghost of the Native chief He parts his lips and he starts to say My son I wish you didn't come this way Vengeance I seek and I will have it I swear Your life is my so say your last prayer I hear my father... Things exist down there you now see Things I have told you that you now believe You have gone and you'll never come back Now you've entered, the Dead Man's Flats
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Well my soles are wearing thin there's miles behind me And this cracked old weathered grin just wait and see, wait and see Well the sun is setting now, and I'm heading west And the colours in the sky they're something else, they're something else Ohh, another dusty road Ohh, there's so far left to go Well my heels are dragging now they're leaving trails And the knots tied in my boots, they're coming loose, coming loose Been chasing sunsets all my life, from time to time They get away from me and I, I fear the night, I fear the night Ohh, another dusty road Ohh, there's so far left to go Well the night is clearing out and the winds are calming down and still I walk Ohh, another dusty road Ohh, there's not far left to go

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All of these songs are demos recorded by Billy in his bedroom.

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released December 22, 2014

All songs written and preformed by B. Harrison and D. Haugan

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This Old Ghost Town Kelowna, British Columbia

March 22, 1881. Three weary travelers make camp. They had stumbled on a treasure and as they searched through it they found some line made of steel, a few old boxes, small circular discs, and a few pieces wood. "Old Man" Billy Harrison, Daryl "Two Chins" Haugan and Dan Jones began crafting instruments. It was on this night that they became This Old Ghost Town, and their legend lives on to this day ... more

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