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Sadie's Song

from West by McKain Lakey

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Written as a response to the traditional murder ballad, Little Sadie.

A short documentary film about the the origins of this song is currently in production.

lyrics

They'll know your story for a hundred years or more.
They'll hear the ringing of your goddamn .44.
They'll know about your prison time, and running from the law.
But they won't remember your hateful face; they won't know all that I saw-

the night you shot me down, my love, my dear Lee Brown.
The night you shot me down, Lee Brown.

I'm not as small as they all say, but you know I didn't run,
for size and speed don't factor when you're staring down a gun.
You forced your body onto mine, while whispering my fate.
Then through my blood and tears, you pulled a trigger laced with hate-

the night you shot me down, my love, my dear Lee Brown.
The night you shot me down, Lee Brown.

It's true I loved another and her love for me was plain.
I held two souls up to my heart and never felt ashamed.
So don't you try to blame me, don't tell me I was wrong.
You never should've killed me, or put me in your song-

the night you shot me down, my love, my dear Lee Brown.
The night you shot me down, Lee Brown.

Any love for you in this whole world, it's dying here with me.
In forty-one years, they'll turn you loose, but you never will me free.
For I'm not just a token, not just a line you sung.
I'm every woman ever killed, I am every death bell rung-

the night you shot me down, my love, my dear Lee Brown.
The night you shot me down, Lee Brown.

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from West, released May 18, 2018
McKain Lakey- Voice and Fiddle

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