{"sf1_id":1766517,"sf2_id":"q1xYQ2e0","title":"Rust River Valley Rail Crossing Three, Pop. 527","author":"Rob MacWolf","words":234,"posted_at":"2021-09-23T18:39:00.000Z","tags":["Folk Song","Poetry","lyric"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1766517-rust-river-valley-rail-crossing-three-pop-527","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/q1xYQ2e0","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/e2/fd/e2fd9b5b-204d-4ee7-a586-3a165c48fe20","description":"#45 of poetry\n\nI have never met a sad folk song that I didn't want to rewrite to be sadder.","content":"From the valley they say you are going\n\nI can see why you would. And I know\n\nAs the slow grinding years\n\nGrind the hills into tears\n\nEach year grinds a little more slow.\n\n  \n\nFrom this valley they say you are going.\n\nFrom this hopeless collection of rust.\n\nThis town takes its tolls,\n\nThis place breaks our souls,\n\nIn return for a handful of dust.\n\n  \n\nOh they say you are taking the sunshine\n\nIf that's true, take as much as you may.\n\nTake the wind. Take the rain.\n\nTake the 2 AM train.\n\nDon't look back till you're fully away.\n\n  \n\nLet me sit by your side, if you love me\n\nOr if you do not. I won't care.\n\nLet the stories I'll dream\n\nOf what love might have been\n\nSustain me when you are not there.\n\n  \n\nSo let me believe that you loved me\n\nAs we hasten to bid last adieu.\n\nIf you do not deny,\n\nWhy then I will get by\n\nWhen it will make no difference to you.\n\n  \n\nFrom this valley I'm glad you are going.\n\nWould that I knew how to go too.\n\nJust remember my face\n\nOff in some better place\n\nWhen you have nothing better to do.\n\nThe one decent thing in this valley\n\nWas the way that it let me love you.\n\nSo if aught you remember, let it be\n\nThe one who has loved you so true.\n\n  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"poetry","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1757684-blank-verse-essay-on-the-treachery-of-hope.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1779203-account-of-presumed-ecstatic-experience-during-initiation-rite-in-unidentified-mystery-religion.json"}}