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The Abandoned Carousel

from American Gothic by Stuart Pearson

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Written and sung by Hunter Lowry. When bad things happen in a town, what do parents say to the kids? And what do kids say to each other?

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THE ABANDONED CAROUSEL
Hunter Lowry

They say they never found him
On the day he wandered off
His mother gray and sobbing in the rain
The neighbors are suspicious
And the skeptics always scoff
But we know that it’s happening again

The merry-go-round horses
Snort in paralyzed defeat
Their hooves forever pinned to metal ground
But we know that you better beat
A hasty retreat
If you ever see those horses come unbound

It’s a midnight ride
At the abandoned carousel
You know you’ve heard the stories
That the older people tell
That midnight ride
That all the nursery rhymes fortell
It takes you around
And around and around

The children always whisper
About the ones that just get lost
We know that they aren’t just a runaway
But somehow even knowing
Of the price that ride could cost
Makes it doubly hard to turn away

It’s a midnight ride
At the abandoned carousel
You know you’ve heard the stories
That the older people tell
That midnight ride
That all the nursery rhymes fortell
It takes you around
And around and around

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from American Gothic, released November 10, 2023
Everything played and/or messed with by Stuart Pearson. Sung and written by Hunter Lowry

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Stuart Pearson Los Angeles, California

“Dark Americana: Stories and Songs”: sepia-toned, dog-eared vistas of America’s struggles with sin and redemption that jumps cobwebbed eras from the 1860’s to the 1960’s. hollywoodtrax.bandcamp.com/album/dark-americana-stories-and-songs

"Dark Americana 2: Mohave" reflects the desert: dark folk, rustic, dangerous, in ruins and foreboding; breathing hallucinatory American mythology.
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