Josh Ritter Harrisburg Lyrics

Harrisburg Lyrics

Romero got married on the fifth of July

In our Lady of Immaculate Dawn

Could have got married in the revival man's tent

But there ain't no reviving what's gone

Slipped like a shadow from the family he made

In a little white house by the woods

Dropped the kids at the mission, with a rose for the virgin

She knew he was gone for good



It's a long way to Heaven, it's closer to Harrisburg

And that's still a long way from the place where we are

And if evil exists its a pair of train tracks

And the devil is a railroad car



Could have stayed somewhere but the train tracks kept going

And it seems like they always left soon

and the wolves that he ran with they moaned low and painful

sang sad misereres to the moon



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Rose at the altar withered and wilted

Romero sank into a dream

He didn't make Heaven, he didn't make Harrisburg

He died in a hole in between

Some say that man is the root of all evil

Others say God's a drunkard for pain

Me I believe that the Garden of Eden

Was burned to make way for a train