Name: Sarah
Duration: P00H04M31S
Description: A story about coming of age in a dirt poor coal town, Sarah encapsulates the struggle between the cycle of poverty, rumors, and drugs and the beauty of the Appalachian countryside. If you grew up in the Appalachian rust belt, this song is dedicated to you.

Sarah

by Bonnie and the Mere Mortals

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A story about coming of age in a dirt poor coal town, Sarah encapsulates the struggle between the cycle of poverty, rumors, and drugs and the beauty of the Appalachian countryside. If you grew up in the Appalachian rust belt, this song is dedicated to you.

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Sarah grew up in a modular tough
By a creek in a one stop sign town
Started to smoke before she got her last tooth
Took the car for joy rides around
The boys all knew since her daddy was gone
Filled his fist with a bottle instead
That Sarah grew up in the family way
And she mostly considered him dead
And she mostly considers him dead

Things get around in a 1 church town
But that's the price of being pure instead
Just plant the seed of a better-than creed
And no one will know that its dead
Sarah got on and she got around
Or at least that's what they said
So before those boys could reach a pedal of lead
They all said she made them men.
And she wished that she was dead.

Oh Sarah
You're always the smoking gun
Oh Sarah
Finished before you'd begun
Oh Sarah
But no one ever asked you
(I'm sorry that I never knew)

Sarah got around to a GED
Round the time her own reached 9
Then her old daddy started coming around
And she saw the look in his eye
They packed the Dakota and a Dillinger
crossed the Marshall county line
Though they dumped her daddy back in Alleghany
It doesn't matter how far you drive
you can't leave your past behind

Oh Sarah
You're always the smoking gun
Oh Sarah
Finished before you'd begun
Oh Sarah
But no one ever asked you
(I'm sorry that I never knew)

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released November 19, 2021

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Bonnie and the Mere Mortals Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Southern Gothic music blending Appalachian folk with goth from the Paris of Appalachia. A juxtaposition of analog and digital showing that we have more in common than you might think.

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