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The Flowers of May

from The Kite and the Shore by Sammie Francis

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Comes in a high-quality gatefold CD wallet with complete lyrics and beautiful artwork (by Emily Schonberg) for each track.

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Kite and the Shore via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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lyrics

I was a little girl
Dancing in mother’s pearls
In the bright flowers
Oh, the flowers of May

He was a little boy
Full of life, full of joy
We were naïve and coy
In the flowers of May

We were just little ones
When we found his grandfather’s gun
And we fired it into the sun

When they found us
Under the creek bridge
Crying, too scared to speak
‘Cause we’d shot out the sun
Couldn’t blame anyone
Look at what we’d done

The sky came tumbling down
With the shot blast, what a sound
We never turned around
Once we ran away

They closed the cemetery gates
Once I came back ten years from that day
The flowers were red, red as they were in May
Oh, the flowers of May

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from The Kite and the Shore, released August 31, 2013
Words and music by Emily Schonberg / Piano and additional vocals by Sammie Francis / Bass by Max Taylor

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Sammie Francis Portland, Maine

Sammie Francis grew up in Maine and has been writing and playing music locally for over 10 years. She is primarily a high school English teacher, but otherwise enjoys writing music and listening to Laura Marling. Her latest album, 'The Kite and the Shore', was released in September of 2013. ... more

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