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Sam Wainwright

from Mary's At The Library! by Alex Whelan

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"Go Sam Go" I remember I'd call
At the precise moment I knew you might fall
Right Through the Ice
And Pay the Price
But that just wouldn't be like Sam Wainwright
 
     “Hee-haw!”-ing the whole way across
     The ice grew cracks but still
     You never lost a single bet when I bet
     That you’d fall and get all wet.
     I still prayed at night
For S.W.
 You ran and slid and walked on water, “Don’t worry, it’s frozen!” you said with a laugh.
With a hand to my ear in the mirror tonight, I wish that I could be as free
As S.W.
 
He always got the pretty girls, even though I was the prettier boy.
I never understood how he ran so quickly.
I’d yell “Look out!” he’d say “George, I know.”
He’d never come home for dinner, he’d just go, Sam, go.
 
You walk on water, “Don’t worry, it’s frozen!” you said with a laugh.
With a hand to my ear in the mirror tonight, I wish that I could be as free
As S.W.
 
Oh Sam, your balance was perfect. Oh Sam, so was your poise.
Oh Sam, we’ll have a great future: just us two ramblin’ boys.
We’ll get so rich and move to New York, you’ll be an actor on Broadway and more.
I’ll do everything, I’ll make every girl. There won’t be no problems in our own, small world.
 
Now we’re 11 but we’re thinking like teens. I’m so scared for everything we’ll have seen.
Yeah we’re getting older, and soon we’ll weigh more than ice.
But you can’t stand forever on what only happens
In the wintertime.

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from Mary's At The Library!, released December 22, 2012

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Alex Whelan Tucson, Arizona

Mary's At the Library / Hip Don't Dance / Miser Amicus / Arthur Barnes is Dead / The Sadie Hawks / The Lamps / Noir Party / Trochee Trochee

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