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the Butcher Tree

from Welcome To Gippsland by Sean McMahon

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THE BUTCHER TREE (sung by a friend of Jims, played by Matt Walker)

…about a place we all used to go, and the father he’d never know
Matt Walker

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Up until the time I was seventeen
We used to drink down by the butcher tree
We’d get so full we could hardly see
Our way back home
Until my brother found out where I’d been
Underneath the shade of the butcher tree
I never told the others what he told me
And I never did go back
Daddy went to prison in seventy three
I never saw him and he never saw me
And up until then I never knew
Exactly what a man might do
I’m looking at stain on my sleeve
On a shirt that was handed down to me
Stained by the blood of the butcher tree
Stained in the fibre of my dreams
And it’s spilling out and over

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from Welcome To Gippsland, released September 1, 2008

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Sean McMahon Melbourne, Australia

With a string of independent releases to his name and over a decade of non stop writing, recording and performing, Sean McMahon has honed an undeniably genuine voice as a singer/songwriter, His songs are laden with lyrical beauty, weaving vivid story telling, confessional narratives and abstract musings through timeless sounds inspired by classic vintage folk, rock and cosmic country, ... more

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