Caleb Meyer's Ghost

from The Mend by Jason Tyler Burton

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A back story for Gillian Welch's Caleb Meyer. Don't feel bad for the guy. Check out a live video here:
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Well my daddy came from Bowling Green
Of five kids he was the third
And he got lost in the middle there
Don't guess he ever quite returned
He met my momma when she quit high school
She was sweet but not wise
I guess she never could see the fire
Beneath the coal dark of his eyes

Lord I swear that I Didn't want to be like this
Didn't want to be like him at all

They had two kids, just me and my sister
And I got the better of that deal
She took her own life when she was fifteen
And I ran off into the hills
Now I live up here in the pine trees
Just me and my whiskey still
Trying to drink away her memory
and that part of me that I can't kill

Lord I swear that I didn't want to be like him
Didn't want to be like him at all
I sit and stare up in those fruit trees
And wonder how far the apple falls

Down the road lived a young lady
Whose husband often left her alone
The day my mom died, i grabbed a bottle
and left my mind as i left home

Lord I stand here, now before you
Her story is not mine to tell
I am not asking you for salvation
I know that I belong in hell

But Lord I swear that I didn't want to be like him
Didn't want to be like this at all
Lord my name is Caleb Meyer
I know how far the apple falls

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from The Mend, released February 29, 2012
Deborah Payne - fiddle
Toni Melton - backing vocals (www.tonimelton.com)

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Jason Tyler Burton Wyoming

Jason Tyler Burton is a recluse from Kentucky who now makes his home in the least populated county in the least populated state. There in Wyoming, at the foot of the Wind River Mountains, he writes songs that wrestle with the struggles of rural peoples. His stories often tell a novel's worth of story in the format of a song, for which he draws comparisons to Jason Isbell and John Prine. ... more

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