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The Missing Years?

from Gethsemani (Unabridged) by Joel David Weir

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I got to visit London for the first time in my life last summer. As an American it was kinda wild just how old everything is, and how its like no big deal. Like yeah - this pub - been here for for five hundred years - this spot on the road here is where the gallows were back when that happened - yeah - its real wild - so - while we were in London we had to go to all the old places - one of those was the tower of london - the tower of london - that’s a spot, right by where all the royals lived at different times - well - where they kept prisoners - thing is - they wanted to preserve the graffiti really - but back then graffiti was like carving in the wall - so - you had really commit to what you were gonna say I guess - but there’s these carvings - in the stone - from, like, way back - there were famous people - people you never heard of - but - preserved those - those - messages under glass so it wouldn’t fade over time – and I’m looking at all these - you got you know religious prisoners, and political prisoners - people you know - maybe saying that the gallows were bad - but - I’m looking at all this graffiti - and I see this one and its some latin - latin carved real big - carved in 1568 and translated it said ‘the word of the Lord remains over all’ - under that inscription was a name - and that name - i kid you not - not making this up - John Prine - so - i came to a few conclusions - first - well - how to explain this - either John Prine is a time traveler - or an immortal - of - John pulled one of the most amazing pranks in history - all of those explanations give me great comfort - well - next to john there was this other guy - can’t remember name - he carved something like ‘i hope next year is better than this’ - huh - so the other conclusion I came to was that there was a song in this somewhere - so I got thinking and well I decided to write a song from the perspective of John Prine’s cellmate - so - hope you’ll bless this John - wherever you are - but I have a good idea where you are - and its a whole lot better than the tower of london

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from Gethsemani (Unabridged), released January 1, 2023
Joel David Weir - Words and Narration.
Recorded at St. Squirrel Studio, Crawfordsville, IN

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