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Indigo Girls

The Indigo Girls are an American folk rock music duo consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. They met in elementary school and began performing together as high school students in Decatur, Georgia, part of the Atlanta metropolitan area. They started performing with the name Indigo Girls as students at Emory University, performing weekly at The Dugout, a bar in the Emory Village. more »


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2011
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Yeah when I go over yonder, I will see my mother
My sister and my father, but my brother is going to hell 
Yeah they hung him from the gallows
As the sun turned red from yellow
And the crowd they heard him halting

And they sighed with much relief 
The preacher asked him for any last words
My brother spit on to his clean shirt
And he smiled without redemption
And said this is one soul God don't need 

Oh yes I loved him but I won't miss him
As he's burning and he's twisting
For his heartless dedication
To the devil and it's creed 
Oh as a child we called him rotten

Till he was lonely and forgotten
And he revenged our constant jeering
Oh with his every word and deed 
Oh yeah and for my contribution
Oh and the souls lack of retribution

I would ask the Lord's forgiveness on my very bended knee
Oh it's the tale of Johnny Rotten
Yeah who was lonely and forgotten
And it's the tale of my only brother
And it's the tale of one bad seed

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Written by: Emily Ann Saliers

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