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Singing Bones, 2003
Written by Rennie Sparks and Brett Sparks
This is a story song of the Old West, complete with echoing male vocals at the end of the verses, evoking the kind Marty Robbins sang, if a twisted alternate Robbins had been brought up by Nick Cave and had a grim baritone rather than a jolly one. In it, the narrator is making his way to a gold man with a cart and his dog, but the horse and cart tip over, his dog runs, and he wanders on foot, presumably dying of thirst days later. "In handfuls of dust from between the dying weeds / I laid down in the dirt as the sun lost her glow." It could have been a chapter in Lonesome Dove.
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