Christmas Cry

by Dawn Ellerbeck

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Looking back I was keeping track
Wanting you to fill up what I lack
Nothing left I close my eyes
Stop the dance, drop the veil, it's all a thin disguise

Now you're gone and I wonder why
Hang my head and have a Christmas cry
When you ask I'll say I'm doing fine
But I'm playing home movies in my mind

Looking ahead I was filled with dread
Feeling lost, would my soul be fed
Thoughts that make my poor heart ache
Pictures we won't take and love that we won't make

Oh you're gone and I wonder why
Hang my head and have a Christmas cry
When you ask I'll say I'm doing fine
But I'm making home movies in my mind

Living now I'm learning how
Figured out what I will and won't allow
No one else can wear these shoes
My walking blues are mine alone to lose

Now you're gone and I wonder why
Hang my head and have a Christmas cry
When you ask I'll say I'm doing fine
But I'm playing home movies in my mind

Now you're gone and I wonder why
Hang my head and have a Christmas cry

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released December 9, 2021
Recorded and produced by Travis Hanna at Electric Platypus Recording Studio, Round Rock, TX

Dawn Ellerbeck: guitar, vocals
Dan Newitt: mandolin
Travis Hanna: organ

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Dawn Ellerbeck Alameda, California

Dawn Ellerbeck is a singer-songwriter with deep roots in small-town Iowa. Raised by a coal-mining dad and a choir-directing mom, she grew up listening to her parents' sweet harmonies at church and the occasional wedding. Her songs stir up memories of home and love gone wrong with vocals reminiscent of her bluegrass folk heroines, Hazel Dickens, Emmylou Harris, and Gillian Welch. ... more

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