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Great Hall

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When I worked on the farm,
I used to start up a tractor, head out, and mow the wide fields.
I used to shovel, sweep, and dig.

On the farm was a great hall.
A hundred fifty years old, it had a little carpeted stage.
Every week I’d clean it up.

I would take a giant broom
And sweep all the dust out of that old wooden room.
It would take me half the day.

One day I looked up
And saw a butterfly flying across the hall.
It was flying right towards me.

In the middle of its flight,
It stopped flapping its wings and fell to the ground suddenly,
Dying right at my feet.

You know, I should have learned
Something from the butterfly that died in an ordinary flight.
You know, I should have learned

That death is quick,
And life is slow, slow, slow.
Life is slow, slow slow.

I should have learned that life is slow.

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from Lawrence Lanahan, released May 20, 2004

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Lawrence Lanahan Baltimore, Maryland

Lawrence Lanahan is a songwriter in Baltimore, MD.

He also plays with Disappearing Ink.

A freelance journalist, Lanahan is the author of The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore's Racial Divide (2019, The New Press). ... more

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