Scatter My Ashes
Copyrighted by: Verne Garrison
July 27, 2010 Valley Park Mo
Banjo tuned E, Capo 3, Key of G


Scatter My Ashes


Scatter my ashes from Garrison Bridge
To swimming holes and catfish holes, amid
The tree and blackberry-lined banks
The rolling lands, I roamed as a kid

These remains of the Lake Fork old-timer
Once barefoot on black, cool new plowed ground
Are but a reminder of my happy youth
Skipping to the beat of Bob White's sound

High summer skies, white puffed clouds
Green glass insulators on telephone poles
Yellow wild parsnip, multi colored holly hocks
That lined the clay banked ditches of our gravel roads

Yeah, the energy of youth, now all spent
And the memories that are really mostly good
So scatter the ashes to the waters below
And I'll return to Lake Fork, as I should

And I'll return to old Lake Fork, as I should