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A Song for My Grandmother's 80th Birthday
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Kontra @ 97.3, WRIR Richmond, VA
 Kontra  Contact Contributor
July 22, 2008, 4:43 p.m.
Eight long hours in the car
When we were young it seemed so far
Grandpa sitting by that CB radio
Listening for voices down the road

In this old Virginia home
I don't know why I ever roamed
And all the tears you shed may fall, but never stain
They wash clean in that warm Virginia rain

He said, "See you next year, if I'm around"
I watched my family put him in the ground
And now you've left this town but I'm standing by the James
Out here in this warm Virginia rain

I climbed that tree up in the back yard
Saw my mother hold her mother while she cried
My parents fell in love just down the road
We all were raised on southern pride

I know you walked out near these fields
All those sweet potato meals
And it's your blood that now is running through my veins
And it feels like that warm Virginia rain

In this old Virginia home
I don't know why I ever roamed
And all the tears you shed may fall, but never stain
They wash clean in that warm Virginia rain

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