Nancy Kerr 2010
Kerr says that as she transitioned from playing traditional music to writing her own material, she sought a balance between more trad-sounding songs and more poppy songs, which she feels this is.
Nancy Kerr & James Fagan: https://kerrfagan.bandcamp.com/track/flower-pickers-song
https://kerrfagan.bandcamp.com/track/flower-pickers-song
A bunch of flowers and a sore half hour Before these seedling sunflowers see me out of here Another day by the grey highway The fairest flowers fade my dear A clutch of red petals that hangs it head The way you did the day we shared our parting tears An hour or two quickened by dreams of you The fairest flowers fade my dear Chorus: Silver sand trickling through my hand And other people trade those feeble alibis Another sky where the free birds fly The fairest flowers fade my dear A splash of blue cracking the sky in two A thunder train that tracks my spirits out of here A cloud of rain seeding my dreams in vain The fairest flowers fade my dear A nest of leaves, rustling memories The offerings we bought and lived and laid in here A hutch of souls, huddled like Russian dolls The fairest flowers fade my dear