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
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