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Flower From the Iron Range

from Lost and Found by Scott Nielsen

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The 'Flower' was a real person and she played a Martin 12string. She was also a fellow Minnesotan and died much too young,

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Flower from the Iron Range
© 2004 M. Scott Nielsen

V1
G C
I was young and restless when I left my northern home
D7 G
I went east to the canyons of the city made of stone
C
Years went by and I made my way down a one way track
D7 G
Until a spirit sang to me and the memories all came back
C
She was strumming on a twelve string in a coffee shop
D7 G
Singing songs from somewhere with names that I’d forgot
C
Like Sliver Bay and Grand Marais on the great north shore
D7 G
She turned me round and pulled me back and I was home once more

CHORUS
C G
She’s a flower from the iron range a ghost sent from the past
D7 G
Her eyes as black as midnight deep as a looking glass
C G
Strumming on that old guitar softly she would sing
D7 G
Floating songs out on the air, like a flicker on the wing.

V2
I closed my eyes and smelled the scent of woods of birch and pine
I saw summer days in a leaky boat with a tangled fishing line
And crystal quiet winter nights so cold your breath would freeze
Driving home without the lights by the moonlight through the trees

She sang me back to places in the caverns of my mind
Where a day can last forever and no ones keeping time
Star filled nights and northern lights and the lonesome mournful cry
Of a loon across a misty lake and tears filled up my eyes

Chorus
Reprise: Floating songs out on the air like a flicker on the wing

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from Lost and Found, released July 6, 2018

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Scott Nielsen Bordentown, New Jersey

"I'm a 50's rocker and never was told how to grow up and when to grow old . . ." to quote one of my tunes and it sums me up pretty well. I have been writing songs since the early 60's. In the 70's I wrote children's songs for Captain Kangaroo. I have been a writer and publisher ASCAP member since 1973.

I write across several genres: country, rock and adult alternative. ... more

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