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Queen of the Red Lights

from Thrift Store Melodies by Darren Senn

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Back in the times when the mines were mined
and the trains were chugging' through
Old Virginny was a bustlin' city
livin' high on the Comstock boom
There lived a woman named Julia
She did a dirty job to do
She died young, the hardest workin' girl
The wild west ever knew

Queen of the red lights
she loved 'em all for the right price
They'd come and go and come back to her again
In the high times on the Comstock Lode
She kept the miners minin' and the money flowed
But it never was the same after Julia got done in

she volunteered her days with the men
at the firehouse on C street
while the miners broke their backs below
in the stench and the sweltering heat
after sundown's when she made her name
lovin' those miners for pay
she'd send them off back to their hell
but they'd be whistlin' all the way

Queen of the red lights
she loved 'em all for the right price
They'd come and go and come back to her again
In the high times on the Comstock Lode
She kept the miners minin' and the money flowed
But it never was the same after Julia got done in

they found her in her shack that day
cold and stiff there on her bed
disfigured face, the bloody sheets
were sticking to her head
no silver, no gold ever came for free
she was only 35
a victim of the lust and greed
that was keeping her alive

Queen of the red lights
she loved 'em all for the right price
They'd come and go and come back to her again
In the high times on the Comstock Lode
She kept the miners minin' and the money flowed
But it never was the same after Julia got done in

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from Thrift Store Melodies, released May 30, 2015

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Darren Senn

Darren Senn thrives on engaging his audiences with storytelling and simple, yet well-crafted songs.

His often melancholy humor is balanced with plenty of keen insight, ripe with colorful stories and revealing admissions of his shortcomings and how he moves past them with whatever grace he may stumble upon.
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