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Old Mill River

from "Stairway to Evan" by Evan P. Donohue

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This song was written and originally performed by Slonk Donkerson, A Brooklyn-based punk band consisting of Parker Silzer, Dylan Vandenhoeck, and Zack O'brien. The four of us lived about 4 minutes from each other in Pound Ridge NY. This song reminds me of one afternoon we all shared together after school. I had found a 16mm film canister behind the hardware store where I worked. It contained the home videos of an old lady I knew as a customer. In it she was much younger and very pretty. It was only about fifteen minutes or so of her and her daughter playing in the leaves out in her yard during Fall.

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I am just another white man
I have never seen a funeral
pistol in hand I wander the yard
I'm an elderly woman
I am living with dementia
I go to the park to rip up the grass
at old mill river
you cover the clover
a second is over on an autumn day

I'm the mental (metal) eraser
some old picture of winter
would you look at that kid have you seen him before
I am each and every morning
the real home video
what I see in my sleep I see in memory more
at old mill river
you cover the clover
a second is over on an autumn day

credits

from "Stairway to Evan", released October 12, 2014
Coley Hinson on Bass guitar

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Evan P. Donohue Nashville, Tennessee

Raised in NY & hailing from TN, EPD, co-founding father of Nashville punk outfit, Diarrhea Planet, finds a niche within the chamber pop library between Beck and Elvis Costello. Fans of EPD note wit in his lyricism & the raw gravity of his live performances. Listeners will fall under the spell of Nashville pretty boy's ability to create garage-pop which blows a kiss at Squeeze & Harry Nilsson. ... more

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