Salem County

Salem County
words and music by David Kleiner


I'm going to leave this winter town
Before the first robin of spring
And when the summer rolls around
I'll find my new love beckoning

CHORUS: You can't run from your own shadow
You can't hide from your own mind
If you’re going to Salem County
Lose your soul in the Jersey Pines

Once I lived a life so precious
Strolling through Ken Lockwood Gorge
Rolling all the way to High Bridge
Down by Taylor-Wharton Forge

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Times grew hard I needed money
You just can't live on foolish pride
Jack's Honey Farm run out of honey
His children chose to subdivide.

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Grey smoke across the Jersey Turnpike
Warm water run the Delaware
I hear her crying in the midnight
I feel her calling in my ear

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You're gonna lose your soul (4)