We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Mary Dyer

from BORDER RADIO by Todd Hearon

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 USD  or more

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Wallet case with liner notes and photography by Brian Crowley and Nate Hastings. Autograph and personalized copy by request.

    Includes unlimited streaming of BORDER RADIO via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days
    edition of 50 

      $15 USD or more 

     

lyrics

MARY DYER

I came here with the reckoning done
And I saw the scales sink into the sun
And the fields were heavy with the heresy grain
And a lone tree leaned and chuckled my name

Oh up in Boston
It’s a hard falling from grace
Oh up in Boston
It’s a dark professing place

Well they welcomed me into the fold
And they bound my arms my hands to hold
They kissed my cheek my tongue to check
And knitted me a pretty noose around my neck

Oh up in Boston
It’s a hard falling from grace
Oh up in Boston
Such a dark professing place

They tied my skirts and covered my face
My house of bone and blood to raze
My body you kill, my spirit flies freed
As the big wind taking a dandelion seed

Spin my shroud when I come to die
With a thread too bright for the magistrate’s eye
No tongue can tell nor eye can see
That diamond dangling from the gallowman’s tree

Oh up in Boston
It’s a hard falling from grace
Oh up in Boston
Such a dark professing place

Such a dark professing place

credits

from BORDER RADIO, released August 20, 2021
Acoustic Guitar and Vocals: Todd Hearon
Vocal Harmonies: Scott Heron, Betsy Heron
Mandolins: Scott Heron, Glenn “Scotty” Scott
Fiddle: Betsy Heron
Northumbrian Small Pipes: Glenn “Scotty” Scott

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Todd Hearon Exeter, New Hampshire

Born in Fort Worth, Texas, and raised in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, Todd Hearon is a poet, author and songwriter living in Exeter, New Hampshire. His two studio albums are YODELADY (2023) AND BORDER RADIO (2021); he's also the author of three volumes of poems, a number of plays and essays, and a novella.

Click here for news on upcoming shows: bnds.us/lvev1t
... more

contact / help

Contact Todd Hearon

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this track or account

Todd Hearon recommends:

If you like Todd Hearon, you may also like: