Josh Ritter - Harrisburg lyrics

Romero got married on the fifth of July
In Our Lady of Immaculate Dawn
Could have got married in
The revival man’s tent
But there ain’t no reviving what’s gone

They slipped like a shadow from
The family he made
In a little white house by the woods
Dropped the kids at the mission with
A rose for the virgin
She knew he was gone for good

It’s a long way to heaven
It’s closer to Harrisburg
And that’s still a long way from
The place where we are and if evil exists
It's a pair of train tracks
And the devil is a railroad car

Could have stayed somewhere
But train tracks kept going
It seems like they always left soon
And the people he ran with
They moaned low and painful
Sang sad misereres to the moon

Rose at the altar, withered and wilted
Romero sank into a dream
He didn’t make heaven and
He didn’t make Harrisburg
He died in a hole in between

Now some say that man is the root of all evil
Others say God’s a drunkard for pain
Yeah, me, I believe that the Garden of Eden
Was burned to make way for a train
For a train