Coming up this Saturday ... Jim Gleason's Little People - Part 2

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"Dewberry Place"
There was a time I truly miss
A time of charm and grace
Embodied in an edifice 
Known as Dewberry Place
Children played in its maple shade
And ladies dressed in lace
Made music and light fill the Georgia night
On the porch of Dewberry Place

Its mistress was a beauty
By the name of Mary Grey
And suitors came for miles around
Just to steal her heart away

There were doctors and lawyers and farmers
And soldiers and senators and fakes
Swinging her in her swings and telling her things 
While eating her cookies and cakes
But time and youth don't linger 
And pride would make its case
She could have married anyone
But she hid from the sun
In the shade of Dewberry Place

They found her long years later 
Locked in an upper room
A recluse gray with a faded bouquet 
From a long ago night in June
As they led her down the front steps 
A smile crossed her sad old face
"Waltz me one more tune 
'Neath the Chattahoochee moon
On the porch of Dewberry Place"

They've pulled the old house down now 
And put up a superstore
With parking rights and bright street lights 
But nobody knows what for
Though they still recall a summer 
That time cannot erase
Embodied in an edifice 
Known as Dewberry Place

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