Cleveland’s own “Skinny Little Boy” Alex Bevan and collaborator David J. Young recently unveiled an album and a book about youth, aging and Boomer-hood. The following are lyrics to their song, “Marietta at Midnight,” an homage to an innocent time.
MARIETTA AT MIDNIGHT
Marietta at midnight
dark current and a drink of desire
steamboats plow upstream
smoke … sparks … fire …
Marietta at midnight
Wear what’s good for you
What flows like wind through willows
That you’re not afraid to lose …
down on the banks of the sacred river
down the banks we’ll go
down, down, down
to the Ohio
See Marietta by midnight
From shore near the Lafayette
Waves kiss rocks with searching tongues
Where the trees are silhouettes
down on the banks of the sacred river
down the banks we’ll go
down, down, down
to the Ohio
12 of 52
Stars bear witness … how I love you so
Shadow and pale moonshine
The drone and dim nocturnal hymns
Sing till our hearts combine
So meet me
Meet me, meet me
Marietta at midnight
Wear what’s good for you
Something that loves the water
You’re not afraid to lose …
down on the banks of the sacred river
down the banks we’ll go
down, down, down
to the Ohio
