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about

I got a song prompt from a writer's group as a "gift" one week in the form of a photograph from the 60's of a little girl in a confirmation outfit in the backyard. It reminded me of trips to my mother's home place in Oelwein, Iowa. I was visiting her and her sick, now deceased husband in the nearby environs often at the time I wrote it, wistfully.

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SUNDAY © 2016 Julie Christensen

Bare Trees in a sunlight crown
White patent leather shoes on the cold hard ground
In the dry brown grass of early spring
Out there in the yard beyond the swings

Mother Mary Open Arms
I am raising up my palms
Sunday
Praying to make sense
Of where the Fridays went
Sunday

I smiled but the camera knew
Little cat-eye glasses hid my eyes so “blue”
Grandma’s daffodils came up in time
For April First Communion in Oelwein

Mother Mary Open Arms
I am raising up my palms
Sunday
Praying to make sense
Of where the seasons went
Sunday

All my people left that town
Got married or they died or they’re not around
Used to be a homemade grotto there
That my daddy built for the Virgin Mary

But I don’t see her now
I can’t feel this place any more
I close my eyes just like before

Mother Mary Open Arms
I am raising up my palms
Sunday
Praying to make sense
Of where the decades went
Sunday
Sunday
Sunday

credits

from A Sad Clown, released March 16, 2018
Sunday 4:12
© Julie Christensen, Stone Cupid Music BMI
12-string acoustic: Chris Tench
12-string acoustic: Sergio Webb
guitar: Julie
banjo: Jeff Turmes
backup vocals: Renée Wahl, Julie

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Julie Christensen Albuquerque, New Mexico

Julie Christensen’s story is woven into decades of Roots Music. A veteran of Leonard Cohen’s bands, she co-fronts post- punk rockers Divine Horsemen, which rebooted to release new work in 2021. While the pandemic was still going on, Julie moved from Nashville to NM and began the 2+ year process of recording "The Price We Pay for Love," out 4/14/2023 on WireBird Records. ... more

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