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Vienna, Illinois

from A Sad Clown by Julie Christensen & Stone Cupid

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On the way back from visiting Mom in Iowa to Nashville, you go by the Shawnee Correctional Institution next to the National Forest of the same name. The nearby town is not pronounced in the way that you would think. I did not know that as I was keeping myself awake singing its name over and over in a lilting, catchy (at least I think so!) fashion all the way home. Then I wrote my first ever song on mandolin. Then I googled Vienna, Illinois to make sure...and had to sing it differently!

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Vienna, Illinois
© 2016 Julie Christensen
I read your letter again today
I didn't even feel sad
I wonder, if I picked up the pen and the paper 
Could I even write you back?
Vienna, Illinois
Vienna, Illinois
You never came to visit me
I never wanted your tears
My window looks right out onto the Shawnee 
I saw a sweet runnin deer
So free.
So free.
Vienna, Illinois
Vienna, Illinois

I hardly talk to the other man who shares my cell
I try not to think too much in between the bells
It don't feel like livin any more than it feels like I'm dyin
It just feels like I'm shufflin' through hell
It just feels like I'm shufflin' through hell
Vienna, Illinois
Vienna, Illinois
Downwind from trouble at the swamps at Grantsburg
Murderers out walkin after eighteen years
Then there are those of us whose lives changed forever
Due to blindness from the beer
And I've never even seen the town
No I've never even seen the town
Vienna, Illinois
Vienna, Illinois
So free (We're not that different, you and I)
So free (I think about that all the time)
Vienna, Illinois
Vienna, Illinois
Vienna, Illinois
Vienna, Illinois

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from A Sad Clown, released March 16, 2018
Vienna, Illinois 4:53
© Julie Christensen, Stone Cupid Music BMI, Mary Bragg, Mary Bragg Music ASCAP
12-string guitar, guitar: Chris Tench
guitar, resonator: Sergio Webb
acoustic bass: Jeff Turmes
snare drum: Steve Latanation
backup vocals: Renée Wahl, Brett Ryan Stewart, Julie, Chris Tench

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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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