Kitchen Table and Chairs - Rita Hosking

Kitchen Table and Chairs Lyrics

Thirty years of love and work, children come and gone,
Living on the land, fought hard times to make it work
Fifty thousand acres, and still going strong,
This firestorm’s moving fast, “honey what you gonna take along?”
“If I can’t take the house itself, and I can’t take the barn,
Let’s load up the kitchen table, ...can’t take it all, I’ll take a part...”
It’s where they gathered at the end of the day,
It’s where they were when grandpa passed away,
It’s a chair that was broken in a terrible fight,
Gently repaired by the same hands the next night.
In her dreams she’d seen it - the ghosts walking by,
Bent over wheelbarrows, collecting anything they could find.
Frightened creatures zig and zag, ashes in the sky,

An old stand of cedars wave their branches goodbye.
“You go on ahead, I’ll catch up soon”
She knew he’d stay, but drove away, ...there was nothing she could do.
It’s where they gathered...
Driving down the road thinking of him and that fire
And that beat up table and chairs, two halves bound by old wire.
Roundabout four a.m., a man straggles in –
Coughing and covered in soot, she jumps up and runs to him.
“I had to get out for my life, at least we’ve got ourselves.
I tried my best, ...guess we know we’ve got one thing left...”
It’s where they gathered...
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Lyrics submitted by Lowell.