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Joe and his family hear about the death of their son in the war.

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A MASKED CHARACTER
Only a mother can tell this story
Only a drum can sound this scene
Blind tragedies of time and space
And now the deaths begin

Begin with the son in a foreign place
Begin with the Beans, happy but lost
Begin with ignorance and end with fact
Start the blows of the golden axe
The soldiers don’t know that the Beans don’t know.
The mother believes that the son still lives
What was living will die
What was cherished will not survive

Filaments of love bind this story
So fine we might not see them
So frail we might not find them
Only a mother’s grief and glory
Her heart beats like a drum
In the pulse...
The eternal story.

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from The Suffering of Joe Bean, released December 12, 2012
Only A Mother
© 2004 Music & Lyrics by Bob McAllister Music by Mark Nichols

Lead Vocal: Julie Lewis; Percussion: Jarrod Kaplan; Bass: Jessica Logan; Backup Vocals; Mari Finch; Piano: Mark Nichols

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Mark Nichols Bellingham, Washington

Is a writer, composer, and filmmaker
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