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Pearl's Song
by Sharmagne Leland-St. John

They came to mourn
They came to cry
They came to wonder
How someone like her could ever die

She had fame and fortune in her youth
The songs she sang were songs of truth

The moon it waned, the moon it waxed
Her train was slippin' down the tracks
The sky was dark the clouds were pale
When she rode out on a midnight rail

I can still see her in the studio that night
Restless, and her voice was tight
All in a knot
Yet when she said goodbye who would have thought
She'd never see the morning light
But the sky was dark and her face was pale
As she rode out on the midnight rail

They came from far across the land
They waved her pictures in their hand

They came to mourn
They came to cry
They came to wonder
How someone like her could ever die

Although it's been over 30 years
Since we shed our loving tears
Since that indigo night
When we kissed and said goodbye
Your star has never dimmed
Your ashes were scattered in a gentle wind.
The sky was dark and the clouds were pale
When you rode out on the midnight rail 



for Janis Joplin (Pearl)
January 19, 1943 - October 4, 1970


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