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In eight years of marriage
the Yates had five children
four boys and one little girl.
Times were hard
nothing easy down
in seminole florida
In 97' they left the travel trailer
and went back to Texas
lived in a renovated bus
No one can tell you
how four walls can close in
for years they lived
light and followed God.
But when I was just seventeen
a valedictorian
captain of the swim team
Dont ' forget
I was a member
of the National Honor Society.
June '99
after the fourth child
she started seeing things
hearing things, listening
to a preacher his words
salvation surely bring.
Michael Woronecki
a traveling minister
preached a sermon
about women made
Andrea see the role
of wife and mother
is derived from
the original sin of eve
I was a good girl
I studied nursing
graduated from UT
An RN at the cancer center
When I met Rusty
when we married I was twenty-three.
One day with a sharp knife
at her throat pointed
she threatened suicide
she cried and she pleaded
with rusty to let that day
be their last goodbye.
Catatonic for ten days
Docs said no more babies
haldol they gave her
soon she was feeling well
Rusty would move
them into a real home
November 2000
brought a baby girl.
I prayed and I prayed
I read the bible
sometimes frantically
a better wife?
a better mother?
Lord, can you make out of me?
Desperate days
homeschooling the children
after her dad died
she went spiraling
One by one
took them to the water
held them under
until they stayed
Andrea Yates sits in
harris county prison
Michael still preaching
under east texas pines.
I saw Rusty on Larry King
the other day
If you ask me
he looked just fine.
When I was just seventeen
a valedictorian
Don't you forget
I was a member
of the National Honor Society.
the Yates had five children
four boys and one little girl.
Times were hard
nothing easy down
in seminole florida
In 97' they left the travel trailer
and went back to Texas
lived in a renovated bus
No one can tell you
how four walls can close in
for years they lived
light and followed God.
But when I was just seventeen
a valedictorian
captain of the swim team
Dont ' forget
I was a member
of the National Honor Society.
June '99
after the fourth child
she started seeing things
hearing things, listening
to a preacher his words
salvation surely bring.
Michael Woronecki
a traveling minister
preached a sermon
about women made
Andrea see the role
of wife and mother
is derived from
the original sin of eve
I was a good girl
I studied nursing
graduated from UT
An RN at the cancer center
When I met Rusty
when we married I was twenty-three.
One day with a sharp knife
at her throat pointed
she threatened suicide
she cried and she pleaded
with rusty to let that day
be their last goodbye.
Catatonic for ten days
Docs said no more babies
haldol they gave her
soon she was feeling well
Rusty would move
them into a real home
November 2000
brought a baby girl.
I prayed and I prayed
I read the bible
sometimes frantically
a better wife?
a better mother?
Lord, can you make out of me?
Desperate days
homeschooling the children
after her dad died
she went spiraling
One by one
took them to the water
held them under
until they stayed
Andrea Yates sits in
harris county prison
Michael still preaching
under east texas pines.
I saw Rusty on Larry King
the other day
If you ask me
he looked just fine.
When I was just seventeen
a valedictorian
Don't you forget
I was a member
of the National Honor Society.
Jim Bouchard
Your voice is really nice, and the song is really powerful. Reminds me of Michelle Shocked or Mary Gauthier. The loops sort of hold this back, of course.