HYMNS 301–310 · RISEN DOUGH RECORDS

Two Hundred Dozen

2000 · Risen Dough Records · 10 tracks

Final album. Ten songs, the best they ever sounded. The cover photograph is the back of a 1984 Pontiac Safari with the windows fogged. Dedicated to everyone who stood in the New Covenant parking lot at 6:30 in the morning on April 19, 1997.

1. 01Two Hundred Dozen4:06

   Wes sings lead. The key change is for Peace Haven Road.

   Words

   Fire took a family's house in March, they got out with what they wore
   We didn't have much money, but we'd sold donuts before
   We ordered sixty dozen and we thought that was a lot
   Put the sign out by the road and Tracy made the coffee hot
   Six-fifteen the lot was full and the cars were down the street
   Folks in work clothes and folks still half asleep
   
   Danny's daddy took the wagon, the old brown one with the rust
   Said y'all keep on playing, and he pulled out in the dust
   He came back up Stratford Road with the springs down on the frame
   Two hundred dozen in the back and the windows fogged with steam
   
   Two hundred dozen
   And the sun coming up
   Nobody waited for their change
   They just topped off their cup
   Two hundred dozen
   Never seen so many hands
   That's how you build a house
   Before the first wall stands
   
   The family stood by the fellowship door like they didn't know where to look
   Marcus played the long slow chords like the ones out of the book
   Nobody made a speech and nobody passed a plate
   Just a box and a coffee can and a line that wouldn't wait
   
   Two hundred dozen
   And the sun coming up
   Nobody waited for their change
   They just topped off their cup
   Two hundred dozen
   Never seen so many hands
   That's how you build a house
   Before the first wall stands
   
   By the Fourth they had a frame
   By Thanksgiving, a door
   And every April, on that morning
   We order one dozen more
   
   Two hundred dozen
   And the sun coming up
   Nobody waited for their change
   They just topped off their cup
   Two hundred dozen
   Never seen so many hands
   That's how you build a house
   Before the first wall stands

2. 02Line Out to the Road
3. 03Night Shift
4. 04Ten in the Morning
5. 05The Clipboard
6. 06Somebody Else's Kids
7. 07Stratford Road
8. 08Charlotte
9. 09Safari
10. 10For a Year