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The Shellac Waltz
A jukebox repairman fixes the last waltz for a lonely widow and discovers it was her own mother's voice.
- Duration
- 2:59
- Last aired
- Today, 07:08
- Played
- 49 times
Lyrics
Verse
Anna fixes jukeboxes for a living,
and Mrs. Dovgal's waltz skips at the seventh bar.
The old widow pays her to make it play straight through,
so Anna works alone beneath one humming bulb.
Chorus
It's the tune you didn't know you were missing,
playing in a room where nobody dances.
One scratched shellac disc still holds a whole life,
and the silence never once asked its name.
Verse
Behind the loose wires she found a paper sleeve,
and the label read, "For my girl, on her tenth birthday."
She cleaned the needle and she bent the arm just so,
and the waltz came through clean for the first time in years.
Chorus
It's the tune you didn't know you were missing,
playing in a room where nobody dances.
One scratched shellac disc still holds a whole life,
and the silence never once asked its name.
Bridge
Anna sat down on the dusty floor and cried,
because the blue ink on that label was her mother's hand.
Chorus
It's the tune you didn't know you were missing,
playing in a room where nobody dances.
One scratched shellac disc still holds a whole life,
and the silence never once asked its name.