Sam Falbo's Blues
Chris Castle
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Samuel T. Falbo was born in Floyd County Late 1950 in eastern Kentucky Raised by a TV repairman who tinkered With old radios in a dimly-lit kitchen Never able to put much food on the table In a coal-covered holler in southern Floyd County Sam and his brothers all split for Ohio The day that oldest was legal to drive Stacked in an Oldsmobile shoulder to shoulder Like the bedroom they'd shared all those years in Kentucky Six hungry brothers, all feeling lucky Running Route 23 to a home in Ohio Samuel T. Falbo found work on Lake Erie Pouring three hundred miles of the Ohio Turnpike With his three younger brothers and an old Puerto Rican Who could outwork those Falbos even when he'd been drinking From the time he woke up, to the five o'clock whistle To a smoke-filled hotel room on the Ohio Turnpike Sam met a girl who washed clothes for a living On the corner of Mill Street in Huron, Ohio And the traffic on Mill Street stood still when she'd smile And she always did smell like the freshest of linens So he gave her his name and she gave him six children All baptized in a single room church on Lake Erie Samuel T. Falbo bought a house by an orchard That stretched from the tracks nearly clear to the turnpike Where his two oldest brothers toiled when they were sober Enough to pick apples from twenty-foot ladders And when they weren't scrapping metal or trading in horses Or sleeping on couches in the house by the orchard Sam was an old man before he turned thirty From decades of concrete and honest hard living Paycheck to paycheck, layaway and credit Knowing this life would kill him, if only he'd let it And a month after forty, old Falbo he let it And they buried Sam Falbo by a church on Lake Erie Samuel T. Falbo died broke and unnoticed A stroke in an Oldsmobile on County Line 20 Leaving seven mouths hungry and fourteen hands empty And no food on the table in a dimly-lit kitchen Just seven mouths hungry and fourteen eyes weeping And one middle-aged widow who smelled like the linens
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