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Hail Mary

from Zero by Crushing Ground

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I wrote this song for my mother who sadly passed away around the same time I was experimenting with this chicken-pickin' riff. Strangely, I was there greeting everyone at her viewing and that part kept running in the back of my mind. Instead of fighting it, I started scatting lines about her life on the way home and realized right then that I would write a celebration song of who she was.

Everyone but me, called her by her middle name Gerry, short for Geraldine...I called her Mom :) I was just standing there looking at her first name "Mary" printed on the funeral card and immediately thought of the prayer title. She was one of the most devoted Catholics I will ever know, so borrowing the few lines from that prayer fit her perfectly. I came home from her burial and the whole song came pouring out of me, I could barely write down the lyrics fast enough.

Singing this song in the bars was always a little hard for me. But I figured that singing about her strength and beauty would give me the strength to honor her properly...no matter where I played it.

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from Zero, released January 1, 2002

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Rob Roush Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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