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Della Rae Hutchins

Blue ribbon box, blue ribbon box

Keeps a notebook of things people said to her and dates them like evidence

the numbers

bpm
99
key
D# major
energy
0.68
dance
0.95
valence
0.62
vocal at
4.8s
length
4:01
language
En

lyrics

He drove the same F-150

To my ninth-grade county show

Sat by the folding chairs in denim

Clapped once, then asked to go

On my dresser sat the trophy

Blue ribbon, gold and white

He walked past it every morning

Never said a word that night

Blue ribbon box, blue ribbon box

He kept that blue ribbon box

Blue ribbon box, blue ribbon box

That old blue ribbon box

Blue ribbon box, blue ribbon box

He kept that blue ribbon box

Blue ribbon box, blue ribbon box

And that said more than talk

Years went by in Franklin mornings

Mud on boots by the door

I found it in his top drawer

Ribbon folded with a score

Tucked beside his Sunday cufflinks

Under all his fishing line

My name written in his handwriting

On the back, one crooked line

Blue ribbon box, blue ribbon box

He kept that blue ribbon box

Blue ribbon box, blue ribbon box

That old blue ribbon box

Blue ribbon box, blue ribbon box

He kept that blue ribbon box

Blue ribbon box, blue ribbon box

And that said more than talk

He never said, "I'm proud of you"

Not on birthdays, not on snow

But he saved that little ribbon

Like he couldn't let it go

Blue ribbon box, blue ribbon box

He kept that blue ribbon box

Blue ribbon box, blue ribbon box

That old blue ribbon box

Blue ribbon box, blue ribbon box

He kept that blue ribbon box

Blue ribbon box, blue ribbon box

And that said more than talk