THOMAS singing High on the mountain.....

High on the Mountain

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THOMAS singing

High on the mountain..

Lo wind blowin’ free..

JAKE enters with his breakfast of fried eggs and sits in the other chair

Thinkin’ ‘bout the day that used to be

High on the mountain standin’ all alone

Wondering where the days of my life had flown…

THOMAS continues riffing around but not making an actual song

JAKE munching

Know when I was about 11. Dad tried to teach me how to ride a lawn mower. One of those rickety death traps. Not the kind that kinda’ look like a race car. Well.. I got on there.. Pair of my mom’s garden gloves. Boots too big. A Miami Dolphins cap of all things. And it got so shaky. Rattling and cuttin’, ratllin’ n cuttin’, it was like… God reached out to me from the heavens, picked me up and…

JAKE puts his hands together as if grabbing an imaginary person

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