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The Scoundrel Groom of the Lovely Faith Summers

by Treesha deFrance

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This is a song about a young bride, Faith Summers, who was abandoned by her older husband after their wedding night. He went out for cigarettes and never returned. This is the only known photograph of her.
(spoiler) She waited 3 days at the historic Hassayampa Inn, Prescott Arizona, in the Grand Balcony honeymoon suite, Room 426, and then in utter despair, hung herself from the hotel’s bell tower.
According to the legend, Faith’s spirit is often experienced by guests and staff since her suicide in 1927. Some local musicians would perform in the hotel on Sundays, and we experienced many unusual activities as a group, and I had an experience when I was alone in the rest room.
I felt inspired to write a song about the story and perform it there, which only happened a few times because Sunday music soon ended. I felt inspired to tell the story from the perspective of a spirit tired of the attention on her, the poor distraught young bride, but instead focused on the man who abandoned her, broke her heart and destroyed her dreams for a happy future. “Remember him, the Scoundrel Groom who vanished on their honeymoon.”

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The Scoundrel Groom of the Lovely Faith Summers
Treesha deFrance

She wore her lovely wedding clothes
She felt the joy a young lover knows
She gave herself to be his wife
Eager for their brand new life

The old man took her on a flight
He took her on her wedding night
He didn’t mean a thing he said
He played a game and then he fled

Ooh Scoundrel Groom, he was the Scoundrel Groom

Three long days in 426
Three long nights her heart was sick
Waiting lonely winter nights
For his return to make it right

Who would help her pay the bills?
Who would help her eat her fill?
Who would want her now that he
Had taken her virginity?

Ooh Scoundrel Groom, he was the Scoundrel Groom

One heart broken with despair
One man running who knows where, who knows where
She couldn’t bear the loss that he inflicted
So cruelly

She wept until her tears were gone
Gone like him she was alone
She put the rope over her head
Faith was dead

Ooh Scoundrel Groom, he was the Scoundrel Groom

She roams this old elite hotel
That became her bridal hell
She knows she is remembered for
Wants him to be remembered more

So think of Faith but when you do
Remember that her heart was true
Remember him the Scoundrel Groom
Who vanished on their honeymoon

Ooh Scoundrel Groom, he was the Scoundrel Groom

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released November 8, 2021
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Treesha deFrance Arizona

The SkaMatics, Lancaster PA, guitar, bass and backing vocals.

Reason International Reggae Band, Baltimore-DC, bass, backing vocals, songwriter

Nicky Grand and The Slammers, Lancaster PA, bass

The Canarys, Prescott AZ, vocalist, songwriter, guitar and keyboards

Solo singer-songwriter, recording artist,
Central Arizona ... more

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