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Around The World
03:53
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i been around the world
i seen the birds fall from the sky
i seen the paper dolls
folded and faded my o my
and every drop of rain
seems to wash away the pain
and every moonless sky
comes on like a lullaby
he used his wishes up
and now he's lost out on the road
a wound he stitches up
and goes on tearing what he sewed
and every drop of rain
might've seen him through the pain
and every moonless sky
might have been his lullaby
don’t let worry be your home
don’t let hurry be your only speed
and if you do decide to roam
may you find all you need
don't spend your love too fast
just save a little for the end
don't make your troubles last
or make 'em feel like they're your friends
‘cause every drop of rain
is going to see you through the pain
and every moonless sky
is going to be your lullaby
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Cold As A Knife
03:47
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west of the wind and east of you
and i don't know what i'm gonna do
thought i'd found the perfect town
but they been throwing your name around
they're closing down the 84
and i can't hold this wheel no more
hide my memory in my boot
leave my name in another suit
and it's cold it's cold
it's cold it's cold
it's cold as a knife right here
old man crying on the telephone
little girl about half grown
went all wrong but she couldn't say
why'd she throw it all away
and in the end she's just like me
in the navy in '93
got drunk on a watch and then
never had to look at Norfolk again
and it's a cold it's a cold
it's cold it's cold
it's cold as a knife right here
i wanna say the road is just a killer
it’s long and cold and black
i gotta see what’s over that hill
but the road will never bring me back
that one time we all were there
with the wine and the folding chairs
pitching horseshoes in the sun
and we laughed just like anyone
but now we’re scattered just dry leaves
and i got nothing up my sleeves
you’re my soul my sin my star
good luck to you wherever you are
and it's cold it's cold
it's cold it's cold
it's cold as a knife right here
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Hole
03:58
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lots of people talking about the bones they’re digging
digging up the big man’s yard
while everybody else is hanging from the rigging
they don’t wanna work so hard
talk about the time when they we’re flush
with everything they stole
now everybody need a place to hide somewhere
it’s high time we’re digging us a hole
we’re digging us a hole
digging us a deep dark deep dark hole
digging us a hole
we’re digging us a hole
digging us a deep dark deep dark hole
now some folks talking ‘bout they do so well
still they’re only digging up a hole
talk about the time in Bay St. Louis
me and old JD
six to six for six bucks an hour
giving it away for free
like it was meant to be
i said “JD won’t you hand me down a bucket?”
he just stood and shrugged
told me the sun ain’t never gonna rise
’til this hole gets dug
digging us a hole
digging us a deep dark deep dark hole
digging us a hole
digging us a hole
digging us a deep dark deep dark hole
tell me the sun ain’t never gonna rise
still we’re digging us a hole
looking at the holes up and down my street
everywhere you see
i think about ‘em like they was my old friends
and they’ve always been there for me
but one of there days well that’ll be the day
somebody’s gonna give a damn
i hope to hell that ain’t never gonna happen ‘cause i wouldn’t know who i am
digging up a hole
digging up a deep dark deep dark hole
digging up a hole
digging up a hole
digging up a deep dark deep dark hole
pretty good times up & down my street
still everybody got a hole
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These Dreams In Me
04:17
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if i laid my heart open—open like a book
could you see everything that it’s about
because it’s all in there somewhere if you care to look
even most of the things i left out
now i always rambled and i might’ve lost my way
and i know i lost my money now and then
now i’m sorting through the shambles
of a hazy couple days
and i wonder if i’m going home again
because i want to know where the pale moon goes
when he lays his burden down
and i want to be where it’s wild and free
before the next moon comes around
these dreams in me
now i left home when i was seventeen
and i never knew who i was before
but my brother came and found me woke me from a dream
said the old man ain’t getting up no more
there was trouble all around me and hope was wearing thin
could even feel the rope around my neck
never fails to astound me the places that i’d been
when you finally pulled me stumbling from the wreck
because i want to know where the pale moon goes
when he lays his burden down
and i want to be where it’s wild and free
before the next moon comes around
these dreams in me
just want to be wild and free
these dreams in me
need not be yours, you see…
now we’re riding on a vapor trail caught behind a mule
since we threw our little luck together
we’re a tiger with a paper tail almost out of fuel
and it looks like we’re in for nasty weather
you can almost taste it but the road is getting rough
and it seems like there’s a breakdown every mile
but it’s getting time we faced it and i hope that that’s enough
to keep us going for another little while
because i want to know where the pale moon goes
when he lays his burden down
and i want to be where it’s wild and free
before the next moon comes around
these dreams in me
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Mary Jane
04:42
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Mary Jane, Mary Jane
he has taken you on over Mary Jane
Mary Jane, Mary Jane
now your dying days are through Mary Jane
did i see you by the river
on a morning bright and fair?
did i see you by the river?
did you take some comfort there?
did you light out on a highway?
did you light out on a train?
did he come to take you home Mary Jane?
Mary Jane, Mary Jane
he has taken you on over Mary Jane
Mary Jane, Mary Jane
now your dying days are through Mary Jane
did he lead you by still waters
through the meadow gold and green?
didl i see you by that river?
will i see you in my dreams?
did he take away your sorrow?
did he wash away the stain?
did he come to make you whole Mary Jane?
Mary Jane, Mary Jane
he has taken you on over Mary Jane
Mary Jane, Mary Jane
now your dying days are through Mary Jane
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On The Streets Again
06:25
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it feels good to be back here, lord
you finally got me leaning forward
would you hear a song or two
about the times you put me through
and all the pieces of the sky
i want to see them by and by
open up your book for me
lord, for my name to see
i’m on the streets again
up on my feet again
a sometime citizen and the world is my own
and i got songs to share
i found them up in the air
but you can find them anywhere in the world you roam
i went to Texas as a pup
i saw your kingdom open up
i saw the wound a festering
i sort of thought I’d jump on in
and on the banks of the Ohio
i got into a deal and so
i turned tail and faded back
i started drifting another track
i’m on the streets again
up on my feet again
a sometime citizen and the world is my own
and i got songs to share
i found them up in the air
but you can find them anywhere in the world you roam
i thought i seen a miracle
i tried to make it lyrical
always want to wander out west
where the ghosts can’t find no rest
made my way from Washington
man i thought i was almost done
but i left a daughter in Saskatoon
i guess i’m heading back there soon
i’m on the streets again
up on my feet again
a sometime citizen and the world is my own
and i got songs to share
i found them up in the air
but you can find them anywhere in the world you roam
i set it down in Saskatoon
i spent while pushing brooms
but pretty soon that rambling jones
started aching in my bones
they took me down in Tukwila
i couldn’t make it another mile
a fella’s got to stop somewhere
might as well have been right there
i’m on the streets again
up on my feet again
a sometime citizen and the world is my own
and i got songs to share
i found them up in the air
but you can find them anywhere in the world you roam
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Off The Vine
03:47
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we’re out there somewhere with a ways to go
with the all night music on the radio
who’s that singing and what’s that song?
sun’s coming up Texas is soft and green
listen to the rattle of this old machine
gonna ride that rattle all nite long
we might be nowhere we might be right where we belong
heads full of wind and the roads been rough
i sometimes wonder have we seen enough
did we leave a little hasty? leave some thing behind?
might be Memphis could be Cheyenne
but i can’t recognize this highway man
but the feeling out here is oh so fine
hang on baby i think we might be falling off the vine
took a wrong turn yesterday
just kept right on going
sometimes you got to lose your way
if you want to make it home
so hang on baby hang on
might go east might go west take the wheel i got to get some rest
gonna stare a little while at the telephone line
sun comes up sun goes down sun’s gonna find us in another town
not lost yet but there’s still time
let’s both hang i think we might be falling off the vine
aw hang on hang on baby hang on
hang on hang on baby hang on
hang on whoo hoo baby hang on
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8. |
Same Way Down
04:14
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the wind was wrong and the shadows long
i thought maybe this was the final deal
the moon looked toward a burned out ford
i saw an angel at the wheel
the ride is free she said to me
free—if you listen to my secret
how far you going? never mind i’ve always known
the way you come on up you got to go the same way down
chimneys trees blowing black in the breeze
over there she said that was my daddy’s place
the town had a name and it once was the same as his
but that was never my disgrace
he never could meet my eyes on the street but still
still it never was no secret
as i grew i knew you can be lost and never be found
cuz how you come on up you got to go the same way down
how you come on up you got to go the same way down
she said i wouldn’t lie when i walked by
whole damn town looked away
i got out for good just as fast as i could
’til finally i came back one day
a spark then a flame and i head my name he said “mary
what have you done my daughter?”
i don’t feel no shame ‘cause everybody knows my name
the way i come on up i got to go the same way down
the way i come on up i got to go the same way down
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9. |
Drifter's Lament
06:24
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woke up this morning
and i lost my only friend
and now i’m on the road alone
an out front drifter and i’ll be until the end
no good idea where i’m going
we went down many a highway
spent some years in town
worked for many years for john mcghee
lived our life together
even when we were apart
it all came back again so easily
so goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
i’ll see you when i can
take flight, take flight, take flight, take flight
over to that other land
when there was trouble
and there was trouble all the time you said
i ain’t gonna go back to pretend
when you got trouble you got to face it like a man
you was more than a man up to the end
and when the darkness put me on my knees
you knew what i was thinking of
you were my mountain you were my Hercules
when they used to hate our kind of love
so goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
i’ll see you when i can
take flight, take flight, take flight, take flight
over to that other land
when the years go sprawling
go falling down the stairs
i know i’ll dream you now and then
when you come a calling
won’t be no judgment there
just hold my hand once again
a bird came up this morning
said son where is your heart?
i left it in that town just back a ways
i’m an out front drifter
and i’ve always played that part
looks like i’ll be drifting all my days
so goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
i’ll see you when i can
take flight, take flight, take flight, take flight
over to that other land
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Alex McMurray New Orleans, Louisiana
I'm a New Orleans based singer songwriter type. I play in a bunch of bands. I make recordings sometimes. Some of them are here. Thanks for supporting my work. Drop me a line--I'd love to hear from you.
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