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Black buttons
03:26
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i came down virginia with a pain in my heart and i left my mama cold
she though she had just one more chance but i would not go to mexico
three leaf clover fescue and rye was the grass growing over the ground
i put my sister in the driver side ‘cause i could not make it alone
west memphis into arkansas and i do not remember the road
by the time we saw the mountainside there was hail from the tornado
old black buttons came and told me my one and true desire
black buttons came and told me what wasn’t to be mine
well i packed my bags and i shaved my face went from dirt road into the sky
and i wasn’t till she took me from the rails that she knew what i left behind
but i don’t mind you know its always fine i am always ready to go
in my mind i’m always looking to find someplace i don’t know
i loved her dear and she’s a part or all of everything i know
and i’m always surprised at just how fast i was ready to see her go
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Turkey in the coal mine
03:32
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i didn’t know the chicken in the goat barn
was laying out there scratching on the hay
the turkey off the hillside i stared giving feed
i had to take her away and set her free
sally came through the way we do
pulling up the tracks as she went through
i take a little comfort from the strangest things
like a tarring roof and the smell of gasoline
take a little a time is it someone else’s time
is there some money to be paid
pull a little hard time is that hard time
or is that something we don’t know
nickel in the pay yard rounded down each time
i could break that in 2 if it wasn’t for keeping them mine
take a little kindness its always fine
if theres one thing i’d have you remember it’d be mine
take a little time is it someone else’s time
how i wish it could be mine
pumpkin in the corn patch well no one knew
how it planted itself and why it grew
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Half a sack
02:30
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half a sack of flour and half a sack of seed
theres only one thing to get me off my knees
and thats one thing indeed
what i don’t know won’t take that long
it doesn’t make it right but don’t make it sound so wrong
when its been so long
give me a little time before you know you’re going away
give me a little time when i don’t know you’re going away
hey little one hanging in that tree
you better hold on tight if you know whats good for me
and thats one thing indeed
everything i do and everything i say
doesn’t make any sense to anyone anyway
come and see me today
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Asleep from the whiskey
04:06
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asleep from the whiskey at 7:30
and the name of the city isn’t going to make it seem romantic
a silver foil bag on wine and he’s still got it when the morning shines
i tried to get it when he wouldn’t know
but he just wouldn’t let it go
i don’t know if they were good times
because i was drinking or if i was because it was bad
it those kind of lights i don’t ever see
because i’m out before its too dark to see
i hold it close but i’ll never let it show
if it was only real i could only let it go
but it all gone now like we were all gone all the time
the kids are running through their clothes like its always summertime
its been ten years now since those songs about the wine
and i don’t know if you exist or if you were only in my mind
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Downward facing dog
02:30
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old charlie went down in the mine
he didn’t go to get what he could find
he didn’t go to get no gold he only went down to go down
buckethead would tell that song
tell it once and the whole day long
never changed or stayed the same
never did know never could see never would he tell no reason
bobcat would chase that stone
roll it till it had some meat of its own
dip his paws and run that creek
it was one more thing that cat could eat
jackdaw don’t sing no song
raven made it up all on is own
never says how it will end but its just the same as it began
never did know no reason
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Down around
05:37
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i threw out my shoes i didn’t need them to walk away
when things get trashed they don’t go that far away
lifted up my hat ‘cause the sun wasn’t in my way
but i couldn’t see that there was nothing to say
and it was down around the time you came on
and i was fine around the time you came on
just pull me aside when you get out
she wouldn’t drive and the trains don’t run that way
the tracks are still there but now its an aeroplane
i just want to be only as good as i am
and i can’t recall being able to change the man
i took off her shirt and i gave her my only coat
she wasn’t hurt but she was way to cold
i just want to be only and all of her
and i couldn’t tell anyone before i told her
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Norfolk
02:50
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amie came running down from norfolk
to see the one that he was thinking of
she was only the 2nd or the 3rd girl that he loved
always tickets for the train now that he’s working those dishes in the club
no bills only celebration he kept the money down in a hole in his glove
he knew about the sandinistas and the iran contra affair
though he didn’t understand it
it was the reason for the punk rock way he cut his hair
jamie came running with the wonder
of the places and the things he’s never seen
and one day he just walked out and went somewhere he’d never been
and he never said goodbye to that woman and he still hasn’t heard
he was two times forgiven but he still doesn’t know about the third
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further on up road you’ll find someone you know
and you can lay it all out and come down slow
i’ve been there too and i know that its true
its all the same
running down the whole town and running the windmills wild
you can wash your ills and feel the way you will
and theres nothing to keep the joy from you
and always how will come to you know
and its all for you
everlasting joy
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Middle Lila
04:16
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when you come down know i’m no good alone
when the blacktop winds and the middle lines make the sides
past the trees past the trees on the county line
where middle lila came to me
she’s seen the storms in the atmosphere
and she knows how things can get around here
but middle lila came to me
when you come down know i’m know good alone
but middle lila came to me
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10. |
Psychopharmacology
04:00
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chemical haze my night lasted all day
over the mountain into the sand
i only ate one milligram
2 cowboys in a german car
running out through the border town
dust and breeze underneath the sea
and i’d wake up to the beat
i only ate one milligram
all those lights coming from the sand
we didn’t stop to watch them shine
coming out through the boundary land
to the furniture in the sand
i only ate one milligram
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Revolution & insomnia
04:29
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drinking off the drive pulling behind a loaded semi
drinking mexican liquor from a plastic jug
waking up to the deep sunlight wondering how i slept all night
the first hour goes so fast when i don’t have to steal the gas
all night on a res stop bench with nothing but a mind
hey charlie lad they’ll take it all from you if you want it that bad
and were we really so confused or did we just drown
from what there was to offer from glamour in the underground
asleep from the whiskey chorus chords of low g with an aug. and the c up the neck in the same pattern reverting to usual chord starting at line before and i don’t know if you exist
harmonics right before closing out with last chord held
i’ve never seen anyone take to the 1974 that way
i should of just given you the key it had nothing more to give me
looking for the perfect sky somewhere in your utah mind
sleeping out all night in a blanket in a ditch
thats where anyone knows theres no use it finding it home
theres just no reason in mind its all been left behind
i hate to see you up all night on a plane to follow up on your misery
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Frame the river
04:36
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bring it down slowly and stay down
beat it in a head
only knowing half the way is read
frame the river davey and come down
feel the river low
unbound and only hi the river so
lay down only empty away from being led
with memories of moments
missing in your head
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cousin daniel he went down to the floor
little peter picked him up and gave him more
back in my town we just talked of getting out
there was nothing else worth thinking about
bessie'd sing about that evening sun
and how it would bring her down
but i can see it and it comforts me
to know i'll only watch it go so many times around
you know i love you there''s no leaving behind
i'm along for whatever we find
goodtime johnny made his promises and swore
and than he put another hole in the door
now my hometown doesn't seem so bad
though i haven't been there in sometime
i had that little room all to myself every day for a while
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