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Whistling Dixie
03:48
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tell your mamma that i miss the gravy
tell your daddy they just took out the whole tooth
we've been waiting all day out in the country
for a parade that will never come
put my foot back on the throttle
whistle me dixie sing me a tune
shooting starts out in the field
when all i want to feel
is you kissing on me, big brown eyes
count out the songs
count out the days
lord it's hard to wait
5 more days
till the holiday
all your friends?
they have moved out of the valley
so we spent half of the night
just laughing in the kitchen
she's got all kinds of roses
growing out in the garden
what kind i don't know
i don't know
put my foot back on the throttle
whistling dixie singing a tune.
put my foot back on the throttle
i can hit it, it's as big as the moon.
feeling far, far from home.
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Rosary
04:00
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i'm calling you
from the golden sea.
another storm come up
the gulf coast prairie.
it's been a lifetime
of them pushing storms into me.
that 4th of july
we pushed a brush fire
back to the duneline
where we watched it go out for hours.
you want a north wind
you ain't going to get it
and every brick you lay
they gonna take
away.
when your rosary
is hanging in the breeze now
there ain't no coyote calling
from the salt cedar now.
uncle stevie had an old red boat tied to the back oak
floated all since alicia.
uncle stevie take his old red boat out to chocolate bays
to watch the coyotes returning
away
carve it away.
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Racehorse
03:41
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august is so damn hot
come on september
slow down october.
if i'm not here
you're letting yourself in
turning on the box fan
oh listen to you
you're like my scarecrow
no no, you don't scare me
who broke your wooden halo?
the swimming hole's got a crowd
even though it's drying out
nobody works in this town.
your sister's a racehorse
and your brother's a favorite
ain't all that speed dangerous?
but everything is great
it's like ten bucks in your tailgate.
i want a big red and a hot dog.
the buzzards are beautiful
you know i think they are coming down.
you know that bolder above town?
maybe we could push it down
whenever they land on what they're circling.
your sister's a racehorse
and your brother is a favorite
ain't all that speed dangerous?
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Resonate
04:47
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that's where he gets most all of his lines
a muffled song from another time
you hear the choir now what did you want to find?
a distant lover now what did you have in mind?
sage sparrow that's a long long flight
it's off the map and on the other side
you talk of colorado and i don't know why
you all heart it's in your eyes
you're gonna be living up on the mountain side
up in the snow
up on the mountain side
if it resonates
i watched it unfold.
you walked tall across the hardwood floor
slipped a flag in your bag as you walked out the door
something to hang on the wall from the summer that you went abroad
when you wrote of the deep blue sea
and all the buildings and all the books that you could read
so get all strong and full of keratin
fill up your heart and fill it with what you mean
if you're gonna leave, well honey, you better leave
and head up into the snow
up on the mountain side
if it resonates
I hear the fog horn blow
they're not lost they're getting close
watch the weather baby keep an eye on the coast
funny how after all this it's you that I get
when it blows
it's you up in the snow
you up on the mountain side
if it resonates
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Horizon
02:30
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tell em i could see em
tell em i could see em coming up on the horizon
and that i didn't want to leave
bottles left to drink out in the late night
but i had some things string up in my head
a barrel of monkeys jumping on the bed
got me worked up like a train maybe you could tell
sometimes baby that's the only way to get out
tell em i could see em
tell em i could see em coming up out of the moonlight
and that i didn't want to leave
i wanted to blow like leaves down the late night
did i hear some thing just over the edge?
did a couple them monkeys steal a thread from your head?
got me worked up like a train maybe you could tell
sometimes baby that's the only way to get out
but tell em i could see em
here they come
don't let em die young
here they come
don't let em die
don't let em die
but tell em I could see em
sometimes baby that's the only way to get out.
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Hard Lies
04:00
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2 ships
they pass in the night
to hell with it
they've gone out of sight
from the porch i see
a dozen rig lights, just like starlight
that summer came
that summer went
i forget who
who i was staying with
i remember swinging a hammer
i remember believing it
i told some hard lies, i told some good lies
i killed some good guys, i killed some bad guys
if i could walk away from it i'd shoot holes in it
pick it up,
you're stuck in a rut
mary i'm having this dream
i'm under a shade tree
off the water comes something
mary i'm having this dream
a black lady singing
in an old white church.
out on the beach at dusk, saint mary, hey
pick me up,
i'm stuck in a rut
i'm stuck in a rut
i'm stuck in a rut
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7. |
This Long Love
03:23
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he had just died there's still dust on his wings
just went into light like the moon was in reach
i'm waiting on the sun i'm waiting on the moon
i'm waiting, i'm waiting to see what you're gonna do.
you take what you're given
i'm feeling good, good this evening
i was low before i started believing
this is a long love
there's oysters in the moon they're spitting out the sea
they're spitting out you and they're spitting out me
did you chase all the lights all the ones you want to see?
or does the good love ever come back into reach?
you take what you're given
i'm feeling good, good this evening.
i was low before i started believing
this is a long love
you take what you been given
we're feeling good, good this evening
you got all burned up from all that believing
this is a long long long love
stay up on your feet
they won't believe it
stay up on your feet
cause they're going to die
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Donkey in Your Field
03:14
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let me be the donkey in your field
i'm gonna get tired but i won't sleep
there's a ghost in your garden, i see him
and i watch the mountain in new mexico moon
let me be the donkey in your field
i'm gonna get tired but i won't sleep
i never dropped no load
they never draw me on cave walls, less i'm pulling something
don't want to pull nothing
carrying you books and kicking off the dogs, that's what i'm dreaming
but you just keep walking by
let me be the donkey in your field
i'm gonna get tired but i won't sleep
i never dropped no load
hello
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9. |
Abilene
04:24
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i worked away my fears
in the back of a ford
called hope the frontier
and walked it off in the early morning
then i met you
when the river was high
throwing old love off the bridge
crying
with flowers in your hair
we bought a bus outside abilene
and with your fingers in my ribs
i wouldn't have known
what she was thinking of
when she was packing up
thought she was hanging on me
like i was the edge of the world, no.
but it's a grand old plan
save up some money, buy some land
draw some lines in the sand
your bare feet, my bare hands
but you blow wind blow
savanna comes and then she goes
out on the road and all alone
there's still some things she left in the van
sun
summer sun
where do i hang my head?
I love you, I could love you, I would love you
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Thorn
04:29
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memory
it gonna come it gonna leave
through doors you always close
windows that you never leave open
through your skin
it's in and out and in again
the irish is never far
that's their blood in your rhythm
that's just a thorn in your side
it ain't nothing
who was that friend
who picked you up
remember when?
she got you high
up on the levee side
who was that friend
don't matter much
in the end
hell of a smile
hell of a smile
radio
you turn it up and up some more
till just before you got to go
cause you want to come out swinging
that's just a thorn in your side
it ain't nothing
radio
turn it up some more
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Justin Stewart Austin, Texas
Justin Stewart is a native Texan from Houston who now resides in Austin.
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