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Pictures on Her Phone
02:38
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She was dancing in in the side room, cut-off jeans and cowboy boots
I told her I was married,
She said she was married too,
Yeeeah, yeaaah, yeaah
She showed me pictures on her cellphone
She showed me pictures of her cat
They were scandalous and well groomed,
She said whatdaya think of that?
Yeeeah, yeaaah, yeaah
She wasn't one to linger,
She wasn't one to carry on,
I still had my crown of thorns (oh for sure oh for sure),
but my wallet, that was gone...
Yeeeah, yeaaah, yeaah
I want you, I need you, I want you
I need you, I want you, I want you
I need you, I want you, I need you
I want you, I need you, I want you
Yeeeah, yeaaah, yeaah, Yeeeah, yeaaah, yeaah
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Gypsy Moon
03:04
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People whisper people shout, Once in a moon they let me out
Just a poor old fool reliving glory days
Through the misty evening clouds, shining luminous and proud
Gypsy Moon, light my way
Pass the old barn on the hill, through the night dark and still
There’s something that’s a' stirring in the air
She will rise and she will fall with the midnight carnival
Gypsy Moon, I missed you so
Hey, la la, Oh yeah hey! This poor old devil’s got the blues
Hey, la la, Oh yeah hey! We raise a glass to the Gyspy Moon
You used to call, I used to come, I’d chase the words right off your tongue
Stomp and sway to the 1 and 5
Travelers and vagabonds, we’d share a drink, we’d share a song
And lose ourselves in the midnight sky
Hey, la la, Oh hay hey! This poor old devil’s got the blues
Hey, la la, Oh hay hey! We raise a glass to the Gyspy Moon
But the morning comes too soon, where did you go my Gypsy Moon?
My heart is broken like the bottles on the floor
And to think of you again, well, I just can’t help but grin
Gypsy moon, you're mi amor ….
Hey, la la, Oh hay hey! This poor old devil’s got the blues
Hey, la la, Oh hay hey! We raise a glass to the Gyspy Moon
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Good Ol' Days
02:44
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Good Ol’ Days
Everybody talks about the good ol’ days
So longingly
But upon further inspection
They might not’ve been as good as they seem
Everybody talks about the good ol’ days
How the grass was oh so green
While skippin’ right over
All the grime in the cracks between
Me and my baby
All our hassles used to go unseen
But now we can’t even stay
On the same page from “A” to “Z”
Good ol’ days
Oh lord, they’re calling me
Good ol’ days
Find yourself an old blind prophet
And ask ‘em what they see
Everybody talkin’ bout the good ol’ days
So longingly
But the harder we look at ‘em
The harder they truly seemed
(gtr solo)
Good ol’ days,
Oh lord, they’re calling for me
Good ol’ days,
Turns out the old blind prophet
Truly couldn’t see
Everybody talkin’ bout the good ol’ days,
So longingly
But all them silver-lined purses
Startin’ to burst at the seams
(bridge)
No, I ain’t saying
We ain’t got no problems (presently)
Oh, all I’m saying,
Long as we got
Two shoes on our feet
Sure makes it harder to get mad about
This or that
Harder to get sad about
A trivial fact
When the fact of the matter is
All that really matters is still intact
Would everybody preachin’ bout the good ol’ days
Shut up already?
No more histories rife with
Short-term memories
Good ol’ days,
Oh lord, they’re stallin’ for me
Good ol’ days,
Yeah well I’m starting to find that
The present’s just fine by me
Everybody talkin’ bout the good ol’ days
So longingly
But at last glance
I must confess
At last glance
They were truly a mess
At last glance
They were doing their best
At last glance
They might notta been as good as they seemed
…but, they sure knew how to end a song.
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4. |
All Gone Wrong
02:53
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Ole Henry never liked to brawl, he’d shoot straight from the hip)
And at a card game one hot July, that's just what he’d did
When the smoke cleared in the barroom, they all saw what he'd done
Henry Walker may have left this town, but he didn't leave his gun
His better angels might have found him, a few miles down the road
But that devil on Henry’s shoulder just wouldn't let him go
Cause Henry grew up hard and mean, with not too many friends
When the world would try and break him, he never learned to bend…
Just was passing through, I was trying to get home
And now I got blood on my hands, and some of it's my own
And it's all gone wrong, And it's all gone wrong
Billy Morgan was the meanest and the quickest on the draw
In the little town he grew up in, just west of Omaha
No one knew what Henry did, to draw ole Billy's eye
But the word went round, it was going down, that someone’s gonna die
Poor Henry, he was drinkin' like a dry mule at a well
Billy, he just sat and stared, his eyes all full of hell
Half the town, had buckled down, outside the Cottonmouth
When Billy Morgan made his move, the smart folks headed out
Billy said to Henry, boy this town ain't big enough
I Think it's best that You should go 'Fore the Goin' gets too Tough
Slowly Henry Walker placed his hand upon the grip
Of the loaded Smith and Wesson that he carried (that he carried)… on his hip (1, 2 3 4, 1, 2, 3, 4)
Just was passing through, I was trying to get home
And now I got blood on my hands, and some of it's my own
And it's all gone wrong, And it's all gone wrong
And it's all gone wrong, And it's all gone wrong
And it's all gone wrong, And it's all gone wrong
And it's all gone wrong, And it's all gone….
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The envelope slid under the door,
He knew he’d seen that handwriting before
He poured a drink then he poured one more,
and it drank it all down, down, down
The letter read “I’m sorry I tried,
I can’t go on living by your side”
He tore it up and then he went for a ride,
The words kept going around, round, round
We’re all living by the second hand,
The clocks ticking faster than you planned,
Life’s too short don’t you to understand?
We’re all living by the second hand
It took a while for the words to sink in,
things were dark but the dawn came again
He was drowning but he learned how to swim,
Got back to solid ground, ground, ground
Sometimes it takes a while to see,
That some things just aren’t meant to be
You be you and baby, I’ll be me.
These words are going round, round, round
We’re all living by the second hand,
The clocks ticking faster than you planned,
Life’s too short don’t you to understand?
We’re all living by the second hand
We’re all living by the second hand,
The clocks ticking faster than you planned,
Life’s too short don’t you to understand?
We’re all living by the second hand
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Kier Byrnes & The Kettle Burners/Three Day Threshold Somerville, Massachusetts
Kier Byrnes, founder of Three Day Threshold and winner of "Best Local Band" by Boston Magazine, has played in the Middle East for the troops, the Jim Beam Distillery in Kentucky, a Belgium Prison and the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville. He's shared bills with Zac Brown, Dick Dale, Avett Bros, Old Crow Medicine Show. His music is self-described as "Good Country Gone Terribly, Terribly Bad." ... more
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