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Intro/Oh Susanna
01:32
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The West
04:23
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I spent the summer out west
Packed a bag and a guitar and it was on my way I went
Had some faces that I longed to see
They can't always come to me
Meanwhile I enjoyed some scenery
So I bought my ticket and I found a train to ride
Friends and family I love them more when they're in sight
I spent the summer out west
Gettin' restless is just what I do my best
Stuck around the place I've lived too long
I love the people here but they already know my song
So I bought my ticket and I found a train to ride
Friends and family I love them more when they're in sight
I spent the summer out west
I missed it all too much to not visit again
I could sit around awhile and stay
Stayin's gotta end sometime but it's just fine that way
So I bought my ticket and I hopped a train to ride
Friends and family I love them more when they're in sight
So I hocked my ticket and I hopped a train to ride
Everyone I know I love them more when they're in sight
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3. |
Desperate Thing
03:06
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4. |
Vice/Device
03:18
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One for Jo (Bert Jansch)
03:02
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6. |
Slow Down
03:06
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7. |
New American Royalty
03:35
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New American Royalty
Poor as far as the eye can see
Living as a refugee
Native-born and clandestine
Old American Royalty
Born and bred in a major key
Dissonance is unbecoming
And the dissidents are coming for me
New American Royalty
Has no skills except for spending
Get a job to pay for things
No money left for eating
Old American Royalty
Has no skills except for spending
Went and bought up all the things
Nothing left for the new royalty
Old American Royalty
Made me wanna be royal too
Living as if I am king
Native-born, entitled to a way of live
We cannot afford
(Well neither can you)
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Well I'd almost forgotten, but I'm not ready to forgive
That all these people that you step on are just trying to live
Well you take everything, you take and you take
You can take all that I own, I'm not ready to break
'Cause you'd thought I'd forgotten, and I'm not even ready to forgive
Yeah we may not be kings but let's live like we think they should live
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8. |
Phaedrus
04:48
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9. |
Empty Town
02:06
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10. |
Trickster Stomp
03:59
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Sister Crow taught me this song
Before her voice is dead and gone
I asked her to sing just one more song
The one she chose was twenty miles long
(and it went)
Hoja (Joseph) sang this song last night
Had a horse for sale seems fine
A dollar for the horse he cried
Then fifty for the stick to drive
(And I said)
Brother coyot' sang this song
I swear he was a mile long
Sent it swimming out to shore
He lost most of it in a war
Now he holds his love so close
(Holds her every single night, singing)
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11. |
Painting
02:38
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12. |
Brothers
02:49
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One was tame, one was wild
Brothers Cain and Able style
But I was unable, I wasn't Able
And I sure as hell weren't Cain
Look so different in that picture
One is truth, one is fiction
Versions of each other, or
Versions of the truth
* Find yourself in the eyes of your brother
Find your face in the kind of another
(Look so different in that picture
One is truth, one is fiction)
One was tame, the other wild
Brothers Cain and Able style
But I wasn't Able and I wasn't Cain
Or my brother under a different name
One lived east, one lived west
Tattoos covered the others' chest
And one was drunk, the other stoned
But neither was himself anymore
*
(One lived east, one lived west
Tattoos covered the others' chest)
And one lived in peace, one lived in war
Neither knew what the hell the other did the other for
Different times, different conclusions
Different lives, different solutions
*
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14. |
Twilight
05:31
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Peter House Rochester, New York
From the Southern Tier to the North Country, Peter House sings about traveling, community, philosophers in fistfights and Pennsylvania, and calls it all "country songs" even though most of them are only vaguely of that genre. Now living in Rochester, NY. ... more
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