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My "bonus" song for the week. A very quickly-written tune that combines "Choctaw Bingo" and Tom Waits influences. I kind of like the story line and the lyrical style that I've begun here, but there's clearly a lot more to the story. If I continue working with this, I'll need to provide a little more meat to the melodies and write a whole lot more lyrics. Might revisit it, though; we'll see ...

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they came from the hills back in ’49
with a little baby boy, drunk on altar wine
with a rattle and a snake and a stick-pin dart
they always said that boy had a crossed-up heart
if his daddy saw him smile he’d have beat him real good
so he ran away to Georgia and a white-cross hood
broke a working girl neath the attic fan
took her to the church in a green sedan

I could take or leave what your daddy done said
but you didn’t shed a tear when they
pronounced him dead
your momma ain’t the same
she won’t leave the bed
but your sister turned tail and ran
in a green sedan

I met you in the morning at the Indian casino
with a vial of ketamine and a stolen Filipino
dealing jacks to the suckers with the watered-down gin
there was venom in your fingers and the ink on your skin
don’t know what it was made you catch me eye
but there was plenty evidence make a clean man fry
I was lost, I was bait for your secret plans
we were rolling in the back of that green sedan

I could take or leave what your daddy said
but you didn’t shed a tear when they
pronounced him dead
your momma ain’t the same
she won’t leave the bed
but your sister turned tail and ran
in a green sedan

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from Round 10, Week 7​-​8 (Song 4), released March 14, 2016

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