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Bloody Gasoline
02:59
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We’re heading out of country, heading out today
The way that TV’s flickering, someone’s gonna pay
There’s a curve to those words and you know there’s something sitting in between
So give it all to Exxon.. it’s the bloody gasoline
You say that ain’t right, this here’s black and white
That side’s bad so we gonna bomb those suckers out of sight
Hey don’t worry ‘bout them children waking up to this American scream
Just give it all to Chevron.. it’s the bloody gasoline
We’re heading out of country, heading out today
The way that TV’s flickering, Lord someone’s gonna pay
I’m pretty sure that OPEC would bomb Europe if they could do it without being seen (too Green)
So give it all to Exxon
Or give it all to Chevron
Or give it all to Mobil
Or give it all to BP
It’s the bloody gasoline..
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Lily White
03:41
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Got no real problems, but all the same
I somehow find time to complain
So soft and lazy, I waste my time
I sit here fuming, I bitch online
Got no real problems, that’s sure as night
Got no real problems, no real problems
I’m lily white..
They never stop me, when I’m new in town
They never frisk me, I’m not black or brown
I got that privilege, came with my skin
I’m first in line here, I’ll always win
Got no real problems, I got no fright
Got no real problems, no real problems
I’m lily white..
And If I don’t like it, I’ll change the rules
Just draw up new lines, I’ll vote for fools
And I’ll run you over if you make a stand
I’ll run my pipeline through native lands
And wave that flag Lord like some birthright
Got no real problems, no real problems…I’m lily white..
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Tell Me Mama
02:12
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Tell me mama
Can you show me everything I’ll need
When I go walking out your doorway?
Tell me papa
Could you just believe I’ll be alright
If I keep doing those things my way?
I won’t fall down
Get turned around
Won’t let you down
I’ve been around
Tell me teacher
Can you teach me everything I’ll need
When I go running down that highway?
Tell me preacher
Can you show me everything I need
When I’m alone down in the valley?
I won’t fall down
Get turned around
Won’t let you down
I’ve been around
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Anything
03:16
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Hope you find what you need
You know it’s not guaranteed
Hope you don’t take too long
But I hope you find what you need
I would do anything
I would do anything
If you’d just stay with me..
Never know what you’ll find
Leaving it all behind
Hope you find something there
Hoping you’ll always care
I would do anything
I would do anything
If you’d just stay with me..
Hope you don’t get too lost
Hope you don’t pay the cost
The timing’s not always right
Thinking ‘bout you tonight
I would do anything
I would do anything
If you’d just talk to me..
Hope you hear all your songs
Maybe you’ll hum along
Hope you don’t take them wrong
But I hope you hear all your songs
I would do anything
I would do anything
If you ever needed me..
If you ever needed me..
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Downtown
04:03
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When you’re downtown
Hiding out
And the hot sun is all done
When you’re down…town
On the sidewalks, you don’t talk
To the girls on the streets
The walking meats
When you’re down…
When you’re unseen
In a fever dream
And there’s no change
For you today
When you’re down…
When the cardboard
Is tonight’s bed
And you can’t calm your own head
When you’re down…
When you’re downtown
Hiding out
And the hot sun is all done
When you’re down…town
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Long Goodbye
02:54
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Two hours and I’m drinking, I could not find my phone
I’m sorry, I’ve taken us too far out now to get back home
But it’s so pretty out here after midnight below these bourbon skies
Feel it coming, please take me there gently into our long goodbye
Where’s our house, where’s our child, where’s that yard, where’s our little picket fence?
When I’m gone, and you’re there all alone, do you notice the difference?
I come home late, Lord I sleep all day long and you’re never touchin’ me
Could you deny as you look past my eye that we’re half of what we used to be?
And I’m still on these county roads, looking for faces and stories untold
I know you may never understand that I’ll never go back again
Come Monday and I’m lonely, our cupboards cleaned out bare
I can smell you in the bedroom, pretend that I don’t care
But it’s so pretty out here after midnight below these bourbon skies
Feel it coming, please take me there gently into our long goodbye..
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No Place For Me
03:29
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So I been waiting for too long
I’m sorry darling but my heart’s already gone
It’s no one’s fault dear, it’s like the rain
When love comes calling we never know why it came
And I been drinking too much, I been thinking too much
And Lord knows that in my head is no place to be
And I been smoking too much, I been missing your touch
And we both know that your bed is no place for me
No place for me
Yeah it’s been a while since I’ve seen that golden smile of yours
I’ve been missing you and you’re here in the room
We’re so settled now that it hardly takes a word
To know what’s going on, so what’s going on?
Let’s go dancing, I swear that I will too
I’d be proud to look like a fool for you
Some more romancing, just like we used to do
Let’s pretend that it’s the night we both first knew
But I been waiting for too long
I’m sorry darling but my heart’s already gone
It’s no one’s fault dear, it’s like the rain
When love comes calling we never know why it came
And I’ll be drinking too much, I’ll be thinking too much
And Lord knows that in my head is no place to be
And I’ll be smoking too much, I’ll be missing your touch
We both know that your bed is no place for me
No place for me..
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Down To Country
04:12
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Take that highway on out to Main street, until you reach the corner store
Keep on going until the gravel rolls away, and that road won’t go no more
See that cat out on the back porch, see the dog there on the lawn
Let that bullfrog serenade you off to sleep, and hear that rooster crow at dawn
Let’s go down to the country, let’s go down to the farm
Meet me down near the hayloft, in the barn
And you won’t come to any harm
So take that highway on out to Main street, leave that neon far behind
It gets so quiet, you can feel yourself believe, that you don’t need those city signs
Let’s go down to the country, let’s go down to the farm
Meet me down near the hayloft, in the barn
And you won’t come to any harm
No you won’t come to any harm
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Baby
03:18
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Here comes my baby. Here comes my girl. She somehow saves me. Lightens up my world.
Can’t remember when I let go. All I know is I let go. And here comes my baby. With all those things that I don’t know.
When she smiles Lord I lose my head. Laughs so loud she could wake the dead. Once you’ve heard her you’ll never forget. And she’s all I need.
And I’ll always love my hometown. And all those friends that carried me. But here comes my baby. And she don’t sing those minor keys.
When she smiles Lord I lose my head. Laughs so loud she could wake the dead. Once you’ve heard her you’ll never forget. And she’s all I need.
So here’s one for my baby. Here’s one for my girl. She somehow saves me. Lightens up my world. Lightens up my world..
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Pretty On The Inside
03:51
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I know a girl named Mae Mae
Pretty as a Hello Kitty doll
I know a girl named Mae Mae
Makes her mama Jane smile
Pity that they’re only three years old
for a little while
I know a girl named Bella
Sweetest smile you’ve ever seen
I know a girl named Bella
Breaking hearts in Muscatine
But this old town won’t hold her
She’s gonna be a fashion queen
I know a girl named Ulla
Makes her mama Winnie smile
I know a girl named Ulla
Poor boys won’t know what to do
But they don’t know like I know
That she’s pretty on the inside too
Yeah they don’t know like I know
That they’re pretty on the inside too..
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Love Her So
03:18
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Oh I love her so
Yes I love her so
Ask me why, I can’t explain it, I won’t know
But I love her so
She don’t ever slow down
She loves that old country sound
And she holds me all night long
And she tells me when I’m wrong
She don’t care for my sad spiteful songs
But she holds me all night long
And she never takes her time
And she can’t stand waiting in line
Try to hurry her along, she won’t go
Oh I love her so
She don’t ever slow down
She loves that old country sound
Yeah I love her so
Oh I love her so
Ask me why, I can’t explain it, I don’t know
But I love her so
Yes I love her so
Yes I love her so
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12. |
Call My Mom
02:59
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I should call my Mom, cuz it’s been too long
Now that I’m all grown, I don’t get back home
But she loves me still, cuz she knows I’m ill
I got that fever for thrills and crawling up long hills
Didn’t come from much, but there was more than enough
We had shoes on our feet, we had food to eat
It came from our ground, with lots of family around
Mama’s dinner call was the sweetest sound
Now the time just goes, it used to move so slow
Summer would last so long, it’d drag on and on
Yeah I should call my Mom, cuz it’s been too long
Now that I’m all grown I still miss my home..
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Kelly Pardekooper Connecticut
My songs/voice work in 40+ films/TV shows. Iowa City native. “A roots musician who writes some of the sweetest, blues-infused, country-fied, American rock music of our time ”
-No Depression
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