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  • Song Lyrics,  Songs,  Southern Amusement 1928

    Pastoral Insomnia
    (Previously titled: Broken Lullaby)

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    Where on Earth is my little sheep-counter now? I haven’t slept in countless hours. She said, “Now, one, two baby, for you, and three, four, here comes a couple more.”

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  • Song Lyrics,  Songs,  Southern Amusement 1928,  Wildroot 360

    P-Farm Girl

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    Saw an angel in an orange vest on the shoulder of the road her diamond eyes they sparkled and her raven hair it flowed I went on up to tell her though I…

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  • Song Lyrics,  Songs,  Southern Amusement 1928,  Wildroot 360

    Rosebud Matches

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    Gonna tell you one time, pretty baby Just so you c’ain’t say you ain’t been told Coming through your room just like Boo Radley Bustin’ up your chifforobe You keep coming back to…

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  • Song Lyrics,  Songs,  Southern Amusement 1928,  Wildroot 360

    Retablo

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    Thursday last I was down in the bottom of a well in a faithless town, face down I had a 40 foot head start on gettin’ to hell but you were there, I…

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  • Songs,  Southern Amusement 1928

    Middle Distance

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    All the stream that pulls me in is there and gone again All the plans to make you mine, the unrest all down the line Least I’m consistent Is there something out there…

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  • Songs,  Southern Amusement 1928,  Wildroot 360

    Can’t Do Nuthin’ ‘Bout That Now (Let’s Get Tore Up) (The Walmart Song )

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    Well your daddy he won't own you And he's cast you out to wander ‘neath the stars It all may be comin’ back to haunt you And you've already swum among the bars…

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  • 2001,  Ducking Francine,  Song Lyrics,  Songs,  Southern Amusement 1928,  Wildroot 360

    You Got Somebody

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    You got somebody Washing your forks and your spoons You got somebody curlin’ them curls You’re just like $10,000 laying out on a plate And I’m just a poor little boy from down…

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  • 2001,  Ducking Francine,  Song Lyrics,  Songs,  Southern Amusement 1928,  Wildroot 360

    Southern Amusement

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    Had a girl the name of Evelyn Newman Her house was strict but her camellias Was steady blooming, Georgia blooming She had me dying, but I was trying not to look it My…

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  • 2001,  Ducking Francine,  Song Lyrics,  Songs,  Southern Amusement 1928,  Wildroot 360

    Bachelor’s Showplace

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    Well the note read, “you’re leaving town You’ll be sleeping at your momma’s When the sun goes down” And the right words were all she chose They were just some simple thoughts But…

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  • 2001,  Ducking Francine,  Song Lyrics,  Songs,  Wildroot 360

    Dixie Lanehart

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    Well I was thinking about giving up on folk art And smoking smokes like Humphrey Bogart I thought about putting my French in Action On a more manageable attraction But Dixie Laneheart I…

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  • 2001,  Ducking Francine,  Song Lyrics,  Songs,  Southern Amusement 1928,  Wildroot 360

    Ducking Francine

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    Some dinner plates broke the sun awoke a waitress in a flowered apron walked into the scene She was spoken for I held the door, the radio played Charles Aznavour It was surreal…

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  • All Poems,  Haiku, Senryu & other shorts,  Published on Instagram

    just to vanish

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    just to vanish into the varnish overnight --December 6, 2019

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  • All Poems,  Haiku, Senryu & other shorts,  Published on Instagram

    nightfalling–

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    nightfalling-- the wind in the black trees --December 3, 2019

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  • All Poems,  Haiku, Senryu & other shorts,  Published on Instagram

    rain falling on the roof

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    rain falling on the roof I’m so thankful --November 28, 2019

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  • All Poems,  Haiku, Senryu & other shorts,  Published on Instagram

    I Went West

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    So, I went West one last time with $1000, a silver horse, and a borrowed pistol. I hope the horse makes it. I borrowed the pistol for looks. --November 27, 2019

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  • All Poems,  Published on Instagram

    How Houdini Died

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    Lotta, lotta misconceptions about how old Harry Houdini died. There’s the story about him getting punched in the gut by a football player and dying of a ruptured appendix. Some people think he…

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  • All Poems,  Haiku, Senryu & other shorts,  Published on Instagram

    winded–

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    winded-- the oak tree makes its own gate --November 10, 2019

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  • All Poems,  Published on Instagram

    My Novel

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    You should really read my unfinished, barely started, first novel. you can finish it in one sitting. Hell, you can finish it in one standing. You won’t be able to put it down.

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  • All Poems,  Haiku, Senryu & other shorts,  Published on Instagram

    Delivery

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    Yes, m’am, send us your address. We can have anything you want over to you in fifteen minutes or less. No, m’am. The things you need

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  • All Poems,  Haiku, Senryu & other shorts,  Published on Instagram

    virtue is its own reward–

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    virtue is its own reward-- noble prize --November 8, 2019

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