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Houdini Blues
04:38
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Ladies and gentlemen
Lookee what we got
Man, soul and spirit
Tied in some unholy knot
I got nothing up my sleeve
But my heart
Getting out of this
Is gonna take some art
If not for myself
I'd like to do it for you
Those amazing fantastical
Death defying
Houdini Blues
A canary in the coal mine
Just managing to sing
Like a marionette
Shaking off my strings
Feeling upside down
Inside out
All I can do
To keep from shouting
Hey everybody
Maybe you got them too
Those amazing fantastical
Death defying
Houdini Blues
Man vs man
Man vs himself
Man vs his environment
And everything else
Doing it by the book
Doing it outta the box
Doing it for a mile
In each other's socks
How Can I get out of this
I can't get out even of my shoes
I got those amazing fantastical
Death defying
Houdini Blues
It's a death defying gamble
Just leaving my yard
Playing a grim game
Against the King of Cards
Hang man hanging ten
Since the deck is stacked
Have to do it with one eye
Tied behind my back
Prepare to be
Mystified too
With those amazing fantastical
Death defying
Houdini Blues
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2. |
Sister Anne
05:50
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Sister Anne hand me down your glad rags for change
Day's been long you keep on scrapping just the same
Thanks a lot for coming my way
You're my saving grace even if I can't pay
Let me walk with you come and take my hand
I want to go your way while I can
You always show me a thing or two
It all seems better even if it ain't nothing new
It takes more than style to get you through the day
Noone pays attention 'til you give it away
All that they deserve well it may be broken
Sister Anne my door's always open
It may be second hand but it's still the news
You don't ever know what you may use
Just take a minute from what you planned
And you can pass on the second hand
You're gonna go far yes I know
I just hope it's where you wanna go
You don't have to count the miles if you didn't know
Sister Anne she told me so
It takes more than style to get you through the day
Noone pays attention 'til you give it away
All that they deserve well it may be broken
Sister Anne my door's always open
you got an eye for the ladies man give me a hand
That's okay I guess I understand
I can do it myself when it gets right down to it
Sister Anne I'll always see you through it
You know I'll always see you through it
Sister Anne let me see you through
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3. |
Turn of the Century
04:45
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Just around the corner where the chateau used to be
The brand new clock doesn't keep the time
There is an automatic money machine
It's just around the corner where we all used to meet
You might not recognize it now but nothing has changed just the scenery
Take your time and pass it on pass it on
It's all yours and it won't be long
Just around the corner form the same old used to be
In your life time gonna see your turn
Turn of the century
Take your time and pass it on pass it on
It's all yours and it won't be long
Just around the corner form the same old used to be
In your life time gonna see your turn
Turn of the century
Just around the corner right from where you are
Make some change and a helping hand
About as rare as a 10 cent cigar
Just around the corner tell me what's next
The way things are shaping up
Looks like this puppet shows' gong wireless
Take your time and pass it on pass it on
It's all yours and it won't be long
Just around the corner form the same old used to be
In your life time gonna see your turn
Turn of the century
Just around the corner haven't we got there yet
I can see the salvation army band and a marching suffragette
It's just around the corner can't you hear the music play
Some things change but some things always stay the same
Can't say where we're heading but it reminds me of where we been
Up around the corner like nothing you've ever seen
Looking back it all makes sense running on a false pretense
In the long run all you've learned it's time to come and take your turn
Take your time and pass it on pass it on
It's all yours and it won't be long
Just around the corner form the same old used to be
In your life time gonna see your turn
Turn of the century
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4. |
Down Below Blues
04:15
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My daddy was meek before me and some day it'll be all mine
I never did get it in writing but that's just fine
I never did understand it but he said it real good
And noone ever made him repeat it in the whole neighbourhood
Well he stood pretty tall and seemed taller any time I'd disagree
And there wasn't much even mama could do when it cme to him and me
Oh Mama put a good word in if you get There before me
'cause if the Man Upstairs is like the man I know
I'm better off going Down Below
I'm better off Down Below
Well if it hurt him more than it hurt me he handled it pretty well
And I guess I learned my lesson but what it was I still can't tell
The School of Hard Knocks ought to be shut down where the old man got his diploma
And the graduating class and the graduating class should be compensated when they get out of their coma
It wasn't so much religion made him holler out 'Christ All Mighty'
Mama wouldn't stand for that too much but it put the Fear of God right in me
Oh Mama put a good word in if you get There before me
'cause if the Man Upstairs is like the man I know
I'm better off going Down Below
I'm better off Down Below
With a Hope in Hell he'd change his tune
If there was one he could carry
As God's my witness; any One you name
The good ones and the scary
I'll sing my song because of that old man
He put me in this World of Sin
Which he always kindly did point out
He could take me right out again
Take me right out again
Take me right out again
Oh Mama put a good word in if you get There before me
'cause if the Man Upstairs is like the man I know
I'm better off going Down Below
I'm better off Down Below
Oh Mama put a good word in if you get There before me
'cause if the Man Upstairs is like the man I know
I'm better off going Down Below
I'm better off Down Below
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5. |
C-Note Road
05:18
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On C-Note Road its cash on the dash
Keep one eye open and crash
Go all the way then go north of that
Got what you need right out back
C-Note Road on the edge of town
Pulling about four grand by the sound
Feel a one hundred cold
The golden rule is you oughta know
On C-Note Road
Down on On C-Note Road
On C-Note Road you better see it coming
Only a second from a hundred to nothing
Making change a c note from a dime
If you got the parts you're just paying time
On On C-Note Road it's if you dare
The law's just a blind eye there
If you thought you looked good in trouble
Get off clean and you can make it double
On C-Note Road
Down on On C-Note Road
On C-Note Road you've gone too far
Just a piece from the old bone yard
Even money and the fix is in
You can make it yourself if you've been
C-Note Road just a wheel in a groove
Jacked up on back track avenue
Watch your six and lock your load
When you come down to C-Note Road
On C-Note Road
Down on On C-Note Road
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6. |
High Hat
03:18
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No money
And you get what you pay for
No money down
No money
And you get what you pay for
No money down
No money down
The money trickles down like water
The misery flows like wine
The money trickles down like water
The misery flows like wine
Don't tell me my water's wine
I don't need no high hat
To sing the do re mi
I don't need no high hat
To sing the do re mi
To sing the do re mi
I ain't got no do re mi
What's Jesus' what's Caesar's
Ain't there nothing neither
What's Jesus' what's Caesar's
Ain't there nothing neither
Ain't there nothing neither
What's for you and me here
The game called on account of darkness
And John Doe kept on pitching
The hounds are at your door
Inside you something's itching
Afraid that they might get you
And things best not to mention
No money
And you get what you pay for
No money down
No money
And you get what you pay for
No money down
No money down
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7. |
Lazy Bay
04:50
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Lazy Bay on a sunny day
The water still and dark
Lovely as a lady
She can break your heart
She can break your heart
A story sad yet untold
Untold but remembered
Remembered by She
By She who returned never
How chooses She Her company
Her company She keeps
She keeps and suffers sadly
Sadly her own grief
There's no sign of the fault
The fault that lies beneath
Lies beneath her mirror
Her mirror dark and deep
Lazy Bay on a sunny day
The water still and dark
Lovely as a lady
She can break your heart
She can break your heart
Who took me for a challenge
A challenge I am not
Am not I better left alone
Left alone unsought
These waters flow like time to me
To me they come then go
Then go less wildly than they came
They came though not alone
Time and soothing sorrow
Sorrow and for me
For me what then
What then I cannot see
Lazy Bay on a sunny day
The water still and dark
Lovely as a lady
She can break your heart
She can break your heart
Who took me for their pleasure
Their pleasure them decieved
Decieved them unto their doom
Their doom I did not weave
Remember them beyond
Them beyond all harm
All harm from the hands of men
Of men who failed to warn
Take this then a warning
A warning to convey
To convey Her doom
Her doom is there to stay
Lazy Bay on a sunny day
The water still and dark
Lovely as a lady
She can break your heart
She can break your heart
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8. |
Opeongo Breakdown
03:39
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Hard pat switchback
Blaze a track
Into the wild green yonder
Juniper gin
Glumgalleon
Pegged you as a goner
Heading like an arrow
To those sandy narrows
For a hundred acres of stone
Dr. Livingstoned I presume
Heading up the Opeongo
Wind up in Kilaloe
Ghost town saloon
Up the line marooned
And down the side of the moon
Dirty sock coffee pot
By the Madawaska
Was a good idea at the time
Pickaxe gunny sack
Good eating hard tack
On that government dime
Hog tight and horse high
White pine for sale sign
Opeongo timeshare
Dr. Livingstoned I presume
Heading up the Opeongo
Wind up in Kilaloe
Ghost town saloon
Up the line marooned
And down the side of the moon
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9. |
The Whiskey Trail
04:18
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Is this the whoop up trail or what the Hell?
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10. |
The Family Tree
04:51
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Well the old folks say they know her well
But she aint what she used to be
The kids dont give her the time of day
But she's got a history
And her neighbours thinks she oughta
Just do like they do
Call her daddy a gun boat diplomat
Say her relations all live in igloos
Candianna I'll watch out for you
That shotgun wedding in your family tree
Was bound to leave you blue
Canadianna no one knows you well
Her children say watch out for her
Oh the stories they could tell
She was somebody's mother once
But now you might not know
They say her kids came of age in the war
But they didnt all make it home
But all that's left is the in-laws
And half of them want out
Got the power of attorney
Said 'hey neighbours check this real estate out'
Candianna I'll watch out for you
That shotgun wedding in your family tree
Was bound to leave you blue
Canadianna no one knows you well
Her children say watch out for her
Oh the stories they could tell
Well she's got her reservations
But she'll take it up town too
Had to leave home just to make a name
But hey what can you do
If you look up her family
You tree see it goes back all the way
To her blind date with destiny
Left her at the altar said she weren't no lady
Candianna I'll watch out for you
That shotgun wedding in your family tree
Was bound to leave you blue
Canadianna no one knows you well
Her children say watch out for her
Oh the stories they could tell
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11. |
Ragweed Ruth
07:19
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Ragweed Ruth was unmowed maze
She was nightshade in the morning
Her ragged flag was often raised
But she raised it like a warning.
No mate had she but emptiness
No family filled her time
She sipped instead on bitterness
Just like it was sweet wine
Like it was sweet wine
She soothed her throat with emptiness
Just like it was sweet wine.
The best spread once found anywhere
Was left by her old man's leaving
But she farmed those fields like a fool at prayer
And watered them with dreaming.
Her hay was wind and wanderings
Shocked up by forked rakes
Her grain was threshed by thunderings
Her trees were tangled snakes
Trees were tangled snakes
Her grain was threshed by thunderings
Her trees were tangled snakes.
Each spring the farmers from around
Brought axes and advices
But Ruth would firmly glare them down
To forge her own devices.
For she was plenty to herself
She survived the seasons through
She was dark bread dipped in health
She was her own strong brew
Was her own strong brew
She was dark bread dipped in salty health
She was her own strong brew.
Then came the dry when the farming men
Failed and cracked and fled
Ruth invited all the families in
And somehow all were fed.
Plow never cleft her bottomland
Nor harrow stroked her sod
Still, golden ears and marzipan
Up sprung from where she trod
Sprung from where she trod
Golden ears and marzipan
Sprung up from where she trod.
The passing of her wandering walk
Could fill a tree with fruit
At her glare the shriveled stalk
Would straighten, stand and root.
The dry time passed as all times will.
Back to the crippled county
Returned the rain, the sprouts to till,
And seeming endless bounty.
The guests all gathered up and left
With their advice and axes…
Old Ruth ragdanced on to death
Her land was sold for taxes
Land was sold for taxes
Ragweed Ruth danced on to death
Her land was sold for taxes.
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12. |
Outrun the Rain
07:58
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It's a Hell of a way
And your intentions
Uphill and downhill
Not to mention
The wind in your face
The rain on your back
Try to win the race
On the beaten track
Is there any other way
From here to there
Than that lonesome road
I don't care
How long it takes
Something's got to give
There's no wasting time
As long as you live
It's out of my hands
All I meant
It's open season
Heaven sent
Even if I pay your way
Into the fair
You know it still might rain
While we're there
I guess you can't outrun the rain
For all your trying
I guess I'll say goodbye
For all the trying
It's such a little while
It's just another mile
That you can outrun the rain
For all your trying
Eyes on the horizon
Storm on your heels
Try to keep a step ahead
Spinning your wheels
Try to collect
On the dues you've paid
All you made in the shade
For one sunny day
So here we all stand
Soaked to the bone
Follow your heart
All the way home
You might as well dance
In the falling rain
Go lightly on the line
Between joy and pain
And when that day comes
Down the road
You pay at the gate
So I'm told
Tell the collector
I'm racing the wind
I may have lost
But I still may win
I guess you can't outrun the rain
For all your trying
I guess I'll say goodbye
For all the trying
It's such a little while
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Dave Muir New Brunswick
Dave Muir is a musical artist from Ottawa, currently based in Atlantic Canada. Dave has been crafting his unique style and sound since the early 80s performing in various blues, rock, roots, and acoustic groups. Inspired by the diverse stylings of a century of music making, he brings his humble and unassuming nature to song with the soul of a timeless storyteller, and the heart of a poet. ... more
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