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The Crawdad Song
03:00
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Laid Out Blues
03:45
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Laid Out Blues
I knew love, it was a comfort to me
I knew love, it was a comfort to me
Saved my like from being a tragedy
I never got to know you like you'd know a friend
I never got to know you like you'd know a friend
Maybe next time we'll know how to begin
If you see me laid out make sure you can see my face
If you see me laid out make sure you can see my face
See for me no hair's out of place
Remember me darlin' one day out of the year
Remember me darlin' one day out of the year
Remember me when you are all out of tears
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Can You Heart be Touched
Well I've been waiting for you to come around
Walking these streets all over town
Wonderin’ if you're ever gonna make up your mind
To love me baby or leave me behind.
Some people say you shouldn't wait too long
You've gotta make a move while the feeling is strong
I ain't trying to mess you up
I only want to know if your heart can be touched
I want more than memories I've had enough
I want to know can your heart be touched
Maybe it's too early to ask you all of this
Come on baby put yourself in your kiss
You say you can't help think it's all a game
Well let me tell you baby I don't feel that way
I want more than memories I've had enough
I want to know can your heart be touched
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4. |
You Married Men
02:57
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You Married Men
Well she got mixed up with a married man
She was crazy 'bout him but she didn't understand
When he said he liked the married life
And he felt shook up cause he loved his wife.
He used to meet her at the oddest times
In the weirdest places for lover's crimes
It was thrillingly romantic till they felt the despair
That came from knowing it could go nowhere.
And it came as no surprise the night
She left him with tears in her eyes
She said you married men are so dedicated
But you make your lives so complicated
You Married Men
And it came as no surprise the night
She left him with tears in her eyes
She said you married men are so dedicated
But you make your lives so complicated.
She made him promise to be her friend
But their days as lovers had to end
It was so much easier said than done
No matter what she said, she knew he was the one.
He said she'd always be his fantasy and
He'd never forget the girl he ran to see
But he felt like a fool for being untrue
It was something he never thought he could do.
And it came as no surprise the night
She left him with tears in her eyes
She said you married men are so dedicated
But you make your lives so complicated.
When she left town she never said a word
She wondered how he felt when he finally heard
Did he think of her in the middle of the night
Could he forget her now that she was out of sight?
He went back to how things were and
Eventually he told his wife about her
But sometimes he sees her in the back of his mind
And closes his eyes as if love were blind
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5. |
You Mother's Dog
02:38
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Your Mother's Dog
©2017 JTSMusicSESAC
It was a year ago today
You ran out of my life
You did not even stop
To say goodbye
As bitter as a biscuit
Soaking up the yellow snow
Folks thought it was funny
That I was the last to know
You won't hear no barking
No howling No screeching tonight
Up at the late night moon
And for all those nasty things you said
And for kicking me out of bed
You've been forgiven
Though your mother's dog is dead
Well I will not say that I was not hurt
And you know I was there right till the end. And you know I won't pretend
With all my tear stained letters signed
Your best friend
Days got dark and then got darker
I drank myself a pack of lies
One of those being that some but not
All dogs can fly
Some people think I did it for fun
Some people think and your mom is one
Who think I could've dialed back
On what I'd done
But me and her we're OK now
I see her bout three or four times a year
I even trained her monkey
To fetch us beer
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6. |
Suzette
02:44
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SUZETTE
Suzette, you're like a cigarette
You take my breath
And your dangerous
You keep me in your pocket
Right over your breast
You ride me like a jet
Then you say you need a rest
Your diamond spiked heels
And your phony accent
Used to give me the chills
I thought I knew what it meant
You kept me up,
you never let me down
You just kind lost touch, disappeared
I never knew where you went
Suzette, you were so desperate
I remember you best
watching the sunsets Fade
Suzette are you ready yet?
Suzette, do you remember that place
Where we used to live
So long ago
Now there's hardly any trace
People ask about you,
they wonder where you are
And some people swear it's you on tv
Trying to be a singing star
Suzette, you were so desperate
I remember you best
watching the sunsets Fade
Suzette are you ready yet?
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7. |
Girl Friend
03:46
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MY GIRL FRIEND
I remember on your wedding day
the sun came out in the clouds went away
steam was rising up from the ground
like memories escape left unfound
Oh my girl friend
My girl friend
At the reception I met them all
Your father your mother and your brothers in law
I told your mom something didn't feel right
She said son please just be quiet
Oh my girl friend
My girl friend
Years ago when we were friends
after school and on weekends
So much together that people thought
We were but I said no we're not
She's just my girl friend
My girl friend
Now the years have passed through
Our lives like wind
And our memories fade
Before they end
Oh my girl friend
My girl friend
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8. |
Lucky Boy
02:34
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Lucky Boy
Honeysuckle's sweet and so are you
If you were me you'd say the same thing to
Life is a pleasure and living is a joy
You make me feel like a lucky boy
Lucky boy a lucky boy
The whole world's a marble
It's my spinning toy
Lucky boy lucky boy
You make feel like a lucky boy
I have heard that love is the key
Sometimes I think in might work for me
Life is a pleasure living is a joy
You make me feel like a lucky boy
Lucky boy a lucky boy
The whole world's a marble
It's my spinning toy
Lucky boy lucky boy
You make feel like a lucky boy
Now when I was down and my luck wouldn't hold
I thought the world was mean and cold
Life is a pleasure living is a joy
You make me feel like a lucky boy
Lucky boy lucky boy
Life is a pleasure living is a joy
You are my treasure I'm a lucky boy
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9. |
About Your Talk
03:35
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About Your Talk
Your words come easy
But you make it so hard
To believe the stories
You turn into art
You get so tangled I your twisted plots
Your motor's always running
And you just can't stop
There's always someone
You want to impress
You think if it's worked once
You've cast your nets
And the ones your thought were fools
Are lining up
Even your entourage
Has had enough
Everybody's talking' about your talk
And the way you act like it's not your fault
The way you rattle like a big dumb doll
Everybody's talking about your talk
I used to laugh at it
Like it was a bad joke
But it kept getting worse
Every word was an ego stroke
Now you're so puffed up
With your own deceit
People avoid you just for relief
Everybody's talking' about your talk
And the way you act like it's not your fault
The way you rattle like a big dumb doll
Everybody's talking about your talk
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10. |
If I Were The Devil Dear
04:20
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If I Were the Devil Dear
w&m JSmith 2014
If I were the devil and I
Saw you comin'
I'd head for the hills
Just to keep you runnin’
That's what I'd do if I were
The devil dear
I would tell you that Life’s a breeze
And I’d always be there
You could count on me
And that's what I'd do if I were the devil dear
If I were the devil I would not be lazy
I'd give you punctuation just to make you all crazy
I'd tempt Eve until she
Bit the fruit
Adam from that day on
Would have to wear a suit
And that's what I'd do if I were the devil dear
I'd make you question and
Fight amongst yourselves
Steal your faith and give you
Fairies and elves
And that's what I'd do if I were the devil dear
I'd give you colors
No one's ever seen
No one would talk
Everybody would scream
You'd have longer wars
That made no sense
Reality TV
And no moral fence
I’d give you presidential Candidates
That ran on fear And promoted hate
And that's what I'd do if I were the devil dear
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11. |
Your Light Don't Shine
01:48
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Your Light Don't shine
You say your light don't shine
The way it used to do
But I had no trouble darlin'
When I was looking for you
Say you want to write a book
Call it everything hurts
Well you know it never gets better
Till it's been a lot worse
Now everybody knows
where you go last night
Now you come home darlin'
And you want to start a fight
She was singing love songs
On my guitar
To her new boyfriend
In the back of my car
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Jeff Smith Virginia
Inspired and influenced by early country, blues, rock and pop
Jeff Smith writes songs and tells elongated and elliptical
stories about them. Jeff's Appalachian drawl slides in and around his guitar playing and Smith says “on a good night the stories and songs swing on top of a funky kind of country blues pop stomp”. Now residing in the swamps of Virginia, Smith performs club gigs and
concerts.
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