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7 Responses to “Honest Tunes 7-24-2007 A Pile of Smoking Leather”

1. Natural State Says:
   July 24th, 2007

   

2. Meyer Lansky Says:
   July 24th, 2007

   DGold:

   Looking forward to listening tonight. Are you still honoring requests and spreadication?

   peace,

   mL

3. Meyer Lansky Says:
   July 24th, 2007

   The Avett Brothers is what I would have requested. Plus you’ve played Panic and no we were Mississippi Half-Step, by the GD.

4. jackstrawfromtn Says:
   July 24th, 2007

   nice setlist 2nite DGold -

5. Arkansas Says:
   July 25th, 2007

   Let’s Get Down To Business (Vic Chesnutt/ brute)

   Let’s Get Down To Business shall we?
   It’s time we stop playing stop playing games,
   Let’s Get Down To Business shall we?
   Let’s quit with this lame pretense
   And tackle this what shackles us all of this pressing business.

   Well, why didn’t you tell me that things had gotten this bad?
   I was off in my own little world
   And I couldn’t see
   Through your taichi
   That I was being so sad

   Well, why didn’t you tell me that things were falling apart
   I was off in my own little world
   And didn’t discern
   Your slow burn
   Amidst all these fluttering hearts

   Let’s Get Down To Business shall we?
   It’s time we stop playing stop playing games,
   Let’s Get Down To Business shall we?
   Let’s quit with this lame pretense
   And tackle this what shackles us all of this pressing business.

   She Drives Me To Drink (Michael Houser)
   Transcription taken from Supercat Records Sandbox Lyrics Page

   We like to go out at eight
   We can’t stay out late
   ’Cause my baby, she works
   We head on down to
   The Barmuda Triangle
   And the Nowhere Bar

   She has a glass of wine
   And I have a good time
   She nurses hers and I doctor mine
   Round ten is when we begin
   To turn into pumpkins
   She says “I’ll drive”

   See she drives me to drink and I
   Drive her to work
   And then I go on back to bed
   And think of what I’m gonna drink
   When I get up

   When that alarm clock rings
   I begin to sing
   A sad sad song
   I jump into the shower then
   And I’m wishing
   I had a bar of that Zest

   She works along way away
   So I’ve got a tape
   Of inspirational music
   When I drop her at the gate
   She says “don’t you be late”
   She knows I won’t

   When I get home again
   I watch the CNN
   Three times around
   I crawl on back in bed
   And I’m thinking about a Crown
   See, I dream in red white and blue
   And so do some of you
   From the research I have done

   So, if you will take my advice
   You’ll go and find her
   You’ll know the one

6. Annotated Mississippi Half-Step Says:
   July 25th, 2007

   version from 5-7-1977 Boston Gardens, drippin’ with sickies and pure Jerry love, played on the radio show tonight
   

   transcript from the awesome, Annotated Grateful Dead lyrics site

   “Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo”
   Words by Robert Hunter; music by Jerry Garcia

   On the day that I was born
   Daddy sat down and cried
   I had the mark just as plain as day
   which could not be denied
   They say that Cain caught Abel
   rolling loaded dice,
   ace of spades behind his ear
   and him not thinking twice

   Half-step
   Mississippi Uptown Toodleloo
   Hello baby, I’m gone, goodbye
   Half a cup of rock and rye
   Farewell to you old southern sky
   I’m on my way - on my way

   If all you got to live for
   is what you left behind
   get yourself a powder charge
   and seal that silver mine
   I lost my boots in transit babe
   A pile of smoking leather
   Nailed a retread to my feet
   and prayed for better weather

   Half-step
   Mississippi Uptown Toodleloo
   Hello, baby, I’m gone, good-bye
   Half a cup of rock and rye
   Farewell to you old southern sky
   I’m on my way - on my way
   
   They say that when your ship comes in
   the first man takes the sails
   The second takes the afterdeck
   The third the planks and rails
   What’s the point to callin shots?
   This cue ain’t straight in line
   Cueball’s made of styrofoam
   and no one’s got the time

   Half-step
   Mississippi Uptown Toodleloo
   Hello baby, I’m gone, goodbye
   Half a cup of rock and rye
   Farewell to you old southern sky
   I’m on my way - on my way

   Across the Rio Grand-eo
   Across the lazy river
   Across the Rio Grand-eo
   Across the lazy river

7. Shocked! Says:
   July 25th, 2007

   Michelle Shocked: Over The Waterfall
   Arkansas Traveler (Mercury 1992) / Arkansas Traveler (Mighty Sound 2004)
   
   I thought I knew what I was doing
   I was wrong
   Mistakes I’ve made and lived to tell
   I tell them in a song

   I knew a river wide and deep
   Her banks were very tall
   At one end was a mountain stream
   The other was a waterfall, boys
   The other was a waterfall

   I asked the old man by the river
   He did not recall
   The last attempt to ride a barrel
   Over the waterfall

   The ferry boatman, he did tell me
   That the chance was very small
   None survived who went alive
   Over the waterfall, boys
   Over the waterfall

   So I built myself an oaken barrel
   And inside I did crawl
   I broke the record but I broke my back
   Going over the waterfall

   And now it’s been my luck to live to tell
   The only tale I can:
   It don’t hurt you when you fall
   Only when you land, boys
   Only when you land

   

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