Songs:Flycatcher Jack And The Whipporwill's Song (88870)
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Flycatcher Jack And The Whippoorwill's Song by Kevin Welch The wind is warm as mother’s milk and steady as a siren Though my whiskers smell of soap, my pistol smells of iron This front porch is higher than the rest of this poor town I piss every day away and watch the sun go down If I was a gambling man the way I used to be Those downtown gals would gather 'round just to watch the likes of me Them lazy bones would tumble, yeah those lazy bones would roll And I’d pick out my downtown gal and give her all my gold Chorus: Hey, hey whippoorwill sings All kind of foolish things All I know's if I had wings I’d be gone by now Once a year this old hotel fills up at harvest time Mexicans and gypsy kids, they’re mostly friends of mine They all come in at sundown, fill my whisky glass Sit and sing a song or two and let the evening pass In the old days I’d work with them, till the work was done The crew I had back in those days was always number one Northward with the season, southbound in the fall Till I got hurt in the oil patch, man I had it all Chorus But this year we had no rain at all, not a single crop came in And nothing moves on Main street now but an Oklahoma wind I am just a shadow of the man I used to be I wish I had someone to sing the Long Black Veil with me Hey, hey whippoorwill sings All kind of crazy things All I know is if I had wings I'd be gone by now Kevin Welch: vocal, guitar Kieran Kane: octave mandolin, drum, brush Fats Kaplin: dan electro guitar Claudia Scott: harmony vocal
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