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Down In The Mud
04:05
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Down In The Mud c Chuck LeMonds 2007
I ain’t seen you for weeks on end babe
You don’t call me
I don’t know how to reach you anymore
I’m trying all I can
If you get this telegram I send
Do not hesitate
Put on something that makes you feel good
And meet me at the lake
And we’ll go,
Down in the mud
Down in the mud
This could be our last refuge
Down in the mud
Down in the mud
No one can take the place of you.
Now if you get this message
You’ll know that I’ve been true
I’ve got your picture on my wall at home
And in my big Buick too
I didn’t go to the graveyard
Can’t believe half of what they say
They must be jealous of what we have
To say you’re laying in your grave
I’m waiting for your call babe
I’m waiting for some sign
People nod and shake their heads
As if I’d lost my mind
My bags are packed and ready
Took the money that we’d saved
Polished up the Buick
And soon we’ll be on our way.
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All The Reasons
04:14
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All The Reasons c Chuck LeMonds 2007
Pack up the boxes and a suitcase
take the pictures from the wall
quit collecting books a long time ago
though I love them, I can’t carry them all.
All the people I have known and loved
and left somewhere standing in my wake
this could have been my home forever
had it not been for a twist of fate.
Everybody’s got their reason
why they do the things they do
some are chasing illusions
some go running to you.
Someday, I’ll never say good-bye again
and on that day, I won’t feel sad and blue
I won’t have to wave from a distance
my heart won’t break in two.
Everybody’s got their reason
why they do the things they do
some are chasing illusions
some go running to you
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Iowa
04:01
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Iowa c Chuck LeMonds 2006
I’m a boy from Iowa, a long ways from home
I got mixed up in a crazy world, like so many I know
World of high finance, juggling resources can cost nerves
Sometimes I wish I’d just stayed put like Denny, Greg and Bear did.
Growing up on the river, is a world all it’s own
A thousand years of grace at the first sight of the sun
Birds flying south and butterfly’s too
I watched you all those years and then I followed you.
And it’s a long way to Iowa,
It’s a long way, from over here
It’s a long way to Iowa
It’s a long way, after all these years.
My daughters growing slowly, but the time is going fast
And I don’t have dreams no more that keep me on one path
It’s enough if I can pay the bills at the end of every month
Sometimes it makes me wonder how people can afford so much stuff.
Chorus
I paint the town red, every now and again
But the city takes no notice, because it’s just way to big
I got a good feeling, that things will go my way
I saw it in the cards and the coins I toss each day.
Chorus
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4. |
When Things Go Right
03:41
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Instrumental
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5. |
Drone of A Motor
07:25
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Drone of a Motor c Chuck LeMonds 2006
The drone of a motor
Travelling across the Ionian Sea at night
Like a chant from the bearded monks
Wearing grey robes in the mid-day sun.
It’s the heart of loneliness
The heart of all hearts
A call to remember the dead
To remember what’s been lost.
It’s my loneliness, which is sometimes lost
In every day turning
Just a man, listening to the wind
The waves and a sound in the night.
Mourning all that wasn’t done
Mourning all that was
But what will never be touched again
Or smelled and tasted.
All the monuments to mankind
Can not stop the tears
All the monuments to mankind
Can not end the fear
All the monuments to mankind
Can not slow the years
All the monuments to mankind
Can not bring you here.
To learn to love without fear
Would be a feat worth pursuing
Or to hear a voice in the night
Calling, calling, calling
A light house, foghorn
Abandoned covered in dust
bird shit, and spider webs
A play ground for the mice
Ships run aground
And some are out to sea
Still searching for Itaka, home home at last.
Drifting farther from the one tone
That holds all sense of meaning
It’s so simple, and that’s why
It’s been overlooked.
A monument to all who have lived
A temple built by the Greeks or the Aztecs
All great cultures that have ruled
Or been swept away with their greediness.
Answers encoded in holy books passed on
Chances to be saved
For what I don’t know
In case paradise will be waiting.
But how can anything be
More beautiful than you
Sleeping in the bed
right here by my side.
It’s getting light out in Kefalonia
The waves show me my loneliness
Which no one can take from me
And it’s good so, yeah it’s good so.
If I just sing one more song
I can hurt no one
Just keep singing a melody
Just keep singing in motion.
Sing the grief, sing the loss
Everybody’s....somebody has to
Sing the joy hidden amongst
The crumbling monuments to mankind.
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Side of the Road
03:53
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Side Of the Road c 2007 Chuck LeMonds
Pick me up from where I lay
I can’t seem to move
my old body just won’t do
what I tell it to
I took a walk on this sunny day
like I do most every day
when a storm arose on the horizon
and took my breath a way
Everybody looks so troubled
everybody looks so scared
but I hear a bird on the fence post
singing in my ear
Young man, young man don’t worry
as you lean into my face
blowing air into my lungs
offering up a saving grace
By the side of the road,
side of the road
I took my last breath,
by the side of the road. 2x Chorus
Cars drive by and some do stop
to see what’s going on
and the rain clouds are moving in
and the bird just sings his song
You can see that I’m an old man
and so today I will not cry
as I took my last breath by this road
and fell in the grass and died.
Now I wish I’d picked wild flowers for my wife of 50 years
and left them on the table in a glass to hold her tears
tell her that I’ve gone to that place that we both know
and I’ll wait under the Linden tree listening for the wind to blow.
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7. |
Looking East
03:50
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Instrumental
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8. |
Save
04:25
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What I’ve Done c Chuck LeMonds 2007
I’m standing on a corner
Standing at the gate
Facing what I’ve always seen
Would be my fate.
I can blame no one
For what I have done
I’ve broken all the rules
Taken what’s not mine.
I’m a petty small time thief
Who’s done hard time
I’ve stolen from my mother
and all the neighbors down the line.
It’s hard on the inside
It’s hard getting out
If there’s trouble in the neighborhood
I’m a suspect without a doubt.
But if it’s true that you save
A soul who doesn’t care
If it’s true that you save
A man who’s taken every dare
If it’s true that you save
A drunkard who’s lost his faith
If it’s true that you save
Then save me from my self.
I come from a good home
with breakfast every morning
chickens in the courtyard
eggs we couldn’t use we gave away.
But nothing seems to matter now
I wake up with a cough
I’ve lost all fear of the law
They can never touch my heart.
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218 or 61
03:53
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218 or 61 c Chuck LeMonds 2007
218 or 61 can take me home again
if I just keep on doing right,
I know I’ll get there when
the trees are turning color
and the air is cool at night
& my sweet gal be waiting there
to kiss and hold me tight.
218 or 61 can take me home again
Mississippi angel flowing through the land
218 or 61 can take me home again
passing through Dubuque be checking on a friend
a penny for your thoughts
a quarter for your soul.
You people just don’t know it
you just don’t have no clue
down along the river
there’s another law that rules
you should be mindful
of the business that you do
cause who knows who is watching
and who knows what they’ll do.
Refrain
The ghost of all the ancestors
standing by the way
They have seen you coming
Since the early light of day
Bow your head and pray
Go down on your knees
Show for once an ounce
Of true humility.
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10. |
The Wrong Thing
05:22
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Must Have Said The Wrong Thing c Chuck LeMonds 2007
I try to do right every where I can
Don’t want no trouble from any woman or man
Just being honest or a slip of the tongue
Can bring out the devil and get you stung.
Must have said the wrong thing
Must have said the wrong thing
Must have said the wrong thing
At the right time.
We got married in a fit of passion
Hotter than closing time on wall street
Burned a lot of bridges to get to you
Had to swim some muddy waters when it came unglued.
Ain’t had no gigs since way back when
Called all the clubs and my promoter friends
They told me long stories about how hard it’s been
And said call next year and we’ll try to fit you in.
Hey, Mister LeMonds we’re gonna blacklist you
Been talking bad about Bush and Mr. Cheney too
Rumsfield is shaken by your revelations
Better watch out for unforeseen complications.
Things could have been worse
Things could have been better
I was just happy to be alive when I got the letter
Tax man wants to know how I live on so little
I said, ”That’s a secret man….that’s your riddle!”
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11. |
Spring Come Again
03:43
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Instrumental
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Chuck LeMonds Austria
Chuck LeMonds’ music is a kind of Country Soul gumbo of blues, folk, funk and country with poetic lyrics that call to be heard. In times like these, the music and songwriting of Chuck LeMonds has the effect of a soothing balsam for the soul, or that of a plow turning over fresh soil in a field waiting to be planted in spring. ... more
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