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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.

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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.

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from Album: Mississippi Angel (2008), released September 25, 2008
Chuck LeMonds - acoustic guitar, vocals

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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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