Coming up this Saturday ... Jim Gleason's Little People - Part 2
Songs:The Old Shaker (106332)
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The Old Shaker The blossoms in the garden are a mix of white and pink, The coffee stains the wool of my ragged dirty shirt, I used to be a logger in the great nor’west, Near the coast of Ahipara where the sun begins to set. *Cousin Darrel's feedin roaches, Grandmas diggin in the ditch; Daddy's off a fightin, Momma's working at the church; Me I snuff tobacco and the doctor says I'm sick; I hardly miss a motion while I shake where I sit. The globe in the hallway is a spinnin round and round, The cables in the courtyard send shockwaves to the ground, I reckon I've travelled to an uncertain place, The teacup in the cubbard said so to my face* White boys goin barefoot blackboys laughin in the sun, Sunday’s for receiving when the work is all done, There's piles of pine and kauri to be processed at the mill, When I commence a shakin grandma wakes me for my pill* I wish I was a sailor or a prairie pioneer, Riding ocean ripples or on some dusty trail, A place of open spaces where I hear a coyote call, To see without glasses or walk without a fall*
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 | Folk 5,997 items |
 | Solo vocalist 11,948 items |
 | Acoustic 10,060 items |
 | Acoustic guitar 9,966 items |
 | Fiddle 1,708 items |
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Categories: Folk | Solo vocalist | Acoustic | Acoustic guitar | Fiddle
