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City County Line
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From "Satisfied" - Loose Canon jam of March 15th, 2014. Recorded, as usual unflinchingly live, with Robert Darlington: Guitar, Voclas; Brian Chaney: Guitar, Vocals, Chuck Joseph: Bass; Mike Redding, Guitars, Mandolin, Vocals, engineering.
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Hank49 - Original words and music in a variety of styles including Americana, Country, Folk, Blues, Indie, and Rock. Facebook mirror: http://www.faceboo
I am a musician and songwriter (primarily guitar and mandolin, but with amateur forays into banjo, fiddle, concertina, percussion and keyboard), jammer and jam host, recording engineer, producer, studio mole and occasional performer. When I perform solo, I'm hank49. When friends accompany me, we're hank49 and Loose Canon. Loose Canon is an ever shifting assembly of fellow musicians including Tom Edwards, Mitch Prevatte, Brian Chaney, Kevin Chaney, Lena and Jason Redding, Bronson Shanahan, Robert Darlington, Dave Eske, Johnny Decker, John O'hara, John Seay and more.
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Rock
Charts
Peak #90
Peak in subgenre #12
Author
Michael J. Redding (BMI)
Rights
Michael J. Redding (BMI)
Uploaded
March 16, 2014
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MP3 11.8 MB • 320 kbps • 5:08
Story behind the song
True story: https://www.facebook.com/notes/michael-redding/the-city-county-line/10152231856974373
Lyrics
THE CITY COUNTY LINE Back on Walnut Avenue I had a baby Ruth Her daddy was a cop, her momma was aloof He’d come on downstairs, napped and ready for his shift 1969, I musta looked the sh** “Where you been boy”, he’d look at me and smile “Out under a bush tokin’ up for a while?” CHORUS: On the City County Line, The City County Line If it ain’t your business, then just you never mind Yeah we’re doin’ fine, yeah we’re flying blind Can I get a witness on the city county line Not too far off Germantown and closer to the mills Where the sulfur filled the air and the sulfur paid the bills The air was pink with poison and the kitchen light was dim She said she liked to watch me eat, I didn’t know back then Just what might transpire in the living room that night On the sofa with her brother in the Television light CHORUS: On the City County Line, The City County Line If it ain’t your business, then just you never mind Yeah we’re doin’ fine, yeah we’re flying blind Can I get a witness on the city county line A chillin’ Summer evening, watchin’ black and white I was to her left and her brother to her right We’re looking straight ahead, but things are getting hot Her hand is on my thigh, and her hand is all I got Now I ain’t goin’ nowhere, and I don’t know what’s next And I don’t really care ‘cause I’m totally perplexed. CHORUS: On the City County Line, The City County Line If it ain’t your business, then just you never mind Yeah we’re doin’ fine, yeah we’re flying blind Can I get a witness on the city county line I can’t believe it’s happening, but I can’t say no We’re all staring at the TV but the TV ain’t the show It ended with a bang, as you might deduce And it ended with a whimper, and it ended with a truce Of silence and denial, if anybody asks Her daddy woke and went to work, and then the time just passed CHORUS: On the City County Line, The City County Line If it ain’t your business, then just you never mind Yeah we’re doin’ fine, yeah we’re flying blind Can I get a witness on the city county line So I see the morning paper a couple decades on And there’s a local story with her brother’s name in stone ‘Seems he rigged a bomb, torched his neighbor’s house Voluntary fireman, he was quiet as a mouse Did that kinky evening cause his post traumatic stress I felt a little guilty, it really was a mess CHORUS: On the City County Line, The City County Line If it ain’t your business, then just you never mind Yeah we’re doin’ fine, yeah we’re flying blind Can I get a witness on the city county line
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