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Early Bird
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Recorded as Southern Ghetto Architecture: Jesse Gilpin: drums Jason Spergel: bass B.N.: Vocals, guitar
music blues country roots songwriting mono rural analogue folkways
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Great Big Yam is all about the picnics and harvests. Rural music from rural people.
Great Big Yam is a collective and individual effort to preserve traditional American music and create songs within that tradition. From the traveling blues to the banjo breakdown to the jigs and reels native to Ireland to the African roots to folk protest songs.
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Genre
Rock • Rock n Roll
Charts
Peak #1,244
Peak in subgenre #66
Author
Bryan Newbury
Rights
2006 Bryan Newbury
Uploaded
August 29, 2006
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MP3 2.9 MB • 128 kbps • 3:08
Story behind the song
Everyone knows a waitress like this.
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"Well, I'll bet you turned a lot of heads not so long ago. Then again, that's what every waitress says on this side of Chicago." "They'd worship me down by the river, in the hills along the fall." "Now that ain't so hard to believe, not so hard at all." "But time has taken my young face, work has worn my body down. I found a guy, we found this place and I'm still stuck here in this town. Do these lines show my age? Are my eyes as black as night?" "It's only one opinion; but not in this light. "I'll have coffee and a smoke, where's your cigarette machine?" "You can't smoke here anymore, not until the owner leaves. I've found a reason after all this time, after all my time to grieve. I always find my reasons, or so I believe. "Do these bruises show my weakness? Have I up and lost my fight?" "You might be looking for reasons, not in this light. It shines overhead so bright and so cruel. I think I'll take the tea instead if it's all the same to you."
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