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Field Recordings

by Slum Boys

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To My Home 03:31
To My Home I was young when I left home But I been out a-ramblin’ ‘round And I never wrote a letter to my home To my home, Lord, to my home And I never wrote a letter to my home Used to tell Ma sometimes When I was riding blind Gonna make me a home out in the wind In the wind, Lord in the wind Make me a home out in the wind I don’t like it in the wind Wanna go back home again But I can’t go home thisaway Thisaway, Lord Lord Lord And I can’t go home thisaway To My Home I was young when I left home And I been out rambling ‘round And I never wrote a letter to my home To my home, Lord Lord Lord And I never wrote a letter to my home
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Singing Sands Across the singing sands In the iron lands We were drinking by the sea We danced and raved Cradled by the waves Till the tide washed over me Down by skinners pond I stumbled along And began to feel a breeze My head started to spin In a ghostly wind And I fell to my knees The was no sound or motion Everything went to black I was suddenly awoken By a hand upon my back I started to speak My breathe it reeked Of last nights wine I turned around Not a soul to be found So i moved it down the line Eternity Looking down on me As i gazed up into the sky The sound of the spheres Rolling ‘round my ears As i keep walking by
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Devil Red Blues Let me tell you about a pretty girl, she broke my heart today Let me tell you about a pretty girl, she broke my heart today If you see a red haired woman, you're better off running away She’s crazy like a hoot owl, she’ll tempt you like a garden snake She’s crazy like a hoot owl, she’ll tempt you like a garden snake She’ll grab you by the throat pull your teeth out and beat you till you break It’s dangerous to love her, I seen her bite the head off of a dove It’s dangerous to love her, I seen her bite the head off of a dove She takes her vodka with her whiskey, and carries a gun when she’s making love She’s something so unnatural, she comes right from the pits of hell She’s something so unnatural, she comes right from the pits of hell At first I thought she was an angel, turns out I didn’t know all to well She put my back to the cold wall, held my tongue, hissed in my ear In that moment she had me, held me for a thousands years She put my back to the cold wall, held my tongue, hissed in my ear In that moment she had me, lord she held me for a thousands years Now, Red is the Devils color, your hair whips around like Satan’s flames Now, Red is the Devils color, your hair whips around like Satan’s flames But your sinning’s why I love you, no, nothing in heaven can rock me quite the same
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Listen 04:10
Listen Be quiet now for a minute, honey, don’t say a single word let me talk to you I gotta tell you something, I gotta be heard, this is what I gotta do ‘Cause there’s someones blood on the ground and pretty soon I’m gonna have to leave town So, let me ask you one time, woman Just Listen They’ll ask you questions, say bad things about me, it’s all lies No tell them nothing, say you don’t where I’d be, it’s all a surprise Then run home and lock the windows and doors And don’t let no one in no more When the phone rings, it’ll be me calling you asking one more time Just Listen Give the baby three kisses for me, tell junior I love him, then go grab my gun Pack up your bags, get in the car, and then ride with the sun You’ll start to see a blue mist in the air And there won’t be nobody near You’ll hear no sound but the old coyotes groan and Just Listen Now my time is up, well, I love you honey, but I gotta go I won’t be coming back no more, so here’s the truth, here’s what you gotta know When the gun smoke has cleared Walk out onto that foggy pier You’ll hear no sound but my voice echo in the ghostly wind, it’ll moan the truth, don’t think Just Listen
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Gumbo Joe 04:37
Gumbo Joe Whaddya you know, Gumbo joe Do-si-do’s, to and fro Whaddya you know Its Gumbo joe Whad’ya you know, It’s Gumbo Joe, Talks real low Cuts the snow, counts his dough Well, I seen him in El Paso Down in the swamps of Louisianna Seen him out in Reno And over in Atlanta Gumbo joe Whaddya know Plays his cane, talks urbane Drinks his pain, rots his brain Who’s to blame? Plays his game Who’s to blame? Takes the next train, don’t take names Takes him aim, shoots with shame He’s been painting Mississippi Wanted down in Baton Rouge He’s pimpin’ down in New Orleans That boy’s got nothing to lose Traps catfish in the bayou’s and he sells em’ for a buck Spends his nights in the saloons, and he plays his Cajun luck His father was a con-man, he was always on a lamb Born in fire and ashes, now that boy’s one hell of a man No code of honor to fool him, no bloodline to uphold Nobody there can school him, no pathways lined with gold Just police dogs a-drooling, just one more bridge is burned A lonesome shadow looming, just one more wrong turn I been around I been up and down The streets before Threw the dice Gave up my life Kicked down the door In they came They called out my name Today is the day My hand it drew It came right on cue They blew me away
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Barefoot Valley Your rain it carves out my mountainsides and Makes green the trees that we walk beside and Washes the trail that we left behind for all souls of those who have come before Your pain hides under the scattered clouds where Shadows they cover the scars in your stair But they pass swiftly just like a bad dream We keep on walking down by the stream Down among the leaves i see your hollow face Searching for a feeling that you can’t replace Chorus: But in the Barefoot Valley your river runs clear The fairy’s on the water and honey’s in your ear Starlight by the forest in the light of the pine Weeping of a willow and the pulse of the vine Everyone is feeling fine The maze of people twists through the meadow Talking and weeping in the small borough They’re picking cattails and braiding their hair They’re sipping water and running bare The council fires are burning tonight All the ladies dancing into the midnight The spirits floating above the tree’s Making sweet music for you and me The bohemian shanty's by the old flower mill The waterwheel’s is rolling and it’s turning still Chorus And I’m so glad that your feeling fine, today
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Blueberry Hill I found my thrill On Blueberry Hill On Blueberry Hill, When I found you The moon stood still On top of Blueberry Hill And lingered till All my dreams came true The wind in the willow played Love's sweet melody But all of those plans we made They were never meant to be Though we're apart, you're part of me still For you were my thrill on Blueberry Hill Though we're apart, you're part of me still For you were my thrill on Blueberry Hill
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Goodnight, Sleep Well My eyes turn to dust, and our feet don’t touch the ground And we’re a million miles from home Our clothes are all wet, covered in mud and sweat But it’s love that is aching through our bones Chorus: I said “Goodnight, Sleep Well Now that midnight has rung it’s bells, If you see me in your dreams Babe, I promise I won’t tell” Well, there’s honey in your eyes, babe, you’re in for a surprise I got a trick or two left up my sleeve In the moonlights old dance, oh, that livid silver trance we’ll lay ‘neath the bird songs of the tree’s Chorus I been down and out all day, with few words to say Now I think a strong drink might ease my mind Let me drink up your smile, oh, baby, smile at me for a while and I’ll leave my old sack of sorrows behind Chorus Now the cat’s on his prowl, and the lights are fading out Baby, shake yourself on over to me My girls got 23 rings, and everyone of them sings All together in an old harmony Chorus
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Thief River Falls In the Thief River falls on a warm summers night Suzy Price was walking home when she saw the flash of a light Well, she looked onto the bridge and saw Billy’s body fall She locked eyes with the Shadow who shot her dead against the wall The papers came out the next morning, the headlines were splattered with blood People screaming, and crying, and moaning, like any proud American should The police they proclaimed it was Billy, The old drunk finally gone lost his mind Shot Suzy for fun, blew his brains out with the gun, but they just got it all wrong one more time Chorus: Oh the Thief River Falls, the Thief River Falls She turned in the night, and she saw it all Oh the Thief River Falls, the Thief River Falls It’s just one more shot dead in the Thief River Falls Now the Shadow sits up in his zeitgeist, looking over his kingdoms below He’s got the whole world doing his bidding, with nothing but money to show And he leans back in his armchair, as a grin crosses over his face Then he chuckles the sounds of power which rule the human race Oh the Thief River Falls, the Thief River Falls She turned in the night, and she saw it all Oh the Thief River Falls, the Thief River Falls It’s just one more shot dead in the Thief River Falls Oh the Thief River Falls, the Thief River Falls She turned in the night, and she saw it all Oh the Thief River Falls, the Thief River Falls No one will ever get out of the Thief River Falls
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Rollin' On 03:09
Rollin’ On I been working all my best, Momma, but I can’t afford to eat I’m in dire need of rest, Momma, and I can’t get no sleep Got an achin’ in my chest, Momma, and I can’t hardly breathe I been lonesome, I been crying, Momma, and I can’t move my feet Well, I been counting up my sins, Daddy, and I can’t find no church My voice is getting thin, Daddy, calling out from my high perch Someones got me pinned, Daddy, and they won’t give up the search I’m all washed up and wasted, Daddy, and I can’t get much worse Tell me I ain’t alone, Brother, Tell me I got a friend The world’s skin and bone, Brother, and we all need a friend I’m lost and I’m stoned, Brother, don’t you understand? When I’m lying in your gutter, Brother, won’t you lend a hand When I’m lying in your gutter, Brother, won’t you lend a hand Take me to the river, Sister, let me float along When the sun is just a sliver, Sister, show me the path I’m on Hold me as I shiver, Sister, Hold me till the break of dawn And as the day crosses over, Sister, I’ll be Rollin’ On And as the day crosses over, Sister, I’ll be Rollin’ On And as the day crosses over, Sister, I’ll be Rollin’ On
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Interlude 00:44
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In The Twilight He had the Soul of a soldier for hire but his pay was never so good all day he sat on the corner, with nothing to do his heart was cursed by desire and in that havana square she stood the sun grew a little warmer, shed its golden rays on you My mind went all a blank, and there was no rum to be had as she crossed over, with a beckoning hand She offered me a drink when i needed it so bad She said take me while I'm loaded, or don’t you understand? Chorus: She worked her way under my skin, that woman I was livin’ under the golden light of sin Swallowed me whole, and scattered my soul She will follow me down, to the end In those days, she called me sweet daddy drinking in the twilight, (making love) in the suffocating heat In that carribean way I wallowed in her flesh for day We kept our heads above water, just enough to breathe Chorus One summer night, I felt a pain in my head six hours later, she wasn't in my bed I’ve been working on the streets waiting for our eyes to cross everything now that i once had is lost its been five long years she ain’t called me at all must’ve gone of with some rich sailor, in the lap of luxury But i’ve drank away the tears and my old wounds have turned to scars now everything just seems the same to me

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Slum Boys debut album "Field Recordings" is an explorative journey through the back roads of the American musical tradition, featuring a hot mix of Blues, Jazz, Rock'N'Roll, Folk, Gospel, Creole, and Roots music.

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released July 13, 2016

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