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KID HEART/WPA 11 Bill Mallonee

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1.	Bill Mallonee/WPA - THE RIVERS' ALWAYS BEEN A FRIEND OF MINE 05:27	lyrics	buy track
THE RIVERS' ALWAYS BEEN FRIEND OF MINE music & lyrics: bill mallonee Check the source of the River's course and every time i find that River's always been a friend of mine i remember back when i was a kid with an eye for the sublime yep, that River's always been a friend of mine CHORUS: Friend of mine there's no doubt in season & out though sometimes that river bed has run dry But that's only temporary so me? I do declare-y The river's always been a friend of mine whether panning for gold or baptizing a soul or casting out your fly That River's always been a friend of mine I'd ask her questions during those hard times and i swear she did reply that River's always been a friend of mine gather up your sorrows and all those faces that you borrowed just to find yourself... a place to shine and when you've drifted far from land and when the shit hits the fan That River's always been a friend of mine
2.	Bill Mallonee/WPA - GRIND 05:17	lyrics	buy track
GRIND words/music: bill mallonee 1. paint me a picture...one with blood and steel paint it with the tears of the widows...weeping in the fields Chorus: Kid heart in the country Kid heart in the city livin' hard to earn that wage dyin' a little more inside each day Kid heart in the factory heart behind the plow and a heart on the assembly line kid with a man's dream on his mind 2. fill that picture up with the clear light of day render t so holly i can't walk away 3. And there ain't no gold at the end of any company's rainbow and a single solitary dime that's worth dyin' for
3.	Bill Mallonee/WPA - KID HEART (free) 06:16	lyrics	buy track
KID HEART By: Bill Mallonee There's the sound of weariness making her rounds only heard there was one road out of this town Between the diamond and the defect dusty archives that cha kept the locust years were all we ever found So i traded in my kid's heart for this guitar and a small spark the cards were all well marked...in advance the taintedness of everything it all came soaked in gasoline and the asphalt she was beckoning towards a different kinda reckoning your kiss...awaken me...from this trance and you'd like to think you chose this that path you say you took but you know that's rewriting....rewriting the book once you heard that tremolo and 6 string drag go down once you heard that lonesome record...going round sun broke over heartland sun broke overheard and that Rosary on the rearview...went unsaid
4.	Bill Mallonee/WPA - CAN'T PAY MY RENT (But I Hope To Soon) 04:00	lyrics	buy track
CAN'T PAY MY RENT (BUT I HOPE TO SOON) music/lyrics: bill mallonee 1. can't pay my rent...but i hope to soon i'm a lil' short on the coins and that's long over due to tell the truth, it's been hard to find any work 'round here to do can't pay my rent but i hope to soon 2. i hope you'll put...some stock in my words before what little i have left is left out on the curb you shake your head & look at your shoes (what's an honest man suppose to do?) can't pay my rent...but i hope to soon 3. well, i heard their closing another factory down all those good men and women, packin' it in and getting outta town what with all those mouths to feed and no reason to believe can't pay my rent...but i hope to soon
5.	Bill Mallonee/WPA - BURLINGTON NORTHERN 05:32	lyrics	buy track
BURLINGTON-NORTHERN music/lyrics: bill mallonee Gave up the wheat, gave up on the cattle gave up on a shade tree garage black & white freeze-frame, photo montage the tracks led in here from nowhere it seems and those tracks led back to the same place again to the same old place again At night there were things you could hear in the wind the crashing of steel and the cursing of men every single soul stormed tossed switch yards and couplings and stories of ust moving Black Hills coal to the shiny metropolis the shiny metropolis CHORUS: you shrug your shoulders at fate and at the mouth of the grave it's easy to get lost and it's hard to get saves kid, if this was the town you were born in if this was the town you were born in if this was the town you were born in you'll take your place on the Burlington-Northern 3. The unions, well, they did...their very best to protect what little we had left the weight of all things intangible so you learn it my feel and you know by smell it's there in your sweat and the secrets you can't tell secrets you can't tell 4. Shepherds can't heal the deepest of needs there's not a prophet with a vision to bequeath no future kings to anoint but i got me and baby, i got you maybe not the best arrangement but i think it'll do faith stretched out to the breakin' point
6.	Bill Mallonee/WPA - MY "FARE THEE WELL" SONG 04:52	lyrics	buy track
FARE THEE WELL SONG words/music: bill mallonee I inspected all the maps cobbled from various reports no hard evidence as of yet but rumors too hard to ignore so I gassed the car, threw in a guitar put the pedal to the floor heard a voice when I was younger well maybe more like a whisper it spoke of glory faraway so I became a drifter some folks frown on such frivolities but it’s better than closing up your ears Chorus #1 stumblin’ down these highways and they all look the same to a long lost destination with a long forgotten name So I think I’ll call this one my fare thee well song I heard it in a child’s laughter and in a gambler’s bet in my beloved’s kiss where hearts and stars intersect but I will admit on most days that voice seems hardly there at all Chorus #2 we’re all stumblin’ down the back road walkin’ wounded just the same towards a long-lost destination with a long forgotten name So I think I’ll call this one my Fare Thee Well song if you’ll take a risk if you’ll make a start if you’ll pick up your hammer and if you’ll drop your guard free your imagination to live in your neighbor’s skin and your heart will start to soften you might even lend a hand anyone is capable even politicians and you’ll find that you can carry more than you ever believed Chorus #3 we’re all stumblin’ down the road nah, this ain’t no walk in the park groping down a hallway whistlin’ in the dark so you can join a long in this fare thee well song

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released August 7, 2011

Bill Mallonee: vocals, guitars (electric, acoustic, hi-string), harmonica, drums, piano

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Bill Mallonee

Bill Mallonee is an Americana artist w/ 80 plus albums over a 30 year career. Voted by Paste Music Magazine #65 in their "Top 100 Living Songwriters" poll. He was the
founding member of Vigilantes of Love. He has worked with Mark Heard, Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris, & Peter Buck from REM.
His most recent work, "Lead On, Kindly Light" is a 23song double Cd released Feb 2020. ... more

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