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STAR​~​LIGHT O'ER HIGH DESERT (2013)

by Bill Mallonee

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(LITTLE BABY) UNDER THE STAR words/music: Bill Mallonee 1. I hear there were some fuzzy-faced animals there when you showed up in the world and every friend you've ever chose since well, they've all been kicked to the curb and to all those poor in spirit? well, they ain't never seen anything like you... chorus: Under the star Baby, under the star Yeah, under the star Little baby under the star Under the star...you come as you are under the star......in your heart 2. you can look for him in hell ah, but I hear he's already left you can look for him in heaven that was just a temporary forwarding address if you really wanna meet 'em. i hear he thinks the world of you 3. Now, kingdoms come & kingdoms go but, it's all mostly just a bore man's greed & man's killing well, that's what we're mostly known for what's all this about the faith of a child and this "you gotta come as you are?"
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HOOVER~VILLE words/music: bill mallonee a statue in the harbor said: "I welcome you." when i saw that smile i took it at face value she said: "Give me your weary, your tired & your ill. i'll find 'em all a place...in Hoover~ville. I had a guitar full of stories & a head full of ghosts I would open the case and then I'd hold forth but, when the act of living is an act of the will you learn that kinda faith down in Hoover~ville you learn that kinda faith down in Hoover~ville every world made by man is bound to crash and the rich man loves what cannot love him back courage may be a small ember but, it's one you can't kill It's in no short supply in Hoover~ville It's in no short supply in Hoover~ville now, it's Christmas in New York & make no mistake life? she is brutish & the the devil he waits And the tears we cry for everyone's death are also the tears we cry for ourselves Give me your weary, you tired & your ill I'll gather 'em up in hoover~ville Yes, I'll gather 'em up in Hoover~ville
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BEULAH~LAND 05:27
BEULAHLAND words/music by bill mallonee you get a heart made for "forever" born in a world where nothing lasts and faith? she's a tattered flag flying at half mast and aching is a compass but it won't work in the cold that the bridges that you try to build well, they never seem to hold I sat in many a church as a boy and as a man don't we all just want that ticket to that Beulahland Death? that old shadowy figure s'always lurking in the wings and all that goodness & all that wonder Does it really mean a thing? letting go is what they tell you so, i've been at it a while (you try) to place a ring of hope on the finger of what you can't seem to reconcile Chorus 2. i saw every soul begging for someone to understand don't we all just want that ticket to Beulahland Now, grief has been a mistress and sadness is so in love with me but i look forward to the day when we part company just to dream one day we're all made whole and this was all part of the plan ah, but now i'm getting older ...and You're still slipping through my hands chorus 3 & 4 I heard many a sales pitch all throughout this land but don't we all just want that ticket to Beulahland? oh, grant us all safe passage but you're gonna have to grab me by the hand don't we all just want that ticket to Beulahland?
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KISS THE YEARS AWAY words/music: bill mallonee 1. you say this one was a bear well, may the new one come as a dove you say this one here was full of grief well, may the the next one be full of love take only what you learned from it and lay the rest in the grave chorus tag: and kiss...the years and kiss...the years kiss the years....a...way. 2. when every North-star of a truth is never firmly fixed and terra firma is a slippery slope with yet another Christmas and if that choir of angels don't show up to stay 3. now babe, all i've got are miracles when it comes to you and I and every river that we cross knits your heart more to mine and all those rivers they run to the sea where love has the final say... 4. when there are no plumb lines that's snaping true and every measuring rod is wrecked every calculation a half truth all logarithms suspect with the Spirit you gotta close your eyes to see a different way 5. now, hatred is a weed within and our hearts? they seem to freeze and wars? well, we got that one down call it our specialty sometimes all the final words are a baby in the hay 7. brother, you may be a sinner or you may be a saint but everyone's a flower in need of soil & sun & rain The Lord? He keeps the garden using suffering as his spade 8. So, travel light, enjoy the view and try to do what's right find that special friend so true to get you through the night help your brothers & sisters along the dark highway
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"Starlight O'er High Desert" is a 5-song download Advent/Christmas themed EP.

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released December 16, 2013

Bill Mallonee: electric & acoustic guitars, vocals, bass, drums, string arrangements.
Muriah Rose: organ on "Kiss the Years Away."

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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.
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