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HEARTS UP ON THE GALLOWS
words & music bill mallonee BMI.c2021
published by "Once More, This Time With Feeling" Music

Perspectives are half the diagnosis
to an answer we seem eager to evade
And your heart? It's looking like more than just psychosis
What you see in the clear light of day

Chorus:
There are crosses & there's nooses & electric chairs
For the kind of tidings you seem apt (prone, poised) to bring
But, as long as there are hearts up on the gallows?
You still have a song or two to sing;
You'll still have a song or two to sing

No doubt the game was rigged & the deck was stacked
Still, you carried on with a studied nonchalance
You up and grabbed the take and beat it out the back
Now, I call that a healthy response

repeat chorus

Exporting violence in one form or another
Drawing lines between sisters & brothers
Love's an idea still gone unaddressed
If you live by the sword?...
Ah, well, you know the rest

repeat chorus

Bill Mallonee: Vocals, electric & acoustic guitars, bass, drums, harmonica, harmony vocals
Bill Pratt: pedal steel
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from HERE IT OPENS WITH A PRAYER, BUT IT CLOSES WITH A SONG (2022), released May 13, 2022
Bill Mallonee: electric & acoustic guitars, vocals, bass guitar, drums, harmonies, harmonica
Bill Pratt: pedal steel

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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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