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SHAKE DOWN
w&m: bill mallonee admin BMI 2018
Everyone I know carries a heavy heart
One they try and to keep hid outta sight
And everyone I know feels just like a ghost
Who'd wanna bring that up to the Light?

Shake Down...everything is broken
Shake Down...to the bitter end
Ear to the ground
Is there Anyone approaching?
Guaranteed to put you back together again
Back...together...again

It was out there on the trail
it filled the burning sky
Comfort of the moonlight overhead
sitting in the shadows
It drank with you at the well
More than a dream inside our heads

Shake Down...everything is broken
Shake Down...to the bitter end
Ear to the ground
Is there Anyone approaching?
Guaranteed to put you back together again
Back...together...again

It was sometime in late Autumn
Black Hills of South Dakota
The Spirit hovered over the terrain
You gathered leaves of gladness
& sorrow from the start
Everyone I know carries a heavy heart

Shake Down...everything is broken
Shake Down...to the bitter end
Ear to the ground
Is there Anyone approaching?
Guaranteed to put you back together again
Back...together...again

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from "LEAD ON, KINDLY LIGHT" & "THIS WORLD & ONE MORE" (2020), released February 14, 2020
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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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