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UP OWL CREEK ROAD (2:59)

 

Guitar/Squeezebox/Vocals-Slats Klug,

Guitar-Rich Morpurgo, Mandolin-Jason McCulley,

Bass-Steve Mascari, Percussion-Jamey Reid

 

I TRIED TO PRAY

LIKE I WAS TOLD

WORDS FADED AWAY

UP OWL CREEK ROAD

 

I JUMPED IN THE LAKE 

BUT I JUST GOT COLD

ONE WAY TO TAKE

UP OWL CREEK ROAD

 

WENT UPTOWN FOR A COUPLE BREWS

DRANK THEM DOWN

JUST GAVE ME THE BLUES

BOUGHT ANOTHER ROUND GOT SO HIGH

BUT I COULDN'T DROWN SO I SAID GOODBYE

TO ALL THE RUST THAT I THOUGHT WAS GOLD

IT TURNS TO DUST UP OWL CREEK ROAD

 

NASHVILLE NIGHT

BROODING 'BOUT THE PAST

SWEARING AT THE LIGHT

AND MY SHADOW CAST

WHEN THE JUDGE HE SIGHS AND SAYS 'GOOD LORD SON

DON'T YOU THINK IT WISE TO LET THE PAST BE DONE

AND LAUGH AT THE LIES YOU BOUGHT AND SOLD

THAT LYING DIES UP OWL CREEK ROAD'

 

THAT JUDGE WAS RIGHT

WHEN THE TRUTH GOT TOLD

IT STEERED ME RIGHT UP OWL CREEK ROAD

 

 

 

 BLUE HAZE DAYS (3:21)

 

Lead Vocals-Dave Gore, Robbie Bowden,

Backup Vocal-Frank Jones, Backup Vocal/Guitar/

Squeezebox-Slats Klug, Mandolin-Jason McCulley, Pedal

Steel Guitar-Rich Morpurgo, Harmonica-Jason Ricci,

Bass-Steve Mascari, Drums-Tim Moore

 

 

I REMEMBER LOOKING UP DEEP IN THE SKY

MOON AND STARS ABLAZE

WAS IT ALL JUST A BEAUTIFUL DREAM

THOSE GOOD OL' BLUE HAZE DAYS

 

UP WITH THE SUN I WOULD GRAB MY BIKE

MEET MY BUDDIES DOWN AT BROWN COUNTY PARK

FISHING AND SWIMMING AND TELLING LIES

BEFORE YOU KNEW IT, IT WAS DARK

TOOK US SOME FIREBALLS AND TURKISH TAFFY

WAX LIPS AND A HOSTESS CUPCAKE

BOLOGNA AND CHEESE THAT OUR MOMS HAD PACKED US

WASHED IT DOWN WITH ORANGE CRUSH AND A SHAKE

 

THEN WE GREW UP

SEEMED LIKE ONE SAD DAY

EVERYTHING HAD CHANGED

TO CARS AND BARS AND GOING AWAY

LIFE SURE GOT REARRANGED

 

GOT SOME KIDS NOW OF MY OWN

TAKE THEM CAMPING OUT IN BROWN COUNTY PARK

S'MORES ON A STICK, FISH IN THE FRYING PAN

AND SCARY STORIES WAY PAST DARK

 

NOW WHEN I LOOK UP DEEP IN THE SKY

MOON AND STARS ABLAZE

GLAD I'M STILL LIVING THIS BEAUTIFUL DREAM

THESE GOOD OL' BLUE HAZE DAYS

 

 

 

 

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