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Big Whoa Nelly
03:56
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somehow I’m still hung up
tried to quit but not that hard
cause the truth is
you’re my crutch
and moving on would be entirely too much
not in Allston much these days
keep my distance just in case
cause if I’d known from the start
I still would have let you break my heart
cause you’re the chip on my shoulder
somebody to brood over
I was just a fool to think you’d change
you’re the fire in my belly
you’re my big whoa nelly
I guess you were the one that got away
a half finished love affair
on a cloud then shot down in midair
far off echoes from this bed
ballroom melodies stuck in my head
but you weren’t like other boys
I ripped up your polaroids
and I thought that I was through
but between us I kept one or two
cause you’re the chip on my shoulder
somebody to brood over
I was just a fool to think you’d change
you’re the fire in my belly
you’re my big whoa nelly
I guess you were the one that got away
I guess that you could say that
god knows you’ve played that game
at my expense oh didn’t you?
well now you’re just somebody
yeah that’s all you are honey
now you’re just somebody I once knew
thought you were my lover
but everytime that I try another
I just think of you that rainy day
when you changed my guitar strings
you got to the heart of me
oh don’t you even start with me
yeah you got to the heart of me
but where did you get the heart
oh where did you get the heart
where’d you get the heart
to walk away, hey oh
where’d you get the heart
to walk away?
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2. |
Trap Door Heart
02:33
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you thought I let you into my heart
but it was a trap door
thought I was rolling out the red carpet
but it was a bare floor
see I never intended to tell you a lie
wouldn’t have pulled the wool over your eyes
Oh no, I don’t give a damn if I am on the line
oh I’ll just say goodbye
when did that become a crime?
I don’t even have a good reason
I never do, I just get that itch to be leaving
your room and my worried shoes
you thought I was the end of the line
but I’m just a pit stop
thought I was everything you needed and more
I made your heart stop drop and roll
oh but I know that it’s only a matter of time
before I’m lookin’ from the other side, oh no
I’ll say that I just had to let that one go
anyways I’m better off on my own
it’s getting harder every time
I don’t even have a good reason
I never do, I just get that itch to be leaving
your room and my worried shoes
you thought I let you into my heart
but it was a trap door
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Oo Mama
03:16
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oo mama, he’s gonna walk away
oo with a piece of my heart
oo I always knew there’d come a day
when we’re just a forgotten work of art
I don’t love you
I just want the chance to
but chips fall where they may
I just want to say
that oo mama, I don’t regret the day
that I almost got to your heart
you and I had to go our separate ways
but in my life you’ve played a part
it’s complicated, but your serrated
edges cut me good
like you said they would
behind every coward is a man
doing all he can
not to let you see his sleight of hand
some people you can’t trust
they’ll only reveal what they must
and then they’ll shake you off like dust
I might have loved you
if I’d had the chance to
but darlin’ I’m okay
to watch you walk away
cause oo mama, I’ve known what it’s like to lay
in the comfort of your arms
and oo I always knew you wouldn’t stay
it’s just the way you left that did me harm
oo, you did me harm
oo, you were a false alarm
oo, you didn’t me harm
oo, you were a false alarm
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4. |
Angel From Montgomery
03:13
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I am an old woman named after my mother
my old man is another
child that’s grown old
if dreams were thunder and lightning was desire
this old house would have burnt down a long time ago
make me an angel that flies from Montgom’ry
make me a poster of an old rodeo
just give me one thing that I can hold on to
to believe in this living is just a hard way to go
when I was a young girl, well I had me a cowboy
he weren’t much to look at, just free rambling man
but that was a long time and no matter how I try
the years just flow by like a broken down dam
make me an angel that flies from Montgom’ry
make me a poster of an old rodeo
just give me one thing that I can hold on to
to believe in this living is just a hard way to go
there’s flies in the kitchen, I can hear ‘em buzzing
and I ain’t done nothing since I woke up today
tell me how can a person go to work in the morning
come home in the evening and have nothing to say?
make me an angel that flies from Montgom’ry
make me a poster of an old rodeo
just give me one thing that
I can hold on to
to believe in this living is just a hard way to go
to believe in this living is just a hard way to go
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Texas Moon (June's Song)
02:42
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you always had my mother’s hands
yours is the skin from which my skin began
it’s been six years since granddad died but
you talk like he’s still alive
we break the news, he dies again
in your eyes
in blue bell may, the texas moon
it waned before the month of june
I might forget the alamo
but I’ll remember you
this I live by, it’s my curse
there’s always someone better
always someone worse
I hold you in my heart’s
repeating verse
you passed away in blue bell may
I held your hand but you couldn’t stay
I miss you, I miss you
I might forget the alamo
but I’ll remember you
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6. |
Galway City
04:05
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we met in a pub in Galway City
you’d remember, it was so
and though we may never meet again
it doesn’t seem so long ago
not so long ago
not a drop fell on us as we danced
in the streets whose names I can’t recall
the Galway rain refrained for us
just a moment, that was all
a moment, that was all
but honey, honey, honey
why did I have to go?
honey, honey, honey
why did you let me go?
when an Irishman smiles upon her
a woman never forgets
and the farther I go
from Galway my home
I wonder why I ever left
you were the only one night stand
that ever tried to hold my hand
I’d like to think I never let it go
miss those Irish eyes
and that talk so witty
had to leave you behind in Galway City
I dream of you but
it’s no use I know
but honey, honey, honey
why did I have to go?
Tony, Tony, Tony
why did you let me go?
if e’er again I find myself
on that lovely emerald isle
I’ll cross that River Corrib
and I’ll lay me there a while
I’ll lay me there a while
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Margeaux Sippell Boston, Massachusetts
An acoustic guitar playin' gentle melody singin' folk-pop singer-songwriter
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