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Giants From A Sleepy Town

by Michael O'Connor

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a child will sing a song of love trade it for the blues of working fool with no one looking out for me flesh and bone was all I had to lose all those days we traveled oh so hard scratch and fight to prove the night was wrong now my days have crumbled to a few flesh and bone is all I have to show flesh and bone, the last one standing save a prayer for me tell the devil and Jesus the hand that was dealt to me I'm not alone, we're all just flesh and bone all we hold in this round world was born in the furnace of the sun split my soul across the universe, flesh and bone is all I'm leaving here flesh and bone, the last one standing sa a prayer for me tell the devil and Jesse James the hand that was dealt to me I'm not alone, we're all just flesh and bone really not alone, we're all just flesh and bone
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Wild Town 02:49
she don't need your sympathy, with a smile that swears she's winning the last game does all her drinking for free so much attitude on a ninety pound frame a headline waiting to happen thrown to the wind, alibis in the mail spinning like a leslie cabinet making the rent in one dollar bills her eyes shut this wild town down never hold a girl like her tears it up and runs it into the ground her eyes shut this wild town down lady of perpetual motion catholic sisters swore your love was a sin now she shakin' at the Tally - Ho spending every penny and you'll never get it back again her eyes shut this wild town down never hold a girl like her tears it up and runs it into the ground her eyes shut this wild town down
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Getaway Car 03:28
THE OLD MAN'S BEEN DRINKING AND MOMMA'S BEEN DRIVING HERSELF HOME ALONE MORE AND MORE BABY TUGGING AT HER BREAST AND THAT OL' DEVIL WON'T TAKE NO REST THE GODDAMN NEIGHBORS ALL KEEPING SCORE IT'S MOMMA'S BIRTHDAY OH BUT THE BILLS AIN'T PAID WE'LL SIT ALONE IN THE DARK "MAKE A PALLET BY THE SCREEN DOOR DEAR, TRY AND LET SOME COOL AIR IN HERE" LISTENING TO THE HIGHWAY ROLLING FAST AND I DREAM OF A GETAWAY CAR ONE WITH NO BRAKES OR PLATES DARK AND SWIFT WITHOUT A TRACE I'LL DRIVE IT OH SO FAR AWAY STRAIGHT INTO THE NIGHT I'M GONNA BURY IT ALL IN THE GLOW OF MY HEADLIGHTS THE TOWN PUMP'S AT THE EDGE OF TOWN THE WHORES CALL HIS NAME WHEN HE COMES AROUND THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND LIKE A MILLIONAIRE CRAWLS HOME ON HIS HANDS AND KNEES TO THREE HUNGRY MOUTHS TO FEED THEIR BELLY'S AS EMPTY AS THE FRIGIDAIRE AND I DREAM OF A GETAWAY CAR ONE WITH NO BRAKES OR PLATES DARK AND SWIFT WITHOUT A TRACE ONE WITH NO BRAKES OR PLATES DARK AND SWIFT WITHOUT A TRACE I'LL DRIVE IT OH SO FAR AWAY STRAIGHT INTO THE NIGHT I'M GONNA BURY IT ALL IN THE GLOW OF MY HEADLIGHTS
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Trampoline 03:30
blew the slide trombone in a six piece band in the gutter where the winners got blood on their hands working, working 'till the whole shake swings like a blind man jumping on a trampoline the small print is what the kid can't read and its hard, it's hard with your ass in the breeze working, working scuffling up your knees like a blind man jumping on a trampoline a ten dollar suit, a thirty dollar gig leaves Jackson to tighten your wig susie good pussy's gonna loosen the noose her head full of stitches and a Harley tattoo the sign on the door reads colors can be worn rich folks slumming get all they bargained for when safe across the tracks, I'll be sleeping in my car if you whistle the tune, put your cabbiage in the jar thirty-one nights in the month of may forty-nine jobs this bands gonna play working, working, pray your lips don't bleed ike a blind man jumping on a trampoline
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Widows Tears 01:12
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Sleepy Town 03:30
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Tag-Along 03:09
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released December 31, 2006

Michael O’Connor –All Guitars, Lap Steel, Harmonica, Melodeon, Omnichord, Vocals
Jack Saunders – Electric and Stand-Up Bass, Background Vocals
Rick Richards – Drums and Percussion
Richard Bowden – Violin, Mandolin

All Songs Written by Michael S. O’Connor except:
Off The Wagon Written by Michael S. O’Connor and Stephen Monk Wilson
Live Like The River Written by Michael S. O’Connor and Eleanor Whitmore

All Songs Verda Mae Music (ASCAP) Administered by Bug

Produced and Engineered by Jack Saunders at White Cat Recording Studio in Houston, TX whitecatproductions.com
 
Mastered by Jerry Tubb at Terra Nova Digital Audio, Inc., Austin, Texas

Photography by Winker – winkerwithaneye.com

Art Direction, Concept and Graphic Design by Charlotte Niemann, C3Creative

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Michael O'Connor Washington

Michael O'Connor is a guitarist, singer, & songwriter living in Washington State. A lifetime of hard-won experience has allowed Michael a rare insight into the world of the rough, the faithless, the romantic, and the unlucky, all of whom find refuge in his songs. ... more

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