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Star Spangled Banner
01:37
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Going to Chicago
03:03
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Going to Chicago, see what I can find
Time has come for me to leave this town behind
Leave this town behind
Forget this town
Never gonna live in this Southern land
Find a better life on Lake Michigan
Where it's frozen
I love it when it's frozen
Just a short world away
to that place
where I wanna see
Somehow I believe
That city
Will show me what to be
INSTRUMENTAL BREAK
Going to Chicago, see what I can find
Find an Illinois girl to be mine
Wouldn't that be nice
Is it worth a try?
Going to Chicago, see what I can make
up there on that planet on the lake
See what I can make
Another planet
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California Sun Sets Past
02:38
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Only Us
04:36
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Clicky top pens left clicked
I hate it when you do that to me
You will see and you’ll suffer my wrath
When I punish you
Your underwear is left on the floor
I say that’s so unsanitary
Then she says “Oh shut up
You know that you do that too.”
B: She really knows me
She bests my score
She exploits my pet peeves
But it just makes me love her more
C: Saturday, it’s Saturday
Naked as can be from dawn to dusk
We can stay in bed all day
Loved and free and we are only us
What’s on Netflix that we haven’t seen
Nothing much worth watching
What’ll we do? I’ll give you
a nice foot massage
You always make my feet hurt more
You know nothing about my body
I respond “Oh shut up
You know that that’s not true”
B: I really know her
What’s hers is mine
Our love’s a slow burn
A light that always shines
C:
This feels so good
I never wanna put clothes on again
Then she says “But you have to,
The people at the bank would stare”
“Let them stare” I say with pride
“They’ll probably enjoy it”
Then she says “Oh shut up”
Then I say “I love you”
B: She really knows me
More than I can say
We’re here together
In our bed all the day
C:
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5. |
Folk Singing Blues
02:45
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I wanna be Woody Guthrie in the worst way
Travelling the country, hopping on the trains
But people don’t live like that no more
Now it’s only the stuff of legend, of that I’m sure
He would ride the day long then leave his train car
then come into a new town, only with his guitar
and play for the people there
people loved him almost everywhere
B: I feel the pull to travel and play throughout the land. There’s so much land to see.
But I keep sitting here and when I hear a train, it just tortures me
Here I sit, waiting out my time
wondering if I’ll ever get any further down the line
or whether I’ll just stay here sighin'
when I listen to Woody’s records, I can’t keep from cryin’
I wanna be a folk singer and play throughout the land
But I can’t pull the trigger, I got shaky hands
Maybe someday, I’ll walk out the door
But maybe folk singing isn’t possible anymore
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Make It
02:37
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Burn
04:33
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Step in these shoes
stuck to these streets
sweating in the night keeps my back on the bedsheets
Can’t make a move
Can’t make a sound
I got no life beyond the edge of this town
Well, I don’t know much but I’ve lived long enough to learn
That I’m just trying not to fade out before I get a chance to burn
Twenty five seems young
to feel so old
no truth to any of the stories I was told
What’s past is past,
Be present now,
I would live for the future if I only knew how
Nothing to fight for, nothing to earn
Trying not to fade out before I get a chance to burn
Go ahead and leave
You’ll be back
You won’t make it past the railroad tracks
Love is gone
Love is dead
You left a world-sized hole in my bed
I’ll never forget when you said the words
Said you didn’t wanna fade out before you got a chance to burn
Another year’s
gonna pass me by
I’ll just be here staring at the sky
And the stars and the moon
And the galaxies
Wondering what the night will show me
Will I ever find out what I’m worth?
Or will I just fade out before I get a chance to burn?
I don’t wanna fade out before I get a chance to burn.
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Autumn
03:47
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Married Yet Blues
01:55
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Well, feels like I’m the only one around
Only one around, I’m the only guy in town,
Feels like I’m the only one around
who’s still single as can be
Because it seems like everybody that I know
found a row to hoe, everybody that I know
Seems like everybody that I know
is getting married.
C: Well, I tell you it’s the scariest thing,
everybody’s looking for the ring.
What am I gonna do?
I got the I’m The Only One Who Isn’t Married Yet Blues
INSTRUMENTAL BREAK
Someday soon I’ll find another girl
Too big a world not to find another girl
Someday soon I’ll find another girl
and then I’m gonna reel her in
Cause one of these days I’m gonna marry her
Yes siree, sir, I’m gonna marry her
One of these days I’m gonna marry her
and then my real life can begin
C: Well, I tell you it’s the scariest thing,
when everybody’s living for the ring and it seems like the majority of your friends who are your age all seem to be getting married and settling down and having babies and posting the pictures of their weddings and their babies on the internet just to torture you [and since when was my generation grownup, I certainly don’t feel grown up, I’m certainly not a grownup, maybe that’s why I’m still single, but that still doesn’t answer the whole mass peer-marriage thing but I digress.]
Oh, what am I gonna do?
I got the I’m The Only One Who Isn’t Married Yet Blues
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Teepee V
02:48
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Freight Train
02:40
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Freight train, Freight train, run so fast
Freight train, Freight train, run so fast
Please don't tell what train I'm on
So they won't know which route I've gone
Freight train comin' round the bend
Freight train, freight train, gone again
One of these days turn that train around
Come on back to my hometown
When I am dead and in my grave
No more good times here I crave
Place the stones at my head and feet
Tell them all that I've gone to sleep
When I die, Lord, bury me deep
Down on shady Chestnut street
Then I can hear that old Number 9
As it rolls on down the line
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Only Remembered
04:04
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Faded away like the stars in the morning,
Losing their light in the glorious sun
Thus would we pass from this earth and its toiling,
Only remembered for what we have done.
Only remembered, only remembered,
Only remembered for what we have done;
Thus would we pass from this earth and its toiling,
Only remembered for what we have done.
Horses and men, plowshares and traces,
The line on the land and the light of the sun.
Season by season we mark nature's graces.
Only remembered for what we have done.
Only remembered, only remembered,
Only remembered for what we have done;
Season by season we mark nature's graces.
Only remembered for what we have done.
Only the truth that in life we have spoken,
Only the seeds that in life we have sown:
These will pass onwards when we are forgotten -
Only remembered for what we have done.
Who'll sing the anthems and who'll tell the story?
Will the line hold, will it scatter and run?
Shall we at last be united in glory -
Only remembered for what we have done?
Only remembered, only remembered,
Only remembered for what we have done;
Shall we at last be united in glory,
Only remembered for what we have done?
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16. |
Station Break
00:21
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(89.7 FM, WISU in Terre Haute, Indiana, home of the Vigo County School Corporation, Indiana State University, and the Queen City of the Wabash. It's 7:30.)
Ain't it nice pointsettas phlem, doubtful you I is you in Terre Haute, In the amazon. Home of the We Go Count the Shuls Corporation, In the Fanny State University, and the Queen Sitting of the Car Wash. It's 7:30.
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Will you wear white
Oh my dear, oh my dear
Will you wear white, Jenny Jenkins?
No I won't wear white
For the color's too bright
Chorus
I'll buy me a foldy-roldy, tildy-toldy
Seek-a-double, use-a-cozza roll to find me
Roll, Jenny Jenkins, roll
Will you wear green
Oh my dear, oh my dear
Will you wear green, Jenny Jenkins?
No, I won't wear green
It's a shame to be seen
[chorus]
Will you wear blue
Oh my dear, oh my dear
Will you wear blue, Jenny Jenkins?
No, I won't wear blue
For the color's too true
[chorus]
Will you wear yellow
Oh my dear, oh my dear
Will you wear yellow, Jenny Jenkins?
No, I won't wear yellow
For I'd never get a fellow
[chorus]
Will you wear brown
Oh my dear, oh my dear
Will you wear brown, Jenny Jenkins?
No, I won't wear brown
For I'd never get around
[chorus]
Will you wear beige
Oh my dear, oh my dear
Will you wear beige, Jenny Jenkins?
No, I won't wear beige
For it shows my age
[chorus]
Will you wear orange
Oh my dear, oh my dear
Will you wear orange, Jenny Jenkins?
No, orange I won't wear
And it rhymes so there
[chorus]
What will you wear?
Oh my dear, oh my dear
What will you wear, Jenny Jenkins?
Oh what do you care
If I just go bare
[chorus]
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Eli Van Sickel Indiana
Midwest acoustic folk guitar singer songwriting stuff. I post serious albums and fun experiments/demos on here. Give it a listen?
Eli Van Sickel recommends:
This is the Winter
by Yearbook Committee
A folk supergroup from my home town of Terre Haute, IN. Feel-good and poignant, their music has been heard all over the United States, including at SXSW. Great people, great music.
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The newest release by the classical artist uses harp, guitar, and field recordings to set the tone of the album.
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The Room
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featured on Bandcamp Radio Jan 9, 2024
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