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Ain't No Good Thing Ever Dies

by Carrie Myers + The Proper Way

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1.
See That My Grave Is Kept Clean 02:53
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Well, there's one kind-a favor I'll ask of you Well, there's one kind-a favor I'll ask of you There's just one kind favor I'll ask of you You can see that my grave is kept clean And there's two white horses following me And there's two white horses following me I got two white horses following me Waiting on my burying ground Did you ever hear that coughin' sound? Did you ever hear that coughin' sound? Did you ever hear that coughin' sound? Means another poor boy is underground Did you ever hear them church bells tone? Have you ever hear that church bells tone? Did you ever hear them church bells tone? Means another poor boy is dead and gone And my heart stopped beating and my hands turned cold And my heart stopped beating and my hands turned cold And my heart stopped beating and my hands turned cold Now I believe what the Bible told There's just one last favor I'll ask of you And there's one last favor I'll ask of you There's just one last favor I'll ask of you See that my grave is kept clean
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Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis 04:14
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Hey Charlie I'm pregnant And living on 9th street Right above a dirty bookstore Off Euclid avenue I stopped taking dope I quit drinking whiskey My old man plays the trombone And works out at the track. He says that he loves me Even though its not his baby He says that he'll raise him up Like he would his own son And he gave me a ring Worn by his mother He takes me out dancing Every Saturday nite. Hey Charlie I think about you Every time I pass a filling station On account of all the grease You used to wear in your hair I still have that record Of little Anthony and the Imperials Someone stole my record player How do you like that? Hey Charlie I almost went crazy After Mario got busted So I went back to Omaha to live with my folks But everyone I used to know Was either dead or in prison So I came back to Minneapolis This time I think I'm gonna stay. Hey Charlie I think I'm happy For the first time since my accident And I wish I had all the money We used to spend on dope I'd buy me a used car lot I wouldn't sell any of'em I'd just drive a different car every day Depending on how I feel. Hey Charlie, for chrissakes Do you want to know the truth of it? I don't have a husband He don't play the trombone I need to borrow money to pay this lawyer And Charlie, hey I'll be eligible for parole come Valentine's day.
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Come On Up To The House 03:51
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Well the moon is broken And the sky is cracked Come on up to the house The only things that you can see Is all that you lack Come on up to the house All your cryin don't do no good Come on up to the house Come down off the cross We can use the wood Come on up to the house Come on up to the house Come on up to the house The world is not my home I'm just a passin thru Come on up to the house There's no light in the tunnel No irons in the fire Come on up to the house And your singin lead soprano In a junkman's choir You gotta come on up to the house Does life seem nasty, brutish and short Come on up to the house The seas are stormy And you can't find no port Come on up to the house There's nothin in the world Come on up to the house Come on up to the house The world is not my home I'm just a passin thru Come on up to the house There's nothin in the world that you can do you gotta come on up to the house and you been whipped by the forces that are inside you come on up to the house well you're high on top of your mountain of woe come on up to the house well you know you should surrender but you can't let go you gotta come on up to the house Come on up to the house Come on up to the house The world is not my home I'm just a passin thru Come on up to the house
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Dark Eyes 04:15
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Oh, the gentlemen are talking and the midnight moon is on the riverside They're drinking up and walking and it is time for me to slide I live in another world where life and death are memorized Where the earth is strung with lover's pearls and all I see are dark eyes. A cock is crowing far away and another soldier's deep in prayer Some mother's child has gone astray, she can't find him anywhere But I hear another rum beating for the dead that rise Whom nature's beast fear as they come and all I see are dark eyes. They tell me to be discreet for all intended purposes They tell me revenge is sweet, I'm sure it is But I feel nothing for their game, where beauty goes unrecognized All I feel is heat and flame, and all I see are dark eyes. Oh, the French girl, she's in paradise and a drunken man is at the wheel Hunger pays a heavy prize to the falling god of speed and steel Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes.
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Pony 06:51
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I've seen it all boys. I've been all over Been everywhere in the whole wide world. I rode the high line with old blind Darby. I danced real slow with Ida Jane. I was full of wonder when I left Murfreesboro Now I am full of hollow on Maxwell street. And I hope my Pony I hope my Pony I hope my Pony knows the way back home I walked from Natchez to Hushpukena I built a fire by the side of the road I worked for nothin in a Belzoni saw mill. I caught a blind out on the B and O Talullah's friendly Belzoni ain't so A 44'll get you 99 And I hope my Pony I hope my Pony I hope my Pony knows the way back home I run my race with burnt face Jake Gave him a Manzanita cross I lived on nothin but dreams and train smoke Somehow my watch and chain got lost. I wish I was home in Evelyn's Kitchen With old Gyp curled around my feet And I hope my Pony I hope my Pony I hope my Pony knows the way back home
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Oxford Town 01:30
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Oxford Town, Oxford Town Everybody's got their heads bowed down The sun don't shine above the ground Ain't a-goin' down to Oxford Town He went down to Oxford Town Guns and clubs followed him down All because his face was brown Better get away from Oxford Town Oxford Town around the bend Come to the door, he couldn't get in All because of the color of his skin What do you think about that, my friend? Me and my gal, my gal's son We got met with a tear gas bomb I don't even know why we come Goin' back where we come from Oxford Town in the afternoon Everybody singin' a sorrowful tune Two men died 'neath the Mississippi moon Somebody better investigate soon
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Man in the Long Black Coat 03:58
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Crickets are chirpin' the water is high There's a soft cotton dress on the line hangin' dry Window wide open African trees Bent over backwards from a hurricane breeze Not a word of goodbye not even a note She gone with the man in the long black coat Somebody seen him hangin' around At the old dance hall on the outskirts of town He looked into her eyes when she stopped him to ask If he wanted to dance he had a face like a mask Somebody said from the bible he'd quote There was dust on the man in the long black coat Preacher was talking there's a sermon he gave He said every man's conscience is vile and depraved You cannot depend on it to be your guide When it's you who must keep it satisfied It ain't easy to swallow it sticks in the throat She gave her heart to the man in the long black coat There are no mistakes in life some people say It is true sometimes you can see it that way But people don't live or die people just float She went with the man in the long black coat There's smoke on the water it's been there since June Tree trunks uprooted beneath the high crescent moon Feel the pulse and vibration and the rumbling force Somebody is out there beating on a dead horse She never said nothing there was nothing she wrote She gone with the man in the long black coat
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Meet Me in the Morning 04:37
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Meet me in the morning, 56th and Wabasha Meet me in the morning, 56th and Wabasha Honey, we could be in Kansas By time the snow begins to thaw They say the darkest hour is right before the dawn They say the darkest hour is right before the dawn But you wouldn’t know it by me Every day’s been darkness since you been gone Little rooster crowin’, there must be something on his mind Little rooster crowin’, there must be something on his mind Well, I feel just like that rooster Honey, ya treat me so unkind The birds are flyin’ low babe, honey I feel so exposed Well, the birds are flyin’ low babe, honey I feel so exposed Well now, I ain’t got any matches And the station doors are closed Well, I struggled through barbed wire, felt the hail fall from above Well, I struggled through barbed wire, felt the hail fall from above Well, you know I even outran the hound dogs Honey, you know I’ve earned your love Look at the sun sinkin’ like a ship Look at the sun sinkin’ like a ship Ain’t that just like my heart, babe When you kissed my lips?
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Take It with Me 04:15
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Phone's off the hook No one knows where we are It's a long time since I Drank champagne The ocean is blue As blue as your eyes I'm gonna take it with me When I go Old long since gone Now way back when We lived in Coney Island Ain't no good thing Ever dies I'm gonna take it with me When I go Far far away a train Whistle blows Wherever you're goin Wherever you've been Waving good bye at the end Of the day You're up and you're over And you're far away Always for you, and Forever yours It felt just like the old days We fell asleep on Beaula's porch I'm gonna take it with me When I go All broken down by The side of the road I was never more alive or Alone I've worn the faces off All the cards I'm gonna take it with me When I go Children are playing At the end of the day Strangers are singing On our lawn It's got to be more Than flesh and bone All that you're loved Is all you own In a land there's a town And in that town there's A house And in that house There's a woman And in that woman There's a hart I love I'm gonna take it With me when I go I'm gonna take it With me when I go
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One Last Look 06:35
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Let's watch the sun come up in another town Try our luck a little further down Leave the cards on the table Leave the bread on the plate Put your hand on the gearshift Put your foot off the brake And take one last look At the place that you are leaving Take one last look Oh take one last look At the place that you are leaving Take one last look I beg for something that the wind can carry The arrow points the way across the waiting prairie This car looks like it could give us a good run A choice to leave was a good one And take one last look At the place that you are leaving Take one last look Oh take one last look At the place that you are leaving Take one last look Let's look forward to the lights that are new The world is a ribbon of road for you All towns have churches and tire shops They put up speed limit signs and they hire cops I love to see the wind in your hair All we ever need we can get anywhere And take one last look At the place that you are leaving Take one last look Oh take one last look At the place that you are leaving Take one last look Oh take one last look Oh take one last look

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Carrie Myers and The Proper Way team up for collection of songs by Bob Dylan and Tom Waits.

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released October 16, 2018

Carrie Myers: vocals, ukulele
Scott Rogers: guitars, banjo, mandolin, melodica, bass, vocals
Shane Osguthorpe: piano, organ, vocals
Ryan Hawthorn: lap steep
Clinton Kirby: drums
Tony Scida: horns

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Carrie Myers joins forces with The Proper Way.

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