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$69GUITAR!

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1.
I've got a sack and a stick and a stiff pair of boots Sure don't like shavin' I stay true to my roots Some people think I'm dirty but that's just a little bit of dust The fillings in my mouth have started to rust I don't live on the street but I sleep on the ground A campfire is my living room and the world is my town Don't call me a bum, I'm a hobo Not looking for a handout just a place to lay low I don't steal I borrow and I'll lend you a hand I ain't afraid of workin' but I won't if I can I live by the skills that I learned as a scout My friends are the people who don't kick me out We get our vigor from the simplest of means Like bacon and jerky cupcakes and beans These clothes aren't the cleanest but at least I don't stink 'Cause I've got a rag and I can find me a sink So, don't call me a bum, I'm a hobo Not looking for a handout just a place to lay low I don't steal I borrow and I'll lend you a hand I ain't afraid of workin' but I won't if I can
2.
There once was a time when I didn't need liquor didn't need whiskey or gin But now that she's dead I'm drinkin' in bed I'm drinkin', I'm drinkin' again I'm here at the Leaning J bar and I don't recall parking my car It's been a whole week and I haven't had sleep and I'm drinking 'cause I'm not where you are My mind is swimming in the beer and the things that I think just aren't clear It's been 20 days and I'm in a slight craze and I'm drinking 'cause I don't have you near There once was a time when I didn't need liquor didn't need whiskey or gin But now that she's dead I'm drinkin' in bed I'm drinkin', I'm drinkin' again
3.
I showed up at St. Mary's in 1979 in the seat of a county that was named after and assinated President Momma always said I was her little angel her own little slice of heaven My daddy, he'd out be hanging with the roughnecks drinking at the Chapter 7 It was four in the morning after 18 hours of pushing it through the rain My granddaddy burst through the barroom door yelling out my last name He said Fielder! Where you at boy? You're having a baby! You'd better get your ass to the hospital!
4.
We liked to study the Bible in her bedroom one tiny piece of torn out page at a time In a month we burnt through the book of Revelations and every night we drank the blood of Christ With those onion skin leaves on a cozy winter evening Rainbows and rugburns for us both What the church may shun us for will not stray us from the Lord As Jah will provide, Gideon promotes We'd laugh and dance to songs we remembered reading aloud from the Old Testament Puffing like a chimney in November, yearning for each other's full consent Those onion skin leaves on a cozy winter evening causing rainbows and rugburns for us both What the church may shun us for will not stray us from the Lord For as Jah will provide, Gideon promotes We liked to study the Bible in her bedroom one tiny piece of torn out page at a time In a month we burnt through the book of Revelations and every night we drank the blood of Christ
5.
Piano lessons when I was nine played the trumpet in junior high and then this guitar came along and all I want to do is sing these songs My mother sick and I didn't know it My brother he don't know how to show it when his feelings take control and I'm the one who feels it in my soul I learned quick to fight the tears Been doing that for 30 years and now the whiskey starts to flow Who needs a reason when you know? Piano lessons when I was nine played the trumpet in junior high and then this guitar came along and all I want to do is sing these songs
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Square bottle, square bottle For too long you've known my name Square bottle, square bottle I have drank you just the same Square bottle, square bottle Make me do bad things at night Square bottle, square bottle What makes you give me the right To be a son of a bitch I need beat with a switch Loosing all control of myself With my drunkard's eye Make my lady cry I can't afford to die in such good health Lung choker, lung choker For too long you've had my brain Lung choker, lung choker I have broke you up and rolled you up and smoked you up all just the same Lung choker, lung choker How do you make me believe? Lung choker, lung choker For someday I can leave But I'm a son of a bitch I need beat with a switch Loosing all control of myself With my drunkard's eye Make my lady cry I can't afford to die in such good health

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recorded by Steve Boaz at Breathing Rhythm Studios in Norman, OK
mastered by Garrett Haines at Treelady Studios in Turtle Creek, PA

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released September 5, 2014

Brad Fielder - guitars, vocals
Kelly Stevens - drums, background vocals
Sam Deskin - bass, background vocals
David Wilson-Burns - tuba, piano, tambourine, background vocals

cover art by Carl Fielder
all songs written by Bradley Allan Fielder BMI

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American music from Oklahoma

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