Name: Trucks and Trains, Bad Luck and Blues
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Description: dedicated to Justin Townes Earle - and all of the restless ones gone too soon

Trucks and Trains, Bad Luck and Blues

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dedicated to Justin Townes Earle - and all of the restless ones gone too soon

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Trucks and Trains, Bad Luck and Blues

my daddy was a driver and my momma dear
she was born in Louisiana don’t know how she got up here
trucks and trains bad luck and blues
a suitcase and a ticket to a life that we choose

my parents brought me along
driving home with an old country song
trucks and trains bad luck and blues
life is hell with the devil we choose

working every day at the grocery store
been working every day since I got back from the war
the people they come with their own shopping bags
dressed in fine clothes but they might as well be rags

the first time I seen little Saro
she was sitting on the banks of the sea
forty four strapped around her
a banjo on her knee

she did things her own way
like singing at the sink at the end of the day
we were tired we were ragged I think that we were pure
thought we knew it all didn’t care for being sure

our roots grow down in the earth
it’s hard to know what the past is worth
my parents brought me along
driving home with an a.m. country song

the past is calling us home
but sometimes its better to leave that place alone
trucks and trains bad luck and blues
you can walk away from any thing that you choose

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from Trucks and Trains, Bad Luck and Blues, released October 26, 2020

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Dan Johnson Burlington, Vermont

low key folk music - (how many?) records, a few (dozen?) years worth of weird gigs, no pressure y'all... did shows with some great folks and I just love country bluegrass and any kinda folk song mostly...

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