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Cletus Got Shot

by Cletus Got Shot

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1.
She's a high class woman who walks the streets at night. She dont ask for money just your heart and soul. Well her makeup hides her pain as the streets call out her name. She stans on that street for all the boys to see. If you want my advice, boy, Stay away from her, 'cause she don't take cash... Just your heart and soul. She's wearing her bright red dress for you tonight. That red dress, still stained, with blood from the past. If you want my advice, boy, stay away from her, 'cause she don't take cash, just your blood and tears. She's a high class woman who walks the streets at night. She dont ask for money just your heart and soul.
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Working Man 02:52
Here's to the working man: the man without a song. Just the daily ring of a hammer fit for two. Well he breaks his back 'most every day just for some man to say, "Give me your payment due, your hands are my hands, too." Poor man rise up! I know your day is long and hard. Poor man rise up! 'Cause your place is here and now. Well time is running short, for a world that's running long. One day when your voice is heard this nation will finally know. Broken, and beaten down, that they are nothing without you. Your voice will spread heart to heart. This Union will never part. This fight waged by the Man, will end when the poor man stands. your hands are my hands, too." Poor man rise up! I know your day is long and hard. Poor man rise up! 'Cause your place is here and now. Well time is running short, for a world that's running long.
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Kentucky 06:14
Kentucky, my sweet gal, please don't forget me, 'cause I'll see you soon. Well the moonlight it shines down and draws close to you from two states away. Then the knife well it slips through the cold dark hands and misery. I'll never forget that night with you kickin and screaming all night long. I paid my respects, and I did my time for you, but now you're gone... lord, I'll see you soon. Well the judge he slipped me a deal: ninety years in the pen to never see you again. But you've been on my mind for the past three years. Won't you say your goodbyes, 'cause I'm coming for you. I'll never forget that night with you kickin and screaming all night long. I paid my respects, and I did my time for you, but now you're gone... lord, I'll see you soon. Kentucky, my sweet gal, please don't forget me.. 'cause I'll see you soon.
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These cotton fields are taking it's toll. It's two souls down and more to got. My hands are bleeding my heart is aching, lord, lord, lord. Well this river is rising five feet tall I hear "tap, tap, tap" at my front door. I take my two little boys and float down the river well it's, lord, lord, lord. Well it's, lord, lord, lord, make this day go by. Well it's, lord, lord, lord, just a one more day so we could sing hallelujah hallelujah well this rose is gonna bloom on me lord, lord, lord. I made a dollar here and a nickel there working dawn from dusk and day to day but food on the table and a roof overhead and it's all we need. Well it's all we need to make this day go by well it's all we need just a one more day so we could sing hallelujah hallelujah this rose is gonna bloom on me lord, lord, lord I light the candlesticks as the sun goes down take my two little boys and gather 'round we sing songs of joy we sing songs of pain and it's all we need. Well it's all we need to make this day go by. Well it's all we need just a one more day so we could sing hallelujah hallelujah well rose is gonna bloom on me one day well lord, lord, lord
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Well I'm driving hard and I'm driving mean, driving anything fast just to get away from you, get away from you. And I'm going through the city my foot on the pedal ain't never going back no never going back for you no, not for you. 'Cause that ring around my finger isn't getting any tighter now and them balls around my heart can't hold me down. Well I love 'em, and I leave 'em. I leave their broken hearts sitting next to the the bottles I left them last night. Well she begged me please to bring that love and turn around and come on back to her, on back to her. Well I was going through the city my foot on the pedal ain't never going back no never going back for you no, not for you. 'Cause that ring around my finger isn't getting any tighter now and them balls around my heart can't hold me down. Well I love 'em, and I leave 'em. I leave their broken hearts sitting next to the the bottles I left them last night.
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Blind Love 04:09
It was a trainwreck of silence bustin' in my door on a Saturday night. They always told me I'd find the one to hold me close at night, but they never told me how it ends Blind love from the blind side, the dark side of the moon a neverending dead end road I would give anything just to have my arms around you see you smile at me one last time on that dead end road. Good times, we had a few she even tried to hold my hand when we saw that band. Sometimes, well she'd smile and laugh with me, but it didn't last long. I don't know why you can't be with me And I don't know why you say the things you say. I tried my hardest to bring you back to me, but baby this time I'm gone. Blind love from the blind side, the dark side of the moon a neverending dead end road I would give anything just to have my arms around you see you smile at me one last time on that dead end road.
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Well music today ain't what it used to be from country to punk rock, the same. Good Charlotte plays too many chords and Toby Keith couldn't cry in his beer. Heard a song on the radio I didn't know and they called it hit number one. I shook my head and I turned it off and now I got a hole in my dash, 'Cause I'm a punk rock kid in a country band singing songs to the honky tonk crowd Well I play it real loud and I sing it real proud 'cause I know that punk rock is dead. My daddy grew up in them good ol' days when they played on them silver strings. When they shot them guns and they drove them trucks, and, yes, they cried in their beers. Willie, Hank, and old Johnny Cash are rebels, just the same Even though they wore that cowboy hot well they're more punk rock than me. 'Cause I'm a punk rock kid in a country band singing songs to the honky tonk crowd Well I play it real loud and I sing it real proud 'cause I know that punk rock is dead.
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Chains 03:39
I'm gonna take these chains and roll, take these chains and roll on down the line. Just give me a .45 and a bottle of gin and I'm outta here. Well that sun is going down on that chain gang south of town 'cause, baby, I'm gonna make it outta here. And that cop is looking down from that horse he saddled up 'cause, baby, I'm gonna make it outta here. Well I picked up my pride that was laying on the ground I took that sheriff's gun pointed straight at his head 'cause I'm gonna make it outta here. Well I'm running, running, I'm gonna make it outta here. Well I'm running, running, I'm gonna make it outta here. I'm gonna take these chains and roll, take these chains and roll on down the line. Just give me a .45 and a bottle of gin and I'm outta here.
9.
There she was, her silhouette standing in that doorway looking back at me and I said, "ooooh." I thought I got away 'cause I was outside but, lord, would you know it, she was right beside And I said, "ooooh." Well it's goodbye my baby hey little baby, goodbye. Made it to the truck thought I was home, home free. There she was, and I said, "ooooh." Well it's goodbye my baby hey little baby, goodbye.
10.
Burn it Down 02:47
She was wearing her high heeled pointy boots here long legs pointed right at me. It was all I could do to keep from cryin' when her short skirt raised to praise the lord. Me and her went out to raise some hell all over town we rang them bells with the throttle pulled back and our hearts on fire we sang a song of our desire. Well it's you and me 'til kingdom saddle them boys and fire up the band it's you and me going out on the town gonna tear it up, gonna light it up, gonna burn it down. Her ma and pa slapped me silly and kicked my ass outta town. But I came back for my baby and burned it all to the ground. Well it's you and me 'til kingdom saddle them boys and fire up the band it's you and me going out on the town gonna tear it up, gonna light it up, gonna burn it down. Gonna burn, gonna burn, gonna burn it down.
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Float Away 02:44
I took that girl to the South Fourche River led her on out of Danville town. A dram of poison in her glass I did give her and I watched her body float on down. Float away, my lovely bride drifing on that river wide. Float away, down to the sea for this awful thing you done to me. I lost my leg in march of sixty four a bullet from a damn yankee. and then I found you married to that man a big plantation owner's son. When I'm done with you I'm gonna get him if I can ride him down if he cuts and runs. I took that girl to the South Fourche River led her on out of Danville town. A dram of poison in her glass I did give her and I watched her body float on down. Float away, my lovely bride drifing on that river wide. Float away, down to the sea for this awful thing you done to me.
12.
Jaime Lee 03:22
There she was, a silhouette in the doorway looking back at me. Why can't you go, why can't you stay, why can't you leave? She was yelling and sreaming all over the house throwing things at me. Goodbye Jaime Lee, goodbye. It was you not me so baby don't feel to bad. well you played me over once and I know you'll try to do it again this time, baby, well it's goodbye. Grabbed my shirt and my favorite jeans stepped away from her. Why can't you go, why can't you stay, why can't you leave? And I was headed straight for the front door when she stopped my and said please don't go, come back and stay with me. Goodbye my baby goodbye my baby, goodbye, well baby, goodbye. Goodbye Jaime Lee, goodbye. It was you not me so baby don't feel to bad. Well you played me over once and I know you'll try to do it again this time, baby, well it's goodbye.
13.
This bar's not as fun as it used to be I said this bar's not as fun as it used to be. I got in one too many fights and one too many beers, well this bar's not as fun as it used to be. So give me one more round at the bar, and give me one more beer for me, just give me one last chance so I can say goodbye. Well my fist it starts to shake and my heart, it starts to break, when I get a couple of beers for the night.So give me one more round at the bar, and give me one more beer for me, just give me one last chance so I can say goodbye.
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Project 14 03:06
I feel alone in a crowded room whispers of a past gone by eyes to the wall, my feet to the floor praying for a friend to help me out. Then the face to my right comes alive reaches for the hand in my soul. Get up off your feet and sing with me, life's too short to let it pass you by. We stand at the edge of the world another friend he stands at our side our minds clear as rain and steady like the wind, our voices fill the sky as one. Just remember when you're looking around that around, well it's looking at you. 'Cause when you cut it to it's core we're all looking for a friend to help us out.

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The first album from Arkansas based acoustic/punk group Cletus Got Shot. Features all original tunes written and performed by Cletus Got Shot.

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released March 1, 2009

All songs written and performed by Cletus Got Shot.

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