Stompin Ground Lyrics

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  • Lafayette

    The FrenchBroad River runs long and deep down from the black mountain snow
    And every time that I get down hearted that’s where my mind will go
    Just a running deep and slow like I’m rocking away in your loving arms
    You can sweet-talk me when you do your duty, but please don’t you do no harm

    Lafayette, don’t ya make me beg
    S’il vous plais, I’ll be your rocking chair, I’ll be your guitar – play me
    Baby, let me follow you down to the river and drink

    Well, I have been all around the world from Amsterdam to Asheville
    But I never thought that I’d give up my freedom ’til I got tied up in the Delta
    I said no to the devil, but he paid no mind, Hallelujah, honey, you’re the loving kind
    If I had my way I’d keep your angel wings wrapped down around my thigh

    Lafayette, don’t ya make me beg
    S’il vous plais, I’ll be your ro cking chair, I’ll be your guitar – play me
    Baby, let me follow you down to the river and drink
    Baby, let me follow you down to the river and drink

    Lafayette, don’t ya make me beg
    S’il vous plais, I’ll be your hand me down, I’ll be your blue jean baby

    Oh, Lafayette, don’t ya go just yet
    I’ll be your Juliette, c’mon let’s stop talking

    Michelle Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)

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  • Two Horns and Two Wings

    I got a girl in Georgia and sheÕs waiting for me
    I got a girl who equally so evil and so sweet
    I been gone for thirty days and baby, I can’t wait to see
    That pretty little blue-eyed angel with two horns and two wings

    She hollers and she growls at me, she scratches and she bites
    God knows that I can get no sleep, she keeps me up all night
    I can’t wait to get home and make up with her after we fight
    That pretty little blue-eyed angel she knows just how to keep me in line

    When I stay at her house her cat sleeps on my head
    She don’t like to make room for me in her double bed
    But you know I pet that pretty kitty every chance I get
    That pretty little blue-eyed angel short tempered and long legged

    I’m running up my phone bill trying to get her on the line
    In between my work and sleep I’m calling all the time
    She finally picks it up to tell me she don’t have the time
    That pretty little blue-eyed angel she makes me want to cry

    Her thorny kisses scratch my neck, they make me feel so weak
    It’s like an ancient blood letting that heals me of dis-ease
    She makes love to me all night then tells me I need to leave
    That pretty little blue-eyed angel with two horns and two wings

    I’m driving as fast as I can to my sweet evil thing
    I’m passing all those semi truckers high on amphetamines
    I know that when I get there I’ll be a fly in her vasoline
    That pretty little blue-eyed angel with two horns and two wings

    Michelle Malone (Strange Bi rd Songs/ASCAP)

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  • Moanin’ Coat

    Blackbirds dot the sun like pinholes
    where the night shines through
    And I’m missing you
    Every time she cries I apologize
    I don’t know what else to do
    The sky is bruised and blushing
    Like a broken woman singing, “hush now”

    I wish that I could
    Oh, I wish that I could
    Wrap you up in my morning coat

    People rush around just like horses on a carousel
    Oh, and I don’t know why we fell out of love, but
    Boats out on the lake drift like buckets floating in a well
    and I’m Sinking down
    Tail lights start to flicker
    in the mirror and that’s all that she wrote

    I wish that I could
    Oh, I wish that I could
    Wrap you up in my morning coat

    I wish that I could (wrap you up)
    Oh, I wish that I could (wrap you up)
    Wrap you up in my morning coat (in my morning coat)

    Oh, I miss you and you know I’m sorry
    When I come home will you pick me up at the station
    The sky is falling, and I got nothing to show for all my time away and I miss you baby
    I played my card too soon, you know I’m missing you, missing you

    Michelle Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)

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  • Flagpole

    I see flags blowing like leaves
    Hanging on to skinny trees
    I hope that they don’t hit the ground
    Like burning stars showering down

    Silent questions in the air
    Confuse the puppet with the player
    A brotherhood with government

    Who gets the vote but don’t represent me

    Hold me, give me hope, hold me, don’t let go

    I see flags hanging like lights
    Casting shadows down tonight
    It’s hard to know just who to trust
    Focus groups don’t focus on us

    You have a wife and 2 small kids
    Six bucks an hour don’t make a dent
    When money talks to hear itself
    Change is made but it don’t help

    Hold me, give me hope, hold me, don’t let go

    Flagpole, run me up
    Flagpole, run me down
    Flagpole, run me up
    Don’t run me around, around, around

    Disenfranchised family
    Seeking help from agency
    That was shut down just recently
    The money’s in the middle east

    I wish that they could see the light
    But they’re too blinded by the glare
    of avarice and power and greed
    Stand tall skinny tree

    Flagpole, run me up
    Flagpole, run me down
    Flagpole, run me up
    Don’t run me around, around, around

    Michelle Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)

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  • Cypress Inn

    The TV’s on but the sound is down

    Well, It’s a summer water color world here now
    Bella, she’s down in the lobby playing tug of war with her daddy
    You should see them smile For the homesick traveler

    I dont unpack my suit case, it’s barely big enough to hold what I cannot say
    Pandora’s box would open up and swallow me whole today

    At the Cypress Inn trying to pretend
    that everything’s alright see my armor shine

    You hate to be alone, keep wishing I was home again
    I’m just picking up the pieces at the Cypress Inn

    Rosie came by late last night

    to sing a SONG and drink away these vagabond days
    “Damned if you do and if you don’t play the game, but this city
    is a beautiful place to sing some songs under the stars.”

    But me, I’m split in between the two – a longing to succeed and a simple life wi th you
    If it wasn’t for my wanderlust we could start a family

    At the Cypress Inn trying to pretend
    that everything’s alright see my armor shine

    You hate to be alone, keep wishing I was home again
    I’m just picking up the pieces at the Cypress Inn

    I’m in the middle of a fight between the darkness and a distant light
    I get so weary in the shadows and I plead, my god, show me a sign

    At the Cypress Inn trying to pretend
    that everything’s alright see my armor shine

    You hate to be alone, keep wishing I was home again
    I’m just picking up the pieces at the Cypress Inn

    Michelle Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)

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  • The Preacher’s Daughter

    I don’t know where I’m going, but I know where I been
    I got to keep moving, you know the road never ends
    My daddy keeps praying, my mama she cries
    Don’t you know that the preachers daughter got a long way to ride

    I was taught that the devil would come take my soul
    If I didn’t do just what my mama she told me
    But that was a long time ago, now I’m grown
    Don’t you know that the preacher’s daughter ran a long way from home

    Now I know that Jesus taught love and peace
    Like Buddha and Gandhi and Mohamed believed
    And I want to love you, please, baby please
    Can’t you see that the preacher’s daughter’s getting down on her knees

    Whenever I go back, go back to the fold
    Mama says that she loves me, and she prays for my soul
    I say mama don’t worry, but she disapproves
    Don’t you know that the preacher’s daughter got a long way to go

    I was taught that the devil would come take my soul
    If I didn’t do just what my mama she told me
    But that was a long time ago, now I’m grown
    Don’t you know that the preacher’s daughter ran a long way from home

    Michelle Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)

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  • Samsonite

    Your suitcase is sitting on my porch
    ‘been waiting there for you since 1994
    Every since you move d in with me and my mama and daddy
    You made me such a happy girl

    when you told me that you loved me on the tilt a whirl
    But every since our wedding day you been threatening to leave me

    I’m working at the diner to pay all of the bills
    I try to keep you in cologne and all your vitamin pills
    but nothing’s ever good enough

    Say goodbye, Samsonite

    You keep telling me you’re fed up, but then you want to make up
    Samsonite, Don’t make me cry anymore
    I’m getting kinda rusted cause my heart has gotten busted
    And I know that you got leaving on your mind all the time

    Mama said that I should try to be
    A little more patient , honey, wait and see
    Daddy said that I shouldn’t let you treat me like an open swinging door screen
    Honey, I love you like I did back then
    But it hurts me so, and I can’t pretend it don’t

    Matter to me anymore so I guess we better hire an attorney
    I bought you a ticket on the next gray hound
    headed down to Opelika, and I’m city bound
    cause you were never good enough

    Say goodbye, Samsonite

    You keep on telling me you’re leaving, babe, you best believe it
    Samsonite, Don’t make me cry anymore
    I’m feeling kinda relieved, cause I know you’re gonna leave me alone
    Now that I got leaving on my mind all the time

    Michelle Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)

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  • Snack-N-Shack

    We got a deep southern pocket With a 50 watt socket
    We go to town on Saturday We go to sleep on Sunday

    Got to get back, Got to get back, to the snack n shack

    No cop & no plea, I got a full battery
    You got a lamp, you better dim it
    And you can test my limits

    I got to get back, I got to get back to the snack n shack
    I got to get back, I got to get back to the snack n shack
    I took the train across the track
    just tryin’ to get back……ya’ll

    Michelle Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)

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  • Cry Me A River

    Monday I felt like an astronaut walking on the moon for the very first time
    I was feeling fine, I was ready to fly
    Tuesday I felt like I was racing time in the eco challenge, felt like I was dying
    On a mountain side, I wanted to cry

    Well, I cry me a river then I poke holes in my boat
    I try to deliver then I put sharks in my mote
    Go to cross the Sahara I poured out my water
    I’m lighting these fires and living on the wire

    Wednesday I felt like a little kid lost inside the mall, I needed you to tell me
    Everything’s ok, I want you to stay
    Thursday I felt like an animal locked inside a cage about to suffocate
    All that I could do was run away
    Well, I cry me a river then I poke holes in my boat
    I try to deliver then I put sharks in my mote
    Go to cross the Sahara I pour out my water
    I’m lighting these fires and living on the wire

    I don’t know why, I don’t know why
    I don’t know why I sabotage myself
    Leave me hanging out on the line
    Making happiness hard to find

    One day I’ll tire of wasting time
    lying on my back watching clouds roll by
    I’ll be ready to fly

    I don’t know why
    I don’t know why
    I don’t know why

    MIchelle Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)

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  • Camera

    Top down, chin up, sunshine, good luck – Just what I need
    Next turn, highway, coming your way – you’re just what I need
    This mean old world keeps chipping away at me
    I feel so lost like a lock without a key
    You flash that smile and I just have to laugh

    I want to take your photograph
    So I can make the moment last with you
    Let me be your camera
    Let me be your camera

    Sometimes I can’t say what I mean – I can’t get it out
    Sometimes I don’t mean what I say – I just spit it out
    Then you show me you love me like the way you do
    Let me drink from your Dixie cup until you’re through
    Now I’m coming home to you, my sweet sassafras

    I want to take your photograph
    So I can make the moment last with you
    Let me be your camera
    Let me be your camera

    I want to see your view
    I want to, but I don’t get the picture

    I want to take your photograph
    So I can make the moment last with you
    Let me be your camera
    Let me be your camera

    Top down, chin up, sunshine, good luck

    Michelle Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)

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  • Honeysuckle Lullaby

    I noticed you been feeling down, I know how the world can spin you around

    I don’t want you to keep feeling low, I want to help you let it go

    Let’s go out to see the big dipper shinning, Take a walk under the evergreens

    Lie my sleeping bag down, now, darling, C’mon dance a little dance with me

    I’ll be your honeysuckle lullaby, C’mon, let’s runaway tonight, Your honey suckle lullaby

    I know that you been working real hard, And nothing ever seem to come from it

    You may not see the fruits of your labor, It doesn’t mean that they don’t exist

    Let’s go out to feel the warm sun shinning, take you down to hear the river sing

    Lie my sleeping bag down, now, darling, C’mon let’s do what comes naturally (skin on skin)

    I’ll be your honeysuckle lullaby, C’mon, let’s runaway tonight, Your honey suckle lullaby

    and fly away, Let me free your mind

    Come fly away, let me be your kind

    I’ll be your umbrella in the rain, I’ll be your little pill when you got pain

    A cool drink of water when you get dry, (pause) I’ll be your honeysuckle lullaby

    Your honeysuckle lullaby, C’mon, let’s runaway tonight, Your honey suckle lullaby

    Michelle Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)

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  • True

    Take a simple song and sing a simple melody
    Don’t let no one tell you that you can’t sing
    Oh, it’s true

    Take a simple day and live it your own way
    Don’t let no one tell you that you can’t go your way
    Oh, it’s true

    Here comes your shadow
    Here comes your shadow
    Here comes your shadow

    Here comes your shadow chasing after you

    Take a simple love and grow it big as the sky above
    Don’t let anyone tell you who to love
    Oh, it’s true

    Here comes your shadow heading around the bend
    Here comes your shadow heading around the bend
    Here comes your shadow heading around the bend
    Here comes your shadow chasing after you

    Michelle Malone (Strange Bird Songs/ASCAP)

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