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From the album "Forward In The Saddle" (2021)
For Merle Haggard, Guy Clark, Tom Petty, Prince Rogers Nelson, Aretha Franklin, David Bowie, John Prine, Charley Pride, Glen Campbell, George Martin, Billy Joe Shaver, Jerry Jeff Walker, Bill Withers, Dr. Ralph Stanley, Jean Shepard, Leonard Cohen, Gregg Allman, Butch Trucks, Otis Rush, Little Richard, Eddie Van Halen, James Cotton, Hal Blaine, Dick Dale, Don Williams, Fats Domino, Glenn Frey, Chuck Berry, Chris Cornell, Sonny James, Justin Townes Earle, Bill Withers, Jimmie Rodgers, Peter Green, Johnny Mandel, Toots Hibbert, Mac Davis
And many more we lost during the creation of this record
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hand to God, it's been raining from a blue sky
our hearts already broken before they told us why
it's not every day we stand and watch a legend fell
but after you are there any legends left at all
it's hard finding ways to push that pain along
haunted by so much that just don't feel gone
i can hear you telling jokes and lies, laughing just outside
that's the hardest part most days, the best part sometimes
this damn ol' life surely was the death of you
and all be damned if it don't believe it's coming for me too
if you can't live clean at least be kind, we'll stay by you at the end
travel light, adios old friend
good life comes from hard living, that's the asking price
folks who take the bad roads give the best advice
don't trust the man who tells you life is easy, neat or fine
just because he never took a step across the line
now the Lord is mighty good to bless the ones who mourn
for we're bound to bury many more than we ever will see born
let love live on in the songs we leave behind
only folks who get forgotten ever truly die
(this damn ol' life surely was the death of you...)
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released February 24, 2021
Music by Blake Abbott & Dan Fields
Lyrics by Dan Fields
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