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Introduction
04:02
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Dead Ice
03:48
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The mummies walk through time and space
on their eternal flights.
I saw one just the other day,
no empire in sight.
His tattered linens lying out
like Hansel and Gretel's trail,
and at the end a naked king,
all solemn, cold, and bare.
I asked him why of all these worlds
he chooses this here strife.
He said he wants to find the price
of his eternal life.
And just as he was heading out,
he whispered in my ear.
"I have a final warning now.
Just for you to hear."
The dead ice is coming.
The dead ice is here.
The dead ice is coming
The dead ice is here.
Hazel's head is spinning 'round.
She's spitting out new nails.
I took them to the market place
and bought fuel by the pail.
I put it in my engine now
and went to see the priest.
He said that he could fix my friend
but for a modest feast.
He said that he wants just one nail
to hang upon his wall.
He's rising in the ranks you see.
He'll see you all next fall.
Hazel's head came spinning down
from off the pure white ceiling.
She said "I think I've figured out
exactly what you're feeling."
The dead ice is coming.
The dead ice is here.
The dead ice is coming
The dead ice is here.
The dead ice is coming.
The dead ice is here.
The dead ice is coming
The dead ice is here.
The dead ice is coming.
The dead ice is here.
The dead ice is coming
The dead ice is here.
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3. |
Reuben's Train
06:00
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Reuben had a train.
He went from England to Spain.
He never got no letters from his ma.
Oh me, oh Lordy my.
He never got no letters from his ma.
Well Reuben went to town
and the police shot him down.
You could hear the poor boy holler a hundred miles.
You could hear the poor boy holler.
You could hear the poor boy yell.
You could hear the poor boy holler a hundred miles.
Reuben had a wreck.
Lord, he broke his frickin' neck.
His poor body ain't never been found.
Well they found his head in the driver's wheel
about a mile and a half from town.
If you don't believe I'm gone
watch the train that I crawl on.
I'm 900 miles from my home.
I'm 900 miles from my wife and my child.
I wish I was 900 more.
If my lover tells me so
I won't moonshine no more.
I'll cut down that still and go home.
Oh me, oh Lordy my.
I'll cut down that still and go home.
Said the hobo to the bum
You got some cocaine give me some.
I believe great God I'm coming down.
Oh me, oh Lordy my.
I believe great God I'm coming down.
Well I took my razor blade,
I laid Reuben in the shade.
Going to start me a graveyard of my own.
Oh me, oh Lordy my.
Going to start me a graveyard of my own.
Oh me
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4. |
Jack Of Diamonds
04:16
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Well I played cards in England,
I gambled in Spain.
Going back to Rhode Island
for to play my last game.
Jack of Diamonds, Jack of Diamonds,
I've known you for old.
You robbed my poor pockets of silver and gold.
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5. |
Boat's Up The River
06:37
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Boat's up the river
and I won't come down.
Well I believe to my soul
that I'm waterbound.
Well I went down to that river
and I laid right down.
If the blues overtakes me
I'll jump in that river and drown.
I went down to that river,
laid my rocking chair.
If the blues overtakes me
I'll rock away from there.
Boat's up the river
and I won't come down.
Well I believe to my soul
that I'm waterbound.
I went down to that railway
and I lay on the track.
Let the passing freight train
roll and take me back.
Boat's up the river
and I won't come down.
Well I believe to my soul
that I'm waterbound.
If the river was whiskey
and I was a duck.
Well I'd sink to the bottom
and I'd never come up.
But that river ain't whiskey
and I ain't no duck.
Well I'll play on fiddle
and I'll keep testing my luck.
Boat's up the river
and I won't come down.
Well I believe to my soul
that I'm waterbound.
I believe to my soul
that I'm waterbound.
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6. |
Interlude
01:40
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7. |
I Do Not Know
05:36
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Why do I stand
out in the field
and ghost lights fly
from or’ the hills?
And up above
pitch blackness heals.
I thought the mountains
block out what kills.
I do not know
I do not know
where we’ll stand
as time goes slow.
You walk away
so graciously.
I do not know
I do not know.
I saw you sailing
out to sea
on wine-dark waves
and tattered leaves.
You fly so high
on your way 'round.
How can I catch you
on your way down?
I do not know
I do not know
where we’ll stand
as time goes slow.
You walk away
so graciously.
I do not know
I do not know.
I saw you playing
out in the field.
A wise young man
with a twisted beard.
Who’ll play the tunes
out by the pond?
I thought they said
you were dead and gone.
I do not know
I do not know
where we’ll stand
as time goes slow.
You walk away
so graciously.
I do not know
I do not know.
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8. |
Cold Mountains
04:05
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Cold mountains they are here around me.
Cold waters runnings through the streams.
Though in my sleep I think I found him,
but when I wake, it's but a dream.
True, when I wake and can not find him,
all on my bed I weep and moan.
Just like the raindrops without numbering
it's all because I'm left alone.
Oh I hate the time when I must leave you
Oh i hate the time when we must part.
Though I have loved you without measuring,
I'll give my hand, you have my heart.
Cold mountains they are here around me.
Cold waters runnings through the streams.
Though in my sleep I think I found him,
but when I wake, it's but a dream.
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9. |
Little Maggie
06:05
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Yonder stands little Maggie
with a dram glass in her hand.
She's drinking away her troubles.
She's courting some other man.
The last time I see little Maggie
She was standing at the banks of the sea
with a forty-four pistol around her
and a banjo on her knee.
I'm going down to the station
with a suitcase in each hand.
Little Maggie, you've been trouble.
I'm leaving fast as I can.
Pretty flowers were made for blooming.
Pretty stars were made to shine.
Little Maggie, I hope I'll love her
and I'll see her all the time.
Lord you know how much I hate it
not to see your true blue eyes.
They shine like diamonds in the moonlight,
like two stars in the sky.
Go away, go away little Maggie.
Go and do the best you can.
You can get you another woman
I can get me another man.
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10. |
O My Stars
06:45
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Kiss me once, oh, kiss me twice
Give me a taste of paradise
I don't need the blues always on my shoulder
They give me a cold feeling
Getting colder
O my stars how you undo me
O my stars
O my stars
You undo me
The sun's going down and the sky different colors
Baby run and see the different hues
I feel alright but these times are bad
Mama run here, help me with these blues
O my stars how you undo me
O my stars
O my stars
You undo me
You see that spider going up the wall?
He going up there, get his ashes hauled
He taking that trip along the mighty top
He learning them ladies the old spider rock
O my stars how you undo me
O my stars
O my stars
You undo me
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Benjamin Wetherbee Boston, Massachusetts
Old time music, singing, freaky fiddlin', and painting outta New England.
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