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1.
Primroses Of Spring 04:20
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Fresh was the morning Winter gone over the rise Through woodland we roamed So much for our eyes Birds gathering sticks So busy on the wing Before we beheld Primroses of spring Felt a world away Felt a world away Well something held us there And we couldn't break away Across the whole hillside A beautiful display Beyond beaten tracks Above and looking over everything All about and around Primroses of spring Felt a world away Felt a world away In this humdrum town The traffic and the buzzing brings us down In this bedsit room Four walls summon up no tunes This town, just down This room, no tune Long we remembered And now we return Through the brambles and the briar Through the bracken and the fern High on a hill Larks come to dance and to sing Young lovers once more Primroses of spring Young lovers once more Primroses of spring Feel a world away Feel a world away...
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Railroad Earth 04:20
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Roll ups mashed in the soil Work gloves lay in pools of oil Artisans of endless toil Enemy of all that spoils All aboard, all aboard this railroad earth Pull something off the shelf Take and make it something else You may just surprise yourself When you work those brain cells All aboard, all aboard this railroad earth All aboard, all aboard this railroad earth Trundling hobo, grey stone valley The clock is ticking ticking on Spruce and pine, coal back alleys The clock is ticking ticking on Got a load on this one, needs a-lugging Trundling hobo, grey stone valley The clock is ticking ticking on Spruce and pine, coal back alleys The clock is ticking ticking on Got a load on this one, needs a-lugging To those good folk the engineers To those good folk of boundless cheer In times of trouble they appear Day in day out, year after year All aboard, all aboard this railroad earth All aboard, all aboard this railroad earth All aboard, all aboard this railroad earth All aboard, all aboard this railroad earth
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Handrails 04:03
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Handrails for the first time It's such a slippery slope Creaking and groaning, viewing all the world Through a kaleidoscope These pills seem to soften up the blows Soften any friction But it must mean I'm overdoing my prescription I don't know where I'm going Before I begin Rolling and tumbling like an empty beer can Bucking in the wind This rattling dance has got me on the road Seeing out the miles Greeting those looks I get With a silver buckle smile Amigo mucker, my good friend How the years have changed us Buddy, old pal, my good friend Caught us up and chained us How times have turned tail on us Hammered another nail in us Quick to the exit! I heard it on the news It's all gonna blow Quick to the exit! I heard it on the news On my wind-up radio How many times we gotta hear this, I don't know It's that same old same old same old Worst case scenario Amigo mucker, my good friend How the years have changed us Buddy, old pal, my good friend Caught us up and chained us How times have turned tail on us Hammered another nail in us Handrails for the first time It's such a slippery slope Creaking and groaning, viewing all the world Through a kaleidoscope
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Crazies 04:01
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A do nothing day What can compare? Sitting out front In my rocking chair Watching all the crazies Doing their crazy things If I had the guts All would be left behind Caught up in a vortex Vortex of the mind Everything's a tangle Everything is a swirl Everything's a tangle Everything is a swirl Days to make it easy Days to ease the mind Now dust ridicules Wages me poor Shouters down the phone Crazies at the door Hope that they don't see me And ruin everything I'm trying to peace out here Just trouble they bring Days to make it easy Days to ease the mind Days to make it easy Days to ease the mind
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Bo Traveller 02:51
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Bo Traveller Lost along the way Like pine martens Searching endlessly Bo Traveller Fear not in thee Bo Traveller To the road enslaved Blind waves crashing Up against the rocks Bo Traveller Feet are on the blocks Call that never stops Head above the grind Get yourself a new shoeshine Bo Traveller See him pushing through Like a man on fire Like a man with grit Bo Traveller Always gets the gig No job's too big Head above the grind Get yourself a new shoeshine Let it all begin Balls out in the wind Balls out in the wind Put your dirty mind in the bin It's just an old explorer thing Bo Traveller Lost along the way Like pine martens Searching endlessly Bo Traveller Fear not in thee Fear not in thee Searching endlessly
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Go Down Slow 03:01
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Elongated figures in the mist Dog at a lamp post taking a piss Along somewhere street in a nebulous glow I don't know, we can go down slow Commuters crowd the station stands Zigzagging journey, ranks of white vans Newspaper unfurls and away it blows I don't know, we can go down slow Newspaper unfurls and away it blows I don't know, we can go down slow In cafe Madrid The coffee pot flipped it's lid A constant battle, dark versus light People smart and savvy It's a demolition Derby Got to find a place where it all feels right Bicycle bells, get out the way A red hat on a woman screams against this world of grey And we turn direction into the flow I don't know, we can go down slow And we turn direction into the flow I don't know, we can go down slow
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I Still Feel The Rain 03:51
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Every time I think of you Those can't sleep nights Why did you change? It's a pain to remember But I can't stop its flight Why come on so strange? Still got your song stuck in my head and I still sing it in vain Every time I think of you However hard I try I still feel the rain Every road I'm kicking over Blinded by the sun Shadows growing long Feels like a hollow goal And a song that feels all wrong Where have you gone? The day that you came by my way Look at what remains Every time I think of you However hard I try I still feel the rain Days I loved you dearly Now some fools regret Now I see more clearly I should just try to forget For every time I think of you However hard I try I still feel the rain I still feel the rain Every time I think of you However hard I try I still feel the rain
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Goings On 04:32
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Seen the quack Ten toes up on his back He was smoking crack Muttering gibberish Wanted to be saved From black-suited waves I'm a workaday slave who raves In pidgin English The big eyes whine 'Don't forget the deadline You've a poet's mind But you're no Coleridge' In Xanadu A bum in broken shoes I've paid my dues Served up cold porridge Goings on Backroom wrongs that pay and pay Half my life Half my life trying to get away Goings on Backroom wrongs that pay and pay Half my life Half my life trying to get away Lulled by sirens and blue flashing lights I see and hear them in my dreams Squalor hotels and those dirty creep joints It's enough to make me and anybody scream Still got time Something buzzing my mind A different line Don't know what it is Voodoo, the knife The politician's wife Rumours are rife Something in it? Goings on Backroom wrongs that pay and pay Half my life Half my life trying to get away Goings on Backroom wrongs that pay and pay Half my life Half my life trying to get away
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Smoke 04:28
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Down through Market Square Down through Market Square, I'm dreaming It's the morning beat It's the morning beat I'm feeling Van doors slam awakening the neighbourhood Please go slow, unsuitable for heavy goods Got the blues again Got the blues again, I'm reeling Hard times ahead Hard times ahead revealing Wait around for someone to say 'Sorry son, no work here for you today Be gone and don't delay Hey, maybe tomorrow' Oh, something's lost along the way Oh, drifting like smoke through the day Misty jagged lines Misty jagged lines I'm walking Got to get that feeling down Got to get that feeling down, jive talking 'Free yourself, you're living in the past' I know that now but how? I'm stuck fast Running up the mast Freak flag flying Oh, something's lost along the way Oh, drifting like smoke through the day Oh, something's lost along the way Oh, drifting like smoke through the day Down through Market Square Down through Market Square, I'm dreaming
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Quiet Prayer 03:17
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Spin the plastic Captain Fantastic All those years, a musical age So good it got you 'til it started not to Time to turn another page Go put yourself back on that shelf Hard to leave it all behind Circles turning, whirlpools churning These are messed up times Old dance halls, mirror balls Within those walls you were the man The groovy news with kung fu moves Like Jean-Claude Van Damme Old dance halls, mirror balls Within those walls you were the man The groovy news with kung fu moves Like Jean-Claude Van Damme Cold pianos, old sopranos So few out here now that care Another night gone, leave a light on And say a quiet prayer And say a quiet prayer And hold on to that fading star You've still to travel far Another night gone, leave a light on And say a quiet prayer Another night gone, leave a light on And say a quiet prayer
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In The Spin 04:13
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Gave up on the long drag Smog was bringing me down Got a dog in a purple bandana That's quit following me around 'Cause I keep running running round in circles In a life so full of cares I'm too long in the spin Don't know when it all began When it became so real Suppose when I started to play Things inside I didn't feel And I keep running running round in circles In a life so full of cares I'm too long in the spin And I keep running running round in circles In a life so full of cares I'm too long in the spin Too damn old to be tripping Getting cynical in song Thought it was a phase going through But it's gone on far too long And I keep running running round in circles In a life so full of cares I'm too long in the spin I'm too long in the spin I'm too long in the spin And I keep running running round in circles In a life so full of cares I'm too long in the spin I'm too long in the spin I'm too long in the spin
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Raggy Old Crow 03:57
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Raggy old crow wondering at me Wondering at me, wondering at me Raggy old crow wondering at me Wondering at me, wondering at me As I sat down under a jack pine tree, jack pine tree As I sat down under a jack pine tree, jack pine tree Other birds warn when I'm near But you look around with no fear Just the bag we're both in Raggy old crow I, I do believe, I do believe Now is the time I must take my leave, I must take my leave Orange Mountain where I take the view, where I take the view New perspective seeing what you do When it's all too rushed to dream A pebble in a rapid stream Becomes the point to realise Raggy old crow I, I do believe, I do believe Now is the time I must take my leave, I must take my leave Raggy old crow I, I do believe, I do believe Now is the time I must take my leave, I must take my leave Raggy old crow wondering at me Wondering at me, wondering at me Raggy old crow wondering at me Wondering at me, wondering at me
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Country Haze 03:52
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I like to walk with you Where magnolia's blooming Down by the river side Evening breezes roaming Country haze Sunshine through the trees Country daze Set my mind at ease Well heaven help the state I'm in You're really crazy But I love wasting time Because you amaze me It's all wrong Said you felt lazy Walking along Meadow so free I know it's too weird to Be what we claim to be I know it's too weird to Be what we claim to be Now see the twilight colours Vividly they glow On a wondrous canvas You know, like Michelangelo Country haze Moonlight through the trees Country daze Set my mind at ease I think I got the song Before it's all gone away I think I got the song Before it's all gone I think I got the song Before it's all gone away

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released December 1, 2023

All words and music Michael Davies and Paul Ivor Jones

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Jumbotown is the acoustic singer songwriting duo of Mike Davies and Paul Ivor Jones

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