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Have you seen the pelicans
Taking flight at dusk?
Winging past an oil rig’s
Giant rusted husk
Wonder what they know and what
They do each day
Wishing you could ask them but
They just fly away
Welcome to the Gulf
Took a boat out to Galveston
With a distant friend
Cut the engine and we drifted
Then doubled back again
Sunshine on the water
A bright line of light
Shrinking back, growing dim
Giving way to night
He said
welcome to the Gulf
Look out toward open ocean
Sometimes you see it there
Be warned, it may disappear
If you stop and stare
A giant ship is floating
Untouched by any wave
Like an old god from ancient times
reaching down to save
Welcome to the Gulf
Hard to tell how deep it goes
though it’s shallow here
Something down below the surface
Moving slowly near
They still talk about the hurricane
Wiped a town away
Could that destruction be visited again?
It’s hard to say
Welcome to the Gulf
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Tahlequah
03:19
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Morning fog on the highway
gonna be November soon
ain’t seen anywhere that looks like home
since about the first of June
Got a full load
and some tricky brakes
praying to the patron saint of making mistakes
lately I’ve been thinking
time for letting go
Letting go
letting go
time for letting go
come on, it’s such a joy
come on, it’s such a joy
letting go
Stones in my passway
and it’s dark as hell
looking for the safe path through the storm
it’s too dark to tell
Won’t somebody hear me
hear my lonely cry
got these burdens to turn loose of
sure don’t want to die
Letting go
letting go
time for letting go
come on, it’s such a joy
come on, it’s such a joy
letting go
Don’t need more bad news
don’t need a fight
I don’t need nothing more to bring me down
just looking for light
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St. James Infirmary
04:46
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Folks, I'm goin' down to St. James Infirmary
See my baby there;
She's stretched out on a long, white table
She's so beautiful, so cold, so fair
Let her go, let her go, oh bless her
Wherever she may be
She will search this wide world over
But she'll never find another sweet man like me
Now, when I die, bury me in my straight-leg britches
Put on a box-back coat and a Stetson hat
Put a twenty-dollar gold piece on my watch chain
So you can let all the boys know I died standing pat
Give me six craps-shooting pallbearers
Let a chorus girl sing me a song
Put a red hot jazz band at the top of my head
So we can raise Hallelujah as we go along
Folks, now that you have heard my story
Say, boy, hand me over another shot of that hooch;
If anyone should ask you
You just tell 'em I've got those St. James Infirmary blues
Sometimes I feel
Sometimes I feel
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
A long way from home
Sometimes I feel
Sometimes I feel
Sometimes I feel like I'm almost done
And a long way from home
True believer
True believer
True believer
And a long way from home
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Color Scheme
03:41
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Deep blue
Deeper than midnight
Spreading around the edges of my point of view
Deep blue
Not sure I’ve ever seen
A deeper shade of blue
Deep red
Deeper than a bloodstain
Filling up all the cracks and the crevices
Deep red
Not sure I’ve ever seen
A deeper shade of red
Deep gray
Grayer than a rain-filled sky
Obscuring the future beyond today
Deep gray
Not sure I’ve ever felt
A deeper gray
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Ezekiel Saw The Wheels
04:08
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Ezekiel saw the wheels;
Way in the middle of the air.
Ezekiel saw the wheels;
Way in the middle of the air.
Who's that yonder dressed in white?
Way in the middle of the air.
It must be the children of the Israelites:
Way in the middle of the air.
And the big wheel run by faith, good Lord;
And the little wheel run by the grace of God;
In the wheel in the wheel good Lord;
Way in the middle of the air.
José saw the stars
Way up in the velvet night sky
José saw the stars
Way up in the velvet night sky
Who’s that up there staring back
Way up in the velvet night sky?
Who’s that up there staring back
Way up in the velvet night sky?
And the big wheel run by faith, good Lord;
And the little wheel run by the grace of God;
In the wheel in the wheel good Lord;
Way in the middle of the air.
Coyote saw the moon
Full and round in the sky
Coyote saw the moon
Full and round in the sky
Shines too bright to leave tonight
Up in the covering sky
Shines too bright to leave tonight
Up in the covering sky
And the big wheel run by faith, good Lord;
And the little wheel run by the grace of God;
In the wheel in the wheel good Lord;
Way in the middle of the air.
Who's that yonder dressed in black?
Way in the middle of the air.
It must be the children running back:
Way in the middle of the air.
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Lonely Oak New Hampshire
Based in New Hampshire, USA, Mark Reimer composes and performs original music under the name Lonely Oak in the spirit of American blues, country, and gospel ancestors. Descended from Okies and Arkies (look it up), he was an ordained minister in his 20s and has been a traveler ever since. ... more
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