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Catch A Train In Motion

by Benny Gilbert

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    Comes in a chipboard replica of the Vinyl release with liner notes by Benny.
    Additional cassette quality "bootleg" CD included for sharing with your Aunt Wendy.

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I been waiting for a train I been waiting for a train pretty mama wanna be there baby be there waiting for to hear that sound If I get rejected mama, you'd better got a way to turn that train around On fire, I'm sitting my baby down and she's entitled, to any old man around and she gets my money people quicker and slicker than any other racket around that honey may cost money but that womans got the best bit honey around I got reckless, stranded at the edge of town so I elected, I'm puttin that woman down and so I've been out walkin people catchin me a ride by the side of the highway ground bloodshot and beat down mama gotta shake shake baby just to move my blood around Stealin, I wanna steal you all away and then get started, working on naming all them baby's we'll make but you're divided baby on keepin me or keepin on seein all them suckers you take train comin mama, well it brought you here hope it takes your ass away
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Get By 03:26
It's one in the morning the trains on the track it's the fifth girl this month that ya put on her back you got the mean reds in your belly and the smoke in your eyes you're never gonna live if you live to survive to get by, to get by saying one girl at a time, twelve maids in a line buddy keep it in mind her man says he's gonna knock your dick in the ground skip town, and take the long way around she's a good lookin woman but aint good to me I feel like layin down on a guillotine I keep her in the back of my mind most times but when she gets to the front, I wanna murder and die to get by, to get by treatin me like a crime, I'm drinking cartons of wine, no bait on the line I almost lost my mind in her town but I turned and found, the long way around I'm gonna get a pistol thats long and tall gonna shoot all my enemies to see em fall and any man on earth that tells me Im mislead I'm gonna burry his family out behind the shed to get by, to get by one shovel-full at a time, honey I'm in the pines leave my mind I'm packing up a car and gettin Ashland bound I cant breakdown, on the long road now My mule don't haul and my bird don't warble my teeth are spillin out like a sack of marbles brown baggin buddy but my body is done I sleep it off in the car on the road in the sun to get by, to get by sayin one day at a time, I'll try and walk a straight line passing neon signs I'll be alright if I leave the alleys alone Saint Annio, I'm on the first train home
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I got a gal in Witchita but I don't know her name she don't drink she don't smoke but I love her the same she's got a head full of nails and she'll tare ya right down says there aint no room for lovers here in this town the haze hung like a halo round his house when I stopped I walked up through the door past the rubble and rock I seen his head in the oven and his heart in his hands left a note sayin I'm tired of this loveless land I stopped at the edge of her house for I left I said I'm taking you with me by choice or by theft she threw her chains in the woods and she tangles our hands sayin ride on ride on from this loveless land I'm gonna find me a place so perfect and sweet untouched by the pages of the red magazines where my hands for you and you're for my hand cause there ain't no room for lovers here in this land The sun sat like an anchor on our backs as we rode the frame bent down and dragged cross the earth from the load a black pathway of glass stretched the funeral sands from us to the gates of that loveless land
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ALL THEM PRETTY WOMAN by Benny Gilbert My mother said with her darkest breath them woman gonna love and leave she breathed her smoke up across the wall and pulled a dagger up out of her sleeve saying, "All kinds of woman, are gonna put you in your grave" I met my true love when I was young she was standing on the hill on high she told me low to come around no more I nearly rolled myself down to die, thinking, All kinds of woman, are gonna put me in my grave I left my home when I was young I traveled all across this land I had been livin in a copper town when I pretty girl at hand All these pretty woman, are gonna put me in my grave There's a dagger for a man in my woman's hand she's sinking i the ground I know where she's bound It's all them pretty woman, are gonna put me in my grave Many winters went when I was weak and bent I saw my love again she was laying on the hill in a pile of pills I knew where I'd been with All them pretty woman, Gonna put me in my grave All along the tracks with a paper sack I'm waiting on a train I seen you there and I turned around again All them pretty woman, are gonna put me in my grave Oh, in my grave.
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Reno NV 02:46
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I can't hear nothin, but the box cars jumping when you tell me how to hang the clothes on the line the diamond stars at night, don't shine to me as bright as they did from the paths between the towns I might get me the notion, to catch a train in motion I might climb my midnight roof while everyone's at rest people like me fine, but they don't know me truth in kind whenever, wherever I roam I'd trade my cars for trestles, red roses for thistles I might pawn my sunday shoes for hard leather heels I can't get worked up and swear, when I never really cared how this here house it might pitch and peel I've been layin in darkness, I am the midnight witness to every rumble, ring, and holler from the edge of town To take me off the tracks, is to lay me in my coffin I'll break the morning all gold and red Her cool breathing beside me, feels like its all behind me and that smoke stack is piling up ahead I see it when I'm sleepless, my train gold and stretched out endless and I fall asleep to the pace and pound whenever, wherever I roam

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released October 13, 2014

All songs written & performed by Benny Gilbert
Engineering & Cover Design by R.J. Gilligan
Photo by Raine Randall
Bells Recording Compnay
Philadelphia, PA 2014

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Playing traditional boot-stompers on both sides of the King Columbia. Go see him live!

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