Name: Tooth and Nail
Duration: P00H03M16S
Description: Someday you'll wake up one morning and realize that you have a lot more days behind you than you do in front of you. This isn't a song of depression... it's a song of acceptance.

Tooth and Nail

from The Catchpen by John Egenes

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Someday you'll wake up one morning and realize that you have a lot more days behind you than you do in front of you. This isn't a song of depression... it's a song of acceptance.

lyrics

I keep my bottle in a paper sack
spend my day in a one room shack
lookin’ out the window at the railroad track
waitin’ on a train that won't be back

clothesline blowin’ in the autumn air
old blue jeans and underwear
neighbors a-wonderin' what they're doin' there
looks like rain but I don’t care

CHORUS:
it's tooth and nail
for the one who rides
that big steel rail
to the finish line of the human race
someone come along and take my place

scarecrow lives across the way
never has too much to say
stands out there in the field all day
scarin’ them damned old birds away

preacher says there's a place for me
when the angels get here to set us free
but that don't come with a guarantee
and I ain't as young as I used to be

CHORUS:

you find redemption in a paper sack
retribution in a one room shack
you leave your dreams by the railroad track
settle up your debts and you dont come back

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from The Catchpen, track released June 1, 2019
John Egenes: vocal
John Egenes & Gunther Flutney: guitars, mandolin, dobro, percussion, bass, drums

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John Egenes Dunedin, New Zealand

Download anything you see here for free (you can pay if you want, but you don't have to...) Author, multi- instrumentalist and session musician for countless artists, producer, songwriter, all around likeable guy.

And you might want to read his book, Man & Horse: The Long Ride Across America ... more

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