Name: Old Man Winter
Duration: P00H02M18S
Description: Notes: Written in the dead of our 8-month winter, 2008. Wishful, wistful. Blissfulness gets to me sometimes, and it did here. It's more about the melody than anything. Makes me well.

Old Man Winter

from True Story (Live from the 2nd Bedroom) by simpleton

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Notes: Written in the dead of our 8-month winter, 2008. Wishful, wistful. Blissfulness gets to me sometimes, and it did here. It's more about the melody than anything. Makes me well.

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Old Man Winter
on the side of the road
Old Man Winter
done robbed his coat
Old Man River
done caught me red
Old Lady done gone
robbed my bed
Old Lady Sister
is deep in debt
Old Man River
goin to wind up wet
Old Man Winter
tired n' unfed
Old Man Winter
goin to beat me dead

Please can't I see
Buds on the trees
Bugs on the leaves
Limbs swayin in the breeze

Old Man Winter
tells me true
Old Man River
got the river flu
Old Man Winter
got his power cut
Old Man Winter
in the deepest rut
Old Man Winter
is on my side
Old Man River
goin to never die
Old man in Heaven
ain't nuthin but a sham
Old Man and Woman
done opened that dam

Please can't I see
Buds on the trees
Bugs on the leaves
Limbs swayin in the breeze

credits

from True Story (Live from the 2nd Bedroom), released May 1, 2008
Instruments: overdub 6 out of 12 string acoustic guitar, vocals featuring Matthew and his bastardo meow at the beginning.

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