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The Pull and Drag Blues

from Climb Sheer The Fields Of Peace by Alison O'Donnell

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The mean streets of Hillbrow, Johannesburg in the early 80s. All manner of life was there. It was a lifestyle with some colourful characters living it to the max.

lyrics

Walking in the wildest city
Tearing down the danger signs
I don’t want your utmost pity
Up my sleeve a flickering, glittering knife
Reaching for fingers to defend my life
The trouble is my second skin makes me pretty

Everyone is on the make
Down along Kotze Street
Surrounded by reprobates
Two hours sleep and then squiggly, wiggly lines
Words on the page are driving me blind
Clattering keys jerk my temples awake

Threw my lot with a troubadour
He plucked those strings in the hotel bar
The doe-eyed girls always wanted more
All his talk falls like silvery shards of rain
Only a few of us could explain
His come and go would have your heart full sore

The air he breathed was a poisoned gas
A snake is squeezing his life away
I severed its head with a broken glass
Dead to me three rowdydowdy decades past
That lying back on a strip of grass
Friend I am but another poolroom regret

credits

from Climb Sheer The Fields Of Peace, released July 13, 2017
Alison: vox
Dave Colohan: Yamaha PS-20
Matt Leivers: soprano saxophone
Michael Tanner: hurdy gurdy
Jamie Davis: drums

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Alison O'Donnell Dublin, Ireland

Singer, musician, writer of songs & soundscapes. Collaborator in a number of bands across folk, trad, alternative & cross genres. Long career going back to Mellow Candle as a teenager. Student of United Bible Studies. Songs are meaningful and frequently pastoral and poetic, sung with passion and heart.
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