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Micky wrote: ↑Thu Mar 12, 2020 1:19 pm

Skeeter Davis begs to differ...

Epic tune by Sun Kil Moon, almost 15 minutes long. Great album - Ghosts of the Great Highway. Song is about Duk Koo Kim the boxer who did in a fight with Ray Mancini

Great band, now disbanded. The lead singer songwriter Willy Vlautin has written 5 novels

Northline
Motel Life
Lean on Pete
The Free
Don’t Skip Out on me

2 have been made into movies - Motel Life and Lean on Pete

Has a new band called the Delines, he writes the songs but no longer is the singer

This might also come in handy:

Another Old Vancouver classic




Summer Wages

Ian Tyson

Never hit seventeen
When you play against the dealer
You know that the odds
Won't ride with you
And never leave your woman alone
With your friends around to steal her
She'll be gamled and gone
Like summer wages

And we'll keep rollin' on
'Til we get to vancouver
And the woman that I love
She's living there
It's been six long months
And more since I've seen her
Years have gambled and gone
Like summer wages

In all the beer parlors
All down along main street
The dreams of the seasons
Get all spilled down on the floor
All the big stands of timber
Just waiting for falling

And the hookers standing watchfully
Waiting by the door

So I'll work on the towboats
With my slippery city shoes
Which lord I swore I would never do again
Through the gray fog-bound straits
Where the cedars stand watching
I'll be far off and gone
Like summer wages

In all the beer parlors
All down along main street
The dreams of the seasons
Get all spilled down on the floor
All the big stands of timber
Just waiting for falling

Never hit seventeen
When you play against the dealer
You know that the odds
Won't ride with you
And never leave your woman alone
With your friends around to steal her
She'll be gamled and gone
Like summer wages

Tag
And the years are gambled and lost
Kike summer wages