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Simple Life
(Kevin Gordon)

Big straw hats and cane poles
Take your bucket to the fishing hole
Bait that hook, try to get a bite
Gonna eat all we catch tonight

My grandmaw's sittin down in the shade
WPA bridge her brother made
Hands tremble on a tin of snuff
This side of heaven, she's seen enough

She's black spit and a whittlin' knife
She lived and died a simple life

Down in Oil City in a dirt floor shack
Snakes of sweat runnin down your back
Old newspaper and a rugged cross
Kept the wind and the devil outside the walls

You work another man's land from sun to sun
Lord a simple life is the only one

Push that blade, keep your babies in the shade
Another day down, another dollar made

She got her chicken from a pen out back
Wring it around til the neckbone crack
Goat on a rope, potato on a vine
The life I'm living's sure a different kind

I see her sitting there in her rockin chair
Staring me down across the years
And I ain't got no good answer to give
For her hard times or the life I live

Can't forget the scufflin', forget the strife
How she lived and died a simple life

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from Down to the Well: Solo Demos Unearthed, released August 6, 2020

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Kevin Gordon Nashville, Tennessee

Kevin Gordon is a Louisiana native whose latest releases, Tilt & Shine, Long Gone Time, & 2012's Gloryland, earned raves from the NY Times, Rolling Stone, NPR, and others. His songs have been recorded by Keith Richards, Levon Helm, Hard Working Americans, Irma Thomas, & others. "Down to the Well", a duet w/Lucinda Williams, was featured on the Oxford American Southern Music Sampler. ... more

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