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Re: She Sleeps Tight / Will Dockery

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From: Rex Entwhistle
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 16:37
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On Tuesday, July 16, 2019 at 2:46:06 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> She Sleeps Tight
>
> Sleeps so tight
> she has a marksman's eye.
> Maker's mark
> tattoo firewater spine.
> Leather shoes
> but nowhere to go.
>
> Dice and coins
> scattered in the snow.
> Dice and coins
> scattered in the snow.
>
> Won't be long,
> until I see her face.
> She's waiting
> in an undisclosed place.
> I've been conspired
> banned from my muse.
>
> This won't stick
> poor boy's all confused.
> This won't stick
> poor boy's all confused.
>
> In Salem town
> she keeps her chin so high.
> Darkened breeze
> she smiles as I roll by.
> Step inside
> she looks for tables left.
>
> Wink at time
> nothing lasts except yourself.
> Wink at time
> nothing lasts except yourself.
>
> Like a Steamboat
> she plans to roll on down.
> To the Gulf
> out of this dirty town.
> Copper mesh
> kept stuffed in a jar.
>
> Sharp cold hit
> turning wine to water.
> Sharp cold hit
> turning wine to water.
>
> We know him
> eye deed by his ship.
> In a trap
> a kind of goosechase trip.
> Whiskey fumes
> and stale gunsmoke.
>
> Sunk and drowned
> with all her knives and jokes.
> Sunk and drowned
> with all her knives and jokes.
>
> Sleeps so tight
> she has a marksman's eye.
> Maker's mark
> tattoo firewater spine.
> Leather shoes
> but nowhere to go.
>
> -Will Dockery
>
> --
> She Sleeps Tight / Will Dockery & Sandy Madaris:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uGY157cpiU&tIs
>
> "She Sleeps Tight", vocals by Will Dockery & Sandy Madaris, guitars by Brian
> Mallard. Paintings by George Sulzbach, many of the painting lost in the
> flood can be found here.

Great tune....

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