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Re: Rag-Picker Joe / Will Dockery & Henry Conley

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From: parnellos.pizza@
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2022 01:46
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Zod wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:

>>
>>> >>>>  > A little visit to Tin Pan Alley. Check out free download of the
>>> >>>> day
>>> >>>>  > "Rag-Picker Joe" / Will Dockery & Henry Conley
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery/song/26082646-rag-picker-joe--will-dockery-henry?0
>>> >>
>>> >>>>  > Rag-Picker Joe written by Will Dockery & Henry Conley, trumpet by
>>> >>>>  > Riley Yielding, clarinet & bass by Doug Conley, drums by John
>>> >>>>  > Phillips.
>>> >>>>  >
>>> >>>>  > Rag-Picker Joe
>>> >>>>  >
>>> >>>>  > On a stroll,
>>> >>>>  > along a Southside dole.
>>> >>>>  > To collect my thoughts
>>> >>>>  > and learn what I used to know.
>>> >>>>  >
>>> >>>>  > Ambling down the street
>>> >>>>  > friend to all he meets
>>> >>>>  > here comes Rag-Picker Joe:
>>> >>>>  >
>>> >>>>  > "Hey hey man,
>>> >>>>  > you got a pistol in your hand.
>>> >>>>  > Don't go doing the things
>>> >>>>  > we often talked about..."
>>> >>>>  >
>>> >>>>  > Rag-Picker Joe,
>>> >>>>  > it's our lives now don't you know?
>>> >>>>  > It just ain't worth doing all that time...
>>> >>>>  >
>>> >>>>  > Sally Sue came back
>>> >>>>  > took his Cadillac
>>> >>>>  > her brothers jacked him up
>>> >>>>  > and left him on the curb.
>>> >>>>  >
>>> >>>>  > This is life in the city
>>> >>>>  > we got our ways and our means.
>>> >>>>  > Rag-Picker Joe...
>>> >>>>  >
>>> >>>>  > He said:
>>> >>>>  > "Man
>>> >>>>  > I got the upper hand,
>>> >>>>  > gonna win this war
>>> >>>>  > come high water or ice."
>>> >>>>  >
>>> >>>>  > Rag-Picker Joe
>>> >>>>  > why did you go do
>>> >>>>  > all those things you did?
>>> >>>>  >
>>> >>>>  > Rag-Picker Joe
>>> >>>>  > do do do do...
>>> >>>>  > those things we talked about in jest.
>>> >>>>  >
>>> >>>>  > That's the last I seen of old Joe
>>> >>>>  > he got blown away by the tornado
>>> >>>>  > an act of God but absolutely just.
>>> >>>>  >
>>> >>>>  > Rag-Picker Joe
>>> >>>>  > why did you go do
>>> >>>>  > things we often talked about in jest?
>>> >>>>  >
>>> >>>>  > Rag-Picker Joe
>>> >>>>  > blown away by a tornado
>>> >>>>  > sad case but what did we expect?
>>> >>>>  >
>>> >>>>  > -Will Dockery
>>> >
>>> >>  Congratulations, Will.
>>> >  Thanks, Pendragon...
>>>
>>> A good modern jazz feel on here....

>> Not sure if this one from Nova BBS posted everywhere.

> We shall see...

Good evening, Zod, seems to be working fine.

🙂

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