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Stumptown Swing
03:00
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Saturday night think I’ll go down town
See if the ladies are hangin’ round
They got tattoos and poodle skirts
Jet black hair and they like to flirt.
These gals like bourbon and cigarettes
If you buy ‘em a drink they won’t forget
Its in the clubs that they do their thing
They do a little something called the Stumptown Swing.
Chorus:
Glide for me honey on that dance floor
Swing for me baby as the crowd cries out for more.
The gals in boots black and red
With cowboy hats upon their heads
They just can’t help but to move their feet
When the band pounds out that jumpin’ beat.
Oh the joint is packed but they’ve made some room
Just watch the gals swingin’ to the tunes
Hear that steel yes they hear it ring
As the drums beat out that Stumptown Swing
Chorus:
Glide for me honey on that dance floor
Swing for me baby as the crowd cries out for more.
Saturday night think I’ll go down town
See if the ladies are hangin’ round
Its in the clubs that they do their thing
They do a little something called the Stumptown Swing
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2. |
Broken Heart Attack
02:39
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That old honky-tonk is calling out my name
I'm feeling kinda bad
I'm feeling kinda sad
It's a broken heart attack
You left me a note on the door
Said you'd had enough
You're gonna call my bluff
It's a broken heart attack
Ooh, ooh, I'm having a broken heart attack
Ooh, ooh, I'm having a broken heart attack
Ooh, ooh, I'm having a broken heart attack
Ooh, ooh, I'm having a broken heart attack
The jukebox is crying out in pain
I'm feeling kinda blue
Cause I'm missing you
It's a broken heart attack
Pretty soon I'm crying in my beer
My tongue begins to stutter
My heart begins to flutter
It's a broken heart attack
Ooh, ooh, I'm having a broken heart attack
Ooh, ooh, I'm having a broken heart attack
Ooh, ooh, I'm having a broken heart attack
Ooh, ooh, I'm having a broken heart attack
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3. |
Righteous Babes
05:02
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Ain't she something? What a beauty
Ain't she smart? What a cutie and she's
Breakin' my heart
Here she comes there she goes
She's a woman on the go and she's
Breakin' my heart
Picks me up tears me down
But picks me right up off the ground and she's
Breakin' my heart
Why she loves me I don't know
But it happened long ago and she's
Breakin' my heart
Chorus:
These righteous babes are wearing me down
I love 'em all but they ran me out of town
These righteous babes are grinding me low
But I still love 'em all don't you know.
She's an artist and she thrills me
but the stuff she says just kills me and she's
Breakin' my heart
I was cruel when I met her
but she won't see I got better and she's
Breakin' my heart
Busts my chops, cuts me down every time I come around and she's
Breakin' my heart
She was right, I was wrong and I knew it all along and she's
Breakin' my heart.
Chorus:
Solo:
Aw the women they can cut ya
They can truss you up and gut ya and they're
Breakin' my heart
I was smart, they were smarter
I was cute but they were cuter and they're
Breakin' my heart
So there now I said it
though I know I might regret and they're
Breakin' my heart
I'm so glad that I know 'em
But I don't think I can show that they're
Breakin' my heart
Chorus:
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4. |
Unlucky In Love
02:55
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Unlucky at cards, lucky in Love
If only that were true, Heaven above,
I’m waitin’ on you to give me the time,
And say that you’re mine, But
I’m lucky at cards unlucky in love.
Oh the dealer’s hand dealt me a straight,
I’m countin’ my winnings but you show me the gate.
Just the next hand it’s a royal flush,
But I get the bum’s rush.
Cause I’m lucky at cards unlucky in love.
Bridge:
You could be the best thing that’s happened to me,
But as long as I keep winning we’ll have to wait and see
Bridge:
You could be the best thing that’s happened to me,
But as long as I keep winning we’ll have to wait and see, won’t we?
I’ve got to decide to fold or stick.
If I start to lose that might do the trick.
I’m hoping that you have a change of heart,
Maybe make a new start,
And I’ll be unlucky at cards, lucky in love.
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Remembering Is Where It Begins
C Em F G
Once I was a young man who lived in the saddle
C Em G
And rode the wide western plains.
C Em F G
Now I am an old man riding this barstool.
G C
And memories are all that remain.
Chorus:
F Em
Where is the west I knew, Place that I loved so true,
F Em
Gone on the wild Chinook winds
F Em
How did it change so fast, nothing good seems to last
D7 F#m G
Forgetting is where it begins.
C Em F G
In the morning we rode with the sun at our backs
C Em G
On up to the great divide.
C Em F G
By noon we’d be up in the pastures near timberline.
G C
And at sunset continue our ride.
Chorus:
Oh the sun it rides low, In the high desert sky
And just like a hawk I can fly.
I’m leaving this barstool and all of these drunk fools,
to kiss all my troubles goodbye
Chorus 2X:
There is the West I knew, Place that I love so true
Here on the wild Chinook Winds
I won’t let it change too fast, Some things are built to last
Remembering is where it begins.
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6. |
Daybreak In Vegas
03:48
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Daybreak In Vegas Barnet & Clarkson
Now it’s daybreak in Vegas
And I’m kinda mystified
Cause I been awake for three nights straight
Strung out and bleary-eyed.
Those night-time lights are shuttin’ down
And now I realize that at
Daybreak in Vegas
You’re gonna leave it all behind.
Well I sold my car and I bet her ring
And I guess she’d had enough
Cause she left town two nights ago
When I lost it trying to bluff.
The mornin’ stars are beautiful
at sunrise on the strip,
Now it’s daybreak in Vegas
And I’m clean out of chips.
Chorus:
And now it’s daybreak in Vegas
I’m broke alone and it’s just
Daybreak in Vegas, get out with a little pride.
It’s daybreak in Vegas, daybreak in Vegas,
The mornin’ light’s ten times as bright
As the Vegas strip tonight.
When our chapel bells were chiming
I was starin’ at a straight
With three grand on the table
my bride could surely wait.
The drinks were gettin’ stronger,
guess I wasn’t thinkin’ right.
Now it’s daybreak in Vegas
And the sun is shining bright.
Chorus
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7. |
The Perfect Crime
03:02
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You committed the perfect crime
When you stole my heart
I never suspected a dog gone thing
Right from the start
I didn't miss it for a minute
It wasn't all that hard to win it
You committed the perfect crime
When you stole my heart
I woke one day and found it missing
Wondering at the cost
You made off with quite a haul
And all I had was lost
Now it's too late to stop my fate
I wound up in a terrible state
You committed the perfect crime
When you stole my heart
You're a thief, you're a bandit
You're a crook, I just can't stand it
It's mine and you can't have it
How am I going to ever live without it?
Now I know how much it meant
The value of the wrong
It really wasn't worth that much
Until you came along
I'm the victim in this mayhem
Why does it seem I copped the real gem?
Now my life is so sublime
Since you stole my heart
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8. |
Webfoots Lament
03:48
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Webfoot’s Lament
The wind blows cold and hard as sin
I knock but you won’t let me in.
The porch is dark I’ll try again.
At the doorway to your heart.
The rain is coming down in sheets
As I walk these lonely Portland Streets
Alone its just the skids and me
I knew how it would end
Bridge
Still I see you standing there, drying off your long dark hair
Faint smile upon your face, have mercy on a hardboiled case like me.
The lights are off the bars are closed,
No place to dry off I suppose.
This endless night keeps rolling on
I guess that I’ll walk on.
I’ll stagger down to Ankeny,
a drink might cure what’s ailing me.
Forget about your long dark hair
Guess I’ll sleep under the stairs.
Bridge:
Now a locked door’s all I see, there’s no smile there for me
Pain and heartache, suffering is all the night is offering
To me.
I’ll try the door just one more time
Persistence ain’t an awful crime
My knock awakes a fat old man,
And he laughs right in my face.
He says you mean you didn’t know?
She moved to Jersey months ago.
She left cause she was feeling low
Now you better hit the road.
Bridge
Still I see you standing there, drying off your long dark hair
Faint smile upon your face, have mercy on a hardboiled case like me.
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9. |
Two Moons Rising
04:13
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Two Moons Rising Barnet & Clarkson
I remember driving through the desert night,
And you were whispering something in the moonlight
What did you say...as it all just slipped away,
And you were whispering something in the moonlight
I’ll stay with you, with you I wait,
Though you’re a million miles away.
Your pretty eyes...penetrate the endless night,
And you’re a million miles away.
Chorus:
This sea of stars, this paradise,
And two moons reflecting in your eyes.
Come walk with me, along the shore of the silent sea
Where everything’s reflected and two moons rise.
They say heaven’s above and hell’s below;
Well I don’t believe, but I don’t know.
Passing through this world...a poor boy and a pretty girl
And I don’t believe, but I don’t know.
Chorus
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10. |
Falling Leaves
04:08
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You've been away for such a long stay
And I just sit and stare
At the leaves coming off the trees
Floating in the air
Some of them do loops
Others seem to soar
Some just fall like a stone
And hit the forest floor
We said some things that were meant to sting
That I wish we could unsay
You left mad and I felt bad
Afraid you'd run away
Some of them do twirls
Others seem to dive
Some just tumble head over heels
Trying to stay alive
The falling leaves carry me along
Like a poem
And I was just wondering
When you're coming home
I spend my time making rhymes
For a song I'd write for you
Then I hear your steps so clear
And I know you missed me too
Some of them do flips
Others blow so high
Some perform amazing tricks
Make my heart strings sigh
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11. |
You're All Heart
04:44
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Chorus:
You’re all heart, least that’s what they say,
You’re All Heart, but not today
Our true love flowed wild and free,
Your love still flows, but not to me
It used to be that you and I had our own world of love
The kind of sweet romance that only poets could write of
But somehow like the end of day our light began to fade
And darkness filled our sunlit world like the drawing of a shade
Chorus:
You left on one grey stormy day down toward the railroad track
I called out raggedly to you, not once would you look back
The role of empty jaded fool would soon become my part
For when you left that cold dark day you carried off my heart
Chorus:
In vain I look from our old room down toward the railroad bed
Replaying scenes of our reunion over in my head
I know you coming up the road’s a sight I’ll never see
But still I’d ask one thing from you return my heart to me
Chorus:
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12. |
Anticipation
03:59
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Anticipation Barnet
You park your car near a popular bar on Fremont;
Neon dancin’ in the puddles on a cool dark Saturday night.
You got your bourbon neat, there’s an empty seat beside you;
You light a cigarette and wait for your baby to show.
Chorus:
Maybe you’ve seen her face before,
Then again maybe not.
Tonight you may kiss her goodnight at her door,
Or feel like the evening is shot.
You see her everywhere you go
And every time you do you realize,
She’s the only girl that you’ve been lookin’ for
Just as she’s walkin’ out the door.
Stay cool, relax, tonight you’ll round that corner;
Just play the loner, maybe she’ll think that’s hip.
Another bourbon neat, not an empty seat, the place is buzzin’;
Anticipation on a cool dark Saturday Night.
Last 1/2 Chorus:
You see her everywhere you go
And every time you do you realize,
She’s the only girl that you’ve been lookin’ for
Just as she’s walkin’ out the door.
Neon dancin’ in the puddles on a cool dark Saturday Night,
You light a cigarette on a cool dark Saturday Night,
Man the place is buzzin’ on a cool dark Saturday Night,
Anticipation on a cool dark Saturday Night.
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Shorty and the Mustangs Portland, Oregon
Shorty & the Mustangs was formed in 1996. Big Tex called some of his musician friends to see if they wanted to try something new. Having grown up in Texas, western swing music was calling him home. So they dug out some old Bob Wills and Ernest Tubb records and gave it a shot. The last 10 years the band has created original material with Mr's Wills and Tubb as inspiration.See below and enjoy! ... more
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