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The Outlaw
03:28
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Staring out the window at a mountain range
Speeding down the track on a one way train
Cop at my side
They say tomorrow I'll hang
Longing for my freedom like a dog on a chain
Never found no comfort in Caroline
Got sweet Mary on my mind
Don't you cry for me
Just lay me down where the river meets the sea
Robbed a bank in Baltimore and River city too
Got lucky in Kentucky yeah you know how I do
Posse caught up with me down in Tennessee
They said come out with your hands up
I said hold on let me finish my tea
Ran to the bed grabbed my boots and my gun
Hopped from the window and away I run
Ran for the station and almost made it too
Sometimes you make plans and life has other plans for you
If I had a boy you know I'd tell him son
Don't be like me don't live by the gun
You think a man's free just 'cause you seen him roam
Well that man ain't free he's just a man without a home
So walk me to the gallows up those creakin' steps
Hood on my head and a noose around my neck
Yell to the coppers do what you gotta do
Done more livin' in my short life than you could do in two
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Heart Like an Ocean
03:39
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Her eyes are the light that shines
Between the blinds and warms the room
To wake you soft from slumber
On a Sunday afternoon
Her arms hang at her sides
Like the boughs of a willow tree
'Til they raise outstretched to say
Babe come on home to me
Her heart's like an ocean
Too vast to swim
But it's better to die tryin'
Than regret not jumpin' in
Her smile's a wildflower
Watch out boys she'll take your breath away
Expect nothing less from the girl
With a name like a holiday
Her long legs carry her graceful
Through the crowd as a summer breeze
Two feet above the ground
So careless and free
Her heart's like an ocean
Too vast to swim
But it's better to die tryin'
Than regret not jumpin' in
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Mortality Blues
03:39
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Let me get old before I die
and I'll never ask a thing no more
Let me get old before I die
'cause I feel like I'm knocking on death's door
You were young when you came here
You may be young when you breathe your last breath
If you take my advice you will leave here
You'll find no mercy in the one they call death
Chorus
All the time that you have use it wisely
Make amends, say all you need to say
Those who don't they come to despise me
My name is death and I take no holiday
Chorus
And you know no one can resist me
When I lay my claim on them
Try to be at peace when you meet me
When you walk that lonesome valley my friend
Chorus
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Stand Together
04:08
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Get pulled over for nothing
They got their quotas to fill
Now you're out ninety dollars
Down the street someone's getting killed
The city's on fire mama
They say we've lost our minds
I guess that's just what happens
when you stoke a fire too many times
Chorus
We know what's right and
We know what's wrong
Gotta stand together
or fall alone
New York City's got it's arms around my throat
We were in Oakland on the platform
when they shot Oscar Grant like a dog
Got their military weapons
Like they're going to war
Seems like they forgot
Who the hell they're working for
Chorus
Well they got a new dance
in Ferguson Missouri
It's call the serve and protect
So don't you worry
Put your hands in the air
'cause the cops don't care
Just move real slow
Or you'll be the first to go
Chorus
What have we learned
In this history of hate
Attica, Orangeburg, Kent and Jackson State
Body cameras do nothing
When you can just turn them off
We need to lock up the judges
Who don't lock up corrupt cops
Chorus
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Ballad of Brady
05:21
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Old Brady was a mean man
A tyrant some would say
He loved his women and his drink
Up to his dyin’ day
His woman was a gentle soul
She ran the country store
Worked her fingers to the bone
While old Brady walked out the door
One day a stranger arrived in town
With stars upon his boots
He asked where Brady could be found
They said the red saloon
Upon the doors a partin’ wide
Saw Brady sittin’ there
Drunk off cheap liquor boys
And slumped back in his chair
Oh Brady, Oh Brady
What have I done
Once called me the light of your life
But now I’ll shine for no one
Oh Brady, Oh Brady
What am I to do
You weren’t the best man
But oh how I miss you, how I miss you
He served Brady his warrant sheets
And led him to the train
Handcuffed and disheveled
In the unforgiving rain
Brady’s wife ran and ran
She screamed her husband’s name
She spied them by the platform there
And so she took her aim
She pulled the cold trigger tight
Until no more remained
All missed ‘cept for the one
That freed Brady from his chains
He slipped from the stranger’s grasp
Fell face down in the mud
The last words he ever spoke
You got me my love
You got me my love
Chorus
She ran quick from the station
Shocked by what she’d done
Tossed clothes in a suitcase
And threw away the gun
The sun broke through the clouds that day
As the rain it then died down
She cried a lonesome melody
As she walked on out of town
She came passin’ on through
Ten years to the day
To say goodbye to her love
And lay flowers on his grave
Some say if you listen close
At night you’ll hear the sound
Of his woman cryin’ out
How she shot old Brady down
Chorus
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Josh Gray Nashville, Tennessee
Josh Gray’s sound is a mixture of the folk, blues, country, and rock that first inspired him to pick up a guitar. He’s a storyteller at heart, bridging both generations and genres to form his signature style of Americana.
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