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I wrote these lyrics during my last year in Brooklyn. I was spending a lot of time at the community garden with Mark, my jamaican friends and fellow gardener. When we were done pruning and planting, we'd pick up a six pack of Coors and some peanuts, get stoned and play dominos. He would narrate the game as it unfold and intersperse stories of his youth in Jamaica. Lyrically, I think these couplets fit together like a string dominos.

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In gentle dreams of a city by the river,
where the poets and the privateers play,
no longer will I sing the songs that the devil gave to Adam,
nor will I worship in a temple of pain.

I’ve got no hook to lay my hat on,
No one to answer to,
I just keep wandering round this big, wide open country,
Looking for you.

I suppose that I could sing songs of my problems,
Lord knows I’ve got a slew,
I suppose that I could sing of them and make you feel for me,
That’s what the cynics want me to do.

Just know I might come empty handed,
Fancy clothes, I have but few,
I’ve got my share of stories to tell,
some of them are even true.

At the bottom of the muddy Mississippi,
they say there’s catfish as big as men,
and if you should ever have the grave misfortune of falling under,
you might never come back up again,

In gentle dreams of a city by the river,
where the poets and the privateers play,
no longer will I sing the songs that the devil gave to Adam,
nor will I worship in a temple of pain.

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from Distillations of The Blues, released April 1, 2015

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Ted Hefko & The Thousandaires stir up an intoxicating brew of the profound and the profane, of virtue and vice and most importantly the volatile in-between. Ted’s songs explore hope and hustlers, saints and strays, drifters and the down-and-out. The band brings these stories to life with the spontaneity of jazz, and the rough-hewn, bare-bones tone of backwoods rhythm and bllues. ... more

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