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I finished this song up in Austin, Tx, just in time to record it with Adam Ahrens. It isn't part of my live set very often, cause it's tough to pull off. Egptland represents New York for me. I was already beginning to realize in 2008 that I didn't want to live there forever. It took me another six years to move back to New Orleans and I wrote some great music in the meantime.

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Whiskey and water and lemons in my tea,
Lazy Sunday mornin's comin' back to me,

Post card memories wishin' you well.
Telephone messages, stories to tell

Cardboard guitar case and a carry-on bag,
Raisin' up the rooftop,
but cha covered in rags,

Gazin' out the window when the truth is near at hand,
I don't intend to die in Egypt Land.

The taste of the medicine and the smell of the beer,
Standin' at attention, but you're tremblin' in fear,

Realizations,
Stiff conversation,
Uneasy understanding,
No use demanding,

Starin' into darkness and you tryin' to find hope,
Makin' deals with the devil and you pickin' out a rope.

I don't want to die in Egypt,
I don't want to die in Egypt land,
I don't want to die in Egypt.

Talkin' bout the future but cha lookin' straight behind,
Tryin' to think of reason,
Nothing comes to mind,

Quite often walkin' blindly looking for some sort of sign,
In a maze of broken patterns can a vision be devine?

I don't want to die in Egypt,
I don't want to die in Egypt land,
I don't want to die in Egypt.
I don't wanna die in Egypt land.

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from Egyptland, released August 1, 2009

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Ted Hefko and The Thousandaires New Orleans, Louisiana

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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