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Homeland for the Restless

by Leo J and The Mêlée

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1.
Big Big World (free) 03:21
O big big world, here I come With my big ideas and my tommy gun My arms are brown, my heart is blue Heaven knows that’s the life I choose And I know it won’t be long I’ll find myself among the weeds No it won’t be long You’re a pretty thing with a head fulla sand Waiting for the promised land I’m miles away with a broken heart Miles away, hey that’s a start And I know it won’t be long… The jailor’s lost his ring of keys The savior waits on bended knees The rivers freeze and turn to glass The wildflowers bloom at last And I know it won’t be long… Whoa big big world, here I come With my big ideas And my tommy gun
2.
With a hundred dollars I come alookin' for you With a whoop and a holler With my good times crew I won't ask for your hand, dear Or for you to be true I'm your sunday caller Be my Emmylou Tack your stash to the waypost Keep your ear to the line I'll make my way to the east coast But I'll take my time I won't ask you for nothin' Just a wish and a rhyme I'll be your rainbow Be my Caroline The road calls my number And you always call my bluff Oh won't our love And the rain that falls be enough Your pa never wakes up That phone never rings And you'll never make love Without a diamond ring I got work for tomorrow And a pack to sling If you be my song dove I will always sing The road calls my number But you always call my blood Oh won't our love And the rain the falls Be enough Oh won't our love And the rain the falls Be enough, be enough Took a hundred hours From Abilene To a breath from the border Of south Tennessee But I won't ask for your hand dear Or for you to come clean I'm your Sunday caller Won't you be my queen I'm your Sunday caller Won't you be my queen
3.
New Mexico is the land of enchantment That’s what her license plate say Well I’ve never been to Santa Fe Never been out of Michigan But I’d like to see New Mexico someday Albuquerq’, would you quench my thirst? Would you take me in like I loved you first? I’ll make it down to the mesas With a toothache and a suitcase I’d like to see New Mexico someday Might be a woman there With green eyes and auburn hair With a piece of land she’d like to share We’ll carve our names into the sandstone Live off the Rio Grande Chase hummingbirds through the canyonlands We’ll wake before the sun And when our chores are done We’ll listen to the coyotes on the run Let me sleep beneath the moonlight I’ll build my fire of pinyon pine With nothing but the stars to guide I spend my nights With a picturebook, with a flashlight I spend my days the same way If this fever ever breaks, I will leave the northern lakes And head on south down the interstate If the Lord should strike me blind I could still feel the sunshine And the desert wind of New mexico
4.
I’m gonna marry a farmer I’m gonna leave this city life Cuz I want me some farmin’ children And a farming wife And when the sun goes down And full moon is round We’ll have all we need From the earth, from the ground When the sun goes down And full moon is round We’ll dance til we fall In our little country town I’m gonna leave the city Where the people all try to look pretty Some seeds and manure And a tractor oughta do ‘er And a woman whose heart is pure Yeah I’m gonna marry a farmer I’m gonna leave this city life Cuz I want me some farmin’ children And a farming wife
5.
Got a wife and kids back in Baltimore But I aint coming back I put it all in a gunny-sack and headed for the war I was looking for salvation Looking for a thrill But all I found Was that cutting wind That cutting wind Will tear you to pieces And that cutting wind Will show you no mercy So come when the water's high With a twinkle in your blue eyes That cutting wind will blow you home again Slick rifle hand Shake me to my marrow But I'm a child of sin My numbers coming in The day after tomorrow With a nickels worth of dimes, Lord For every town I been And every time I faced that cutting wind That cutting wind… To lay down my arms And jump across the ocean To be home again With my wife and kid Is all that I am hopin' But I cannot catch a break And we cannot seem to win And all we find is that cutting wind That cutting…
6.
I left my baby on a steam rail line With a pocket fulla shiny government dimes I could not say a reason if I tried Just fare thee well, my Caroline I remember when we took that drive From state to state just looking for the good life But one day the engine quit And thinking ourselves wise We clicked our heels and crossed the wires They say a slow and steady pace will do ya fine Just don’t keep your eyes off the finish line I’m miles back and running out of time My father was a worker of the land Nothing more than a common man But a tractor spilled his body down Into the Rio Grande He never worked again So with a borrowed gun and a dime-store disguise I was caught between redemption and demise I said don’t do nothin’ funny son Oh don’t you even try Just count the cash and shut your eyes They say a slow and steady pace will do ya fine But I’m miles behind the finish line and running out of time And I still have that woman on my mind But she aint mine Santa Fe’s an awful place to hide So I hitched a ride across the great divide I’ve seen miles and miles of blacktop And every type of sky But I can’t recall what I meant to find So I sit here with my ankles in the bay Waiting for the sun to mark the day I guess there’s nothing left to do But turn around and say My oh my, I sure lost my way But a package came in the month of May Wrapped in bailing twine And the return address in violet read Caroline Oh I still love that woman soft and kind Yeah a package came in the month of May Wrapped in bailing twine And the return address in violet read Caroline She said I’m still in love With you my oldest friend Til the end Til the end Til the end
7.
Come down to the water sometime It feels fine my love Feels almost right It’s where I’ll be lying tonight My story ends at the riverbend Where the brambles are always in bloom And just overhead the slivered moon Frankie you son of a gun I will never forgive the things that you done Frankie you son of a bitch With your sweet-talking tales I’m over it You swore that job was your last So I lent you my gun And waited out back Then you sang me to sleep in your arms But I woke up cold And the money was gone They told me I wasn’t the first To fall for your charms To quench your thirst But I believed you For a year or two Frankie… I walked to the edge of our town Where the poor boys Pass their bottles around And I followed the rail til the bridge But I never looked back I just jumped right in If you’re ever coming back home Bury my clothes and scatter my bones… If you’re coming back home Scatter my bones Come down to the water sometime To the place where we’d meet With a bottle of wine You used to kiss me so sweet But my story ends at the riverbend O Frankie you son of a gun I will never forgive the things that you done Frankie you son of a bitch With your sweet talking tales, I’m… O Frankie you son of a bitch I love you still You lunatic
8.
I've known some people in my travels That showed me what it is to live I've known some givers and losers And a comeback kid I met an old woman in the woodlands With her gentle man She put her right hand 'round my shoulder And I followed them She said: We've got so much love to give we cannot keep it in We've have so much love to give, we cannot keep it in At the edge of a clearing stands their cabin Just a bedroom and a door An old copper kettle and a woodstove On the creaky wooden floor She brings her pail down to the creekside While he splits the wood They watch the fireflies through the white pines Like any lovers would Cuz they've got so much love to give they cannot keep it in They have so much love to give, they cannot keep it in Sittin' on porchswings in the morning Listenin' to the wind They watch the deer pass through the witchgrass As the day begins They live on nothing They live on nothing They live on nothing but light and love And wildflower tea That could be you and me These days I'm squinting at the daylight I shiver from the night I put my left shoe on my right foot Nothing adds up right But I've got so much love to give I cannot keep it in I have so much love to give I cannot keep it in I never noticed the way you glow until the lights were low I never noticed the way you glow until the lights were low
9.
You know they caught the preacher With his pants down He was drunker than hell and upside down He bought a one-way ticket straight down To the land of fire and terrible sounds So when the Lord comes a knockin Tell him I aint around The county clerks wear roller skates While the deputies and magistrates Sit on picnic chairs above the lake And the peasants all wait for their cake So when the Lord comes a knockin Tell him I’m running late In a distant land I tried to find A simple life from another time The natives sat and sucked on limes Waiting for a bell to chime So when the Lord comes a knockin Tell him I’ll bring the wine Christmas bells and shotgun shells Lollipops and show and tell I’ll count to ten and back again But you can’t hide from me my friend I would saw my bones just to see you smile Drag a boulder down a crooked mile But my tools all lay in a rusty pile And dragging never was my style So when the Lord comes a knockin Tell him to stay a while
10.
Deliver Me 05:14
Deliver me When the skies have settled When the ice has melted When the flies and nettles come Deliver me From the orphan chatter With an orchard ladder, come I'm poor but I'm blessed I'm happy, I guess But it's just one hard year To another, I fear So let's skip the pleasantries And loosen my tie Give me something to remember you by Come dance with me Beneath the willow tree Let us see what spring will bring Our lonely hearts, drifting apart We're poor but we're blessed We're happy, I guess But it's just one hard year To another, my dear So let's skip the pleasantries And loosen my tie Give me something to remember you by Deliver me When the skies have settled When the ice has melted When the flies and nettles come I will be undone

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The debut release.
10 tracks on wandering and redemption

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released January 13, 2013

Recorded and mixed by David Clemmer
Mastered by Gus Elg

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Leo J and The Mêlée Portland, Oregon

Hands in the dirt
Face to the wind
Folk Songs

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