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lyrics

Dad would say hand me that rifle I’m off to shoot squirrels
to no one, cuz no one was there
He lost his legs and an arm, but the lawsuit won him a farm
& they rigged up a tractor and gun, for one busted up son of a gun

Mother went to the movies, with strange men in new cars
Dad sunk deeper into his wounds 
mumbling and drinking, till they tossed him from the bar
I’d go out and find him sleeping under the stars

Chorus:

So Mother moved us up to City to the big city lights
where the neighbors don’t judge & the spotlights burn bright
where grownups are grownups doing grownup things
and those Tennessee memories wash away in the rain

Yeah we got a lot of money from Dad’s big accident
even if all the lawyers were where most of it was spent
but we were already a broken branch of a family
& the money bore fruit as ugly as the seed

Chorus:
Up in the city the big city lights, burned away the thought of my old man’s plight
Cuz here big boys are grownups in the tough city night
and those Tennessee memories fade away
of that broken old man with the gun in his hand, & the whisky pouring like rain

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I was up in Korea, at the end of the war
my sergeant was a bear, but with the note that he bore
showed me a soft side I had never quite seen
& I flew back to state side on leave, for Dad was found lying dead in a field

My brother met me at the depot, the melons were ripe in the fields
we broke them all open, ate all the hearts, we knew the rest would lay rotting away, 
and the dew would fall & the squirrels would play

Chorus:
We moved up to the city to the big city lights
where the neighbors don’t judge & the club lights burn bright
where grownups are grownups doing grownup things
and those Tennessee memories wash away in the rain

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from Grown​-​Up Things, released February 4, 2021
Joe Maynard vocal & acoustic guitar
David Conrad upright bass
Pete Pulbrabek drums
Eddie Lange steel guitar
Mark Robinson acoustic guitar

Written by Joe Maynard
Produced by Mark Robinson

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