James Edmondson - Black Sheep (feat Thomas de Bourbon)

from Alternate Universe by Song Club Sampler

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Big George is leaving San Francisco
Four hours south to San Luis Obispo
Thermos full of coffee and a lotta talk radio

Little George stuck at the county jail
Mad cause dad wouldn’t pay his bail
If you love em then you let em go

Needed some things for life on his own
A camping tent and a Coleman stove
Carefully laid in the back of his vacuumed car

Can’t deny his son a roof or a meal
Search on craigslist got a pretty good deal
And the hunt for a bargain was certainly the easiest part

And the hardest oh I can’t even start

And what could have been would break
Your heart

Big George likes his Doris day
Took him 40 years to tell his wife he was gay
Might be the weirdest guy I know

Little George has lost his mind again
Marijuana meth and heroin
Stayin down by the creek in the tent with his Coleman stove

I remember swimming and climbing trees
Unaware of bipolarities
or being victimized by the chemicals that float around in your brain

I dream about him all the time
How his death will come before mine
And I think my pop is pretty sure of the same

He’s not a loser
He isn’t even playin the game

Don’t call him crazy
He’s absolutely fucking insane

And if God gave without taking anything back
The black sheep wouldn’t be…

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from Alternate Universe, released May 5, 2020
Thomas de Bourbon on lap steel

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