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High Hopes

get my backpack rucksack
down to the train track
poppin’ like a tic tac
choppin’ like a lumberjack
baby, i’ll catch the katy
don’t need no mule to ride, I mean
don’t need no mule to ride

mi soy hobo
corro con lobo
everywhere that i go
signs out the window
No Trespassing, got me laughing
cuz this is all for you and me, I mean
this land was made for you and me

We got high hopes
pie in the sky hopes
walkin’ a tightrope
like children on jump ropes
countin’ out 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 high hopes

motorcycle zen, man
cigar-store Indian
drunkard, and a citizen
bringin’ it all back home again
maybe, baby
i’ll have you for me, I mean
maybe baby, I’ll have you

I got high hopes …

On a thumb and a prayer, man
we been everywhere, man
from cali to connecticut
prevailing on the etiquette
of candles, in the windows
and when the wind blows
we’ll be dust in the wind
all we are is dust in the wind

but we got high hopes
pie in the sky hopes
walkin’ a tightrope
like children on jump ropes
countin’ out 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 high hopes

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from Live at Mission St. BBQ, released November 30, 2019

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The Westside Sheiks California

Taking as their spiritual forefolk the sounds of Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell, The Mississippi Sheiks, and the quixotic melodics of The Old Weird America, The Westside Sheiks combine piano and national resophonic to create a cantankerously swinging sound that can bounce from the playfully percolating to the melodically maudlin, and from the raw and raggy to the gleefully grinding. ... more

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