Howlin' at the Moon

from Live at Mission St. BBQ by The Westside Sheiks

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howlin’ at the moon

all my strings are danglin’ down
like a marionette’d clown
and if your friends don’t dance, and if they don’t dance
then please don’t bring ‘em around
oh baby, don’t bring me down

and you know my dog barks, from his chest, babe
every midnight, by the moon, by the moon
and you know my heart breaks, in my chest, babe
every time i hear that tune
i’m always howlin’ at the moon

and it’s a fingernail polish town
and there’s a dandelion in my crown
and in the wee small hours
why have all the flowers
gone into the underground?
been up so long it looks like down

and you know my dog barks …

and you’s a no-good bartend’ clown
at the crossroads, sinkin’ down’
if it’s yer soul you’re tradin’, ya better hope satan
like that high, lonesome sound
prayin’ on the ol’ campground

and you know my dog barks …

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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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