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Opry of Mine

from ill fly away by Lebo Jenkins

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OPRY OF MINE
has the novelty of my voice lost its shine•my throat’s been weathered splintered patina'd in time•my banjo left the contra floor in a haze what seems long ago•now no one can dance to me play too fast sing sad and slow•i went for a walk with a stream had a talk of its ways•said his current’s a hearse hoards of limbs he's dispersed in the rage•if you walk along these shores to where my cold water comes to a pool•you'll meet a miller turned mortician to clean up my mess what a fool dig a hole in the meadow is what the old miller said• or a sister’s corpse lies on my ole mill pond’s shore and she could surely use a bed•after i dug a hole more•i could not resist as if omie wise lorie foster pretty polly they all felt my kiss•my audience has parted no worries make a new one of old•a guest is a guest whether their blood runs hot or sits cold my words drunk and slurred thankful the dead could care less for the bold•my gusto is lacking yet the seats filled the tickets all sold•once i was a little birdie in your window now if benson crocket were to catch me•i'd be going down that long lonesome road•tom dooley on the hillside, he hid her clothes and shoes•but me the only reason that i kill is to share this old rubrics cube of blues•this opry i've made from these headstones and graves i will play•but these songs that i sing nor the joy that they bring never stays just a boy in a line a•broken wind chime of disarray•on this marble i'll sit and fingerpick ‘til they catch me in the day•well i sit when i serenade cause you know i don't stand and you won't tap your feet and you won't clap your hands•you'll go weak at the knees when i sing to deceased•and then you'll wonder why it is that you’re listening to me

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from ill fly away, released September 23, 2016

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Lebo Jenkins Marshall, North Carolina

performs alien appalachian,
old time tunes, and american primitive compositions on banjo and scordatura guitar along with other instrumentation and noise collectives. Word singing too.

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