Dead Songs in Depth

    
50/366 from Big Bad Blues

Found this card by the side of the road, Jack O'Diamonds, battered
and old
Run down, rained on, filthy and torn, my own face card, sure as I'm
born

www.whitegum.com/songfile/BIGBADBL.HTM
  

    
51/366 from Taking Maggie Home

You had your chance, I didn't muscle in
But the way you treat this lady is a shame and a sin

www.whitegum.com/songfile/TAKINGMA.HTM
  

    
52/366 from Baba Jingo

Burn the water, freeze the fire, spin the molten silk
Squeeze the butter from the stone and rubies from the milk

www.whitegum.com/songfile/BABAJING.HTM
  

    
53/366 from Ariel

Ariel sings overhead, deaf men mouth the words she's said
But they don't hear the songs she's singing now

www.whitegum.com/songfile/ARIEL.HTM
  

    
54/366 from Alligator Alley

She said, you look like Elvis Presley, I said, I know, it tends to
stress me
Gives rise to undue expectations and other such-like aggravations

www.whitegum.com/songfile/ALLALLEY.HTM
  

    
55/366 from Cumberland Blues

Lotta poor man make a five dollar bill, will keep him happy all the
time
Some other fellow's making nothing at all, and you can hear him cry

www.whitegum.com/songfile/CUMBERLN.HTM
  

    
56/366 from Eight Below Zero

"It's eight below zero and too cold to snow" - catching her drift, I
made motions to go
But she stuck out her foot, my balance collapsed, fell to my knees
with my head in her lap

www.whitegum.com/songfile/EIGHTBEL.HTM
  

    
57/366 from Bone Alley

Your mother, your father, the man with the lease
The feds and the Northwest Mounted Police

www.whitegum.com/songfile/BONEALLE.HTM
  

    
58/366 from Only The Strange Remain

Looking deep and then deeper into every face
Past beauty and wisdom, past gender and race

www.whitegum.com/songfile/ONLYTHES.HTM
  

    
59/366 from Midnight Bay

Serial number, name and rank, forty margaritas in the tank
Singing 'My Blue Heaven' all the way to the bank

www.whitegum.com/songfile/MIDNTBAY.HTM
  

    
60/366 from Ivory Wheels, Rosewood Track

Fortune dealt him such a straight high hand
He saw no reason not to trust it more, and retrieved her fan

www.whitegum.com/songfile/IVORYWHE.HTM
  

    
61/366 from Bertha

Ran into a rain-storm, ducked into a bar door
It was all night pouring, pouring rain, Lord, but not a drop on me

www.whitegum.com/songfile/BERTHA.HTM
  

    
62/366 from Between Your Heart And Mine

Your darling face, and how it glows
Your eyes that see what no one knows

www.whitegum.com/songfile/BETWYOUR.HTM
  

    
63/366 from Eva

When she really feels the pain, she don't cry at all
Just stands there grinning with her back against the wall

www.whitegum.com/songfile/EVA.HTM
  

    
64/366 from Tropical Cashmere Sweater

Someone says: it don't compute, another one says: just sits there
mute
Solomon says: judge each other as you would your sister's brother

www.whitegum.com/songfile/TROPICAL.HTM
  

    
65/366 from Better Bad Luck

All out stuff in the car, high hopes for a good clean break
from the life we left behind for true love's sake

www.whitegum.com/songfile/BETTERBA.HTM
  

    
66/366 from The Sandman

Sleep the sleep of sleepers, dream the dream of dreams
When you look down deeper nothing's ever what it seems

www.whitegum.com/songfile/SANDMAN.HTM
  

    
67/366 from Dice With The Universe

What you give you get, whether gold or lice
God with the universe don't play dice

www.whitegum.com/songfile/DICEWITH.HTM
  

    
68/366 from Friend Of The Devil

You can borrow from the devil, you can borrow from a friend
But the devil will give you twenty, when your friend got only ten

www.whitegum.com/songfile/FRIENDDE.HTM
  

    
69/366 from A Day With No Tomorrow

I'll climb the famous mountain if such is your desire
Hang on through tears and pain if that's what you require

www.whitegum.com/songfile/DAYWITHN.HTM
  

    
70/366 from John Henry’s Burial

Moan in bitter misery, fall upon your bended knee
Such a man you'll never see again in railroad history

www.whitegum.com/songfile/JOHNHENB.HTM
  

    
71/366 from At A Siding

While you were gone,  these spaces filled with darkness
The obvious was hidden, with nothing to believe in

www.whitegum.com/songfile/ATASIDIN.HTM
  

    
72/366 from Who, Baby, Who?

Who was that wrong number on the telephone
whose lovely laugh was severed by the dial tone

www.whitegum.com/songfile/WHOBABYW.HTM
  

    
73/366 from All My Bridges Burning

Trying hard to believe there's something more than me
Something outside myself that wants me to be free

www.whitegum.com/songfile/ALLMYBRI.HTM
  

    
74/366 from Uncle John’s Band

It's a buck dancer's choice my friend, better take my advice
You know all the rules by now, and the fire from the ice

www.whitegum.com/songfile/UNCLEJB.HTM