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Well, he came in ’69, offered up a hand/stayed 10 years/workin’ for my dad. Plantin’ in the Spring/Harvest in the fall/milkin’ the cows/sloppin’ the hogs. He’s sittin’ on the porch/settin’ with the sun/little tenant house/next to the barn. Sweat soaked hat/grass stained boots/dirty over-alls, whiskey on the stoop. He’d say: “ya better watch your step boy, lessen you fall, straight into the gap of a poor man’s soul. A solitary…ah there ain’t much to say…’cept to mutter to yourself, and while the day…the day away. He’s peelin’ his banana/lightin’ up a smoke/Cincinnati Reds on his radio/sleepin’ when the darkness blankets the land/risin’ with the rooster/do it all again. He’d say: “ya better watch your step boy/lessen you fall/straight into the gap of a poor man’s soul. A solitary, ah there ain’t much to say/’cept to mutter to yourself/and while the day…the day away. Almost a decade to the day he came/he ‘bought the farm’ under a tin roof rain/a blip on a radar/nothin’ of note/an anonymous character/in a wordless book. Ahhh, ya better watch your step boy/lessen you fall/straight into the gap of a poor man’s soul. A solitary, now there ain’t much to say/ain’t much to say, hey…but while the day/while the day/while the day/the day away. While the day away….

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Forrest Whitlow Kansas City, Missouri

“David Lynch meets Neil Young” says KJHK disc jockey Barry Lee, describing Forrest Whitlow’s music. “Forrest writes and sings from the heart and it comes through in his performances.” This mix of familiar and eclectic musical elements informs and drives the music of Forrest Whitlow. ... more

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