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(G run)

New day cracked open the yolky sun rose

Folks came by for capons corn mash and dope

Kept himself healthy. Sunbathing.  No clothes. 

Then tell em take their trade elsewhere. Or keep their eyes closed 

(G run)

He’d hound us. wake us make us all go to mass  

Me on the altar in dresses altar boys had 

Whoever mom was, with him, in the front row

You bring home a few bucks boy, no one’s gonna know

(C run) 

The wind in that flat world all summer it blows

I shot at milk bottles I made my brother hold 

Sheets on the line snapping.  White Ghostly wings

Brought Bird to a cock fight couldn’t throw him into the ring 

(G run) 

Hauling hay in praying for summer to pass 

Unbending barbed wire and castrating calves 

A Ford El Torino someone left  in the woods 

I shot out the windshield. Sledge hammered the hood. 

(C run)

The wind in that flat world all summer it blows

 I shot at milk bottles I made my brother hold 

Sheets on the line snapping. There’s no trapping ghosts. 

Bird pecked at my fingers. I did not let go.  

(C run) 

Started liking my brother bout the time he turned 10

When I beat up a girl who was bothering him

I’m  scared of  holding the  bottle. Please don’t make me Sean 

Then toss it high as you can man.  Shattered glass shattered sun. 

(C run) 

We make cheese now for money.  I’d like to sell grass.

Never put up a gravestone. Nobody asks.

The winds getting stronger.   I don’t feel it.  

I saved at least one bird. I hold on to that. 

Try to hold on to that 

3/2019

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from Long ways till winter, released October 1, 2021
rhythm guitar, accordion, and percussion: Tommy Byrd

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Sean Keel Austin, Texas

Two dinosaurs rusting at roughly the same rate. The left most is UT math professor
Sean Keel. He writes lyric dense folk/country (and sometimes jazz) music both solo, and in collaboration with his family and friends band, Bill The Pony.

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