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Shake and Memories
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Sounds like a song about pot ('shake' is low grade leafy pot that only poor people smoke), but it's actually about love in the face of poverty.
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I am a solo musician. I mostly do the girl with guitar thing; acoustic blues is what I usually call it, but the terms acoustic folk or alternative country would do as well. I really only sound like a country artist because my voice has an Oklahoma/Ozarks kinda twang to it, and I do tend to sound a little countryish at times, but these days saying you're a country artist is almost the same thing as saying you're a republican right-wing evangelical southerner, which ain't me! I'm a cynical old hippie living in the country, defying most people's preconceived ideas about what I am.
Song Info
Genre
Blues • Acoustic Blues
Charts
Peak #400
Peak in subgenre #34
Author
Lucky Jean
Rights
2006
Uploaded
August 15, 2008
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MP3
MP3 6.5 MB • 128 kbps • 7:03
Story behind the song
Once when we were feeling really poor, I remarked to someone that all we had to smoke was "shake and memories". The song grew out of that. The rest of the song just came out of our life.
Lyrics
The end of the money seems like a long time ago I guess we'll take back some more bottles, make do and forgo We've brought in our pennies, but the real tragedy Is we ain't got nothing to smoke but shake and memories Roll me a story of how things used to be Tell me how they done it back in the day in old Humboldt County And I'll share what I got, and you can share yours with me, Even if all we got to share is shake and memories. I know you've been trying, and I have been too We know we'll probably survive it, 'cuz we always do, So roll me a story of how things used to be Do you think we'll make it all the way to October on shake and memories? The dogs are looking hungry and I'm feeling down See if you can come up with ten dollars when you go to town And you can sell off my old car, it doesn't mean much to me We'll do the best that we can with shake and memories Something should be coming, but it's taking such a long time If we get much more broke I might have to work me a sign And everyone who comes by is just as bad off as me But we'll do the best that we can on shake and memories Roll me a story of how things used to be Tell me how they done it back in the day in old Humboldt County And I'll share what I got, and you can share yours with me, Even if all we got to share is shake and memories.
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