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I got a ragtime formula inside of my head a-comin’ back to me now from the ages of the dead. If Tom Waits could yodel and I’ll bet that he’d can…it up inside his head until it came a-crawlin’ back from the…

What do you do with a poison in your head? Seepin’ and a-creepin’ into every single bed - into your dreams, when you wake and you bake and you make every little try, but you can’t and you cry, “Mercy, mercy over me”.

I’m just a cowboy singer and I’m trying all I can to wake the spirit and the soul and to place it in your hand. Or take the holy Bible, and make you all liable - to sing in every church, in every bar in every land…

Or like a blackjack dealer I’m a-dealin’ out the cards - you fumble with your soul and you gamble with your lard…but you can’t get to heaven if it’s where you want to go – you can’t use fat…you’ve got to gamble with your soul.

No, you can’t go to church just to claim you’ve got a soul, you can’t pay the piper with your silver and your gold. You can’t run and hide from the burning inside - it’s your soul calling you…

So you’d better make time for a date with a with a wild jungle ape, scratchin’ and a-grabbin’ in a wild jungle way. No, you can’t retire, you’ve got to look him in the eye, you’ve got to tangle with your soul, dance with the fire, got to dance with the fire.

Well, you could call yourself a Christian, or a Muslim or a Jew…you could call yourself a prophet or a liar or a fool…but when the chips are on the table, you can’t use coal, you can’t use fat, you’ve got to gamble…

When the time draws near to lay down and die, and the sun is setting fast on a last blue sky, will you say “Please!”, will you say, “Please!!”…it’s too late friends, for all your mercy over me.

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from Petunia And The Vipers, released February 5, 2021
written by Petunia

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Petunia Vancouver, British Columbia

Hank Williams on acid…Tom Waits meets Elvis at Woody Guthrie's Hobojunction...their sound may not sit in any one music genre, so perhaps “Good Music” describes it best? Hillbilly-flavoured-swing inflected-ragtime-goodtime-thunderously rolling-one-of-a-kind-you-don’t-want-to-miss-this-sort-of-a-show…springboards off music of the past jumping into the present day - only echoes of the past remain ... more

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