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Honey and Crumbs
03:56
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Honey and Crumbs
by Kim Beggs
John Raham - drums
Keith Lowe – double bass
Steve Dawson – weissenborn, electric guitar, percussion
Chris Gestrin –organ, piano
Jeanne Tolmie – harmony
Natalie Edelson - harmony
Kim Beggs – guitar, vocal
Down past the border I’m bound, another southern town
What’s mine is yours, when I’m on your shores
And tears come pouring down, on the floor they were found
Bartender, sweeping and wiping away all those sad sounds
And when you’re holding me with all of your might
And say my sweet little something, make you feel alright
I put my guitar down at the end of the night
Bartender, sweeping and wiping away all your love light
For all that it’s worth, and nothing I say,
Don’t stop the bones and the heart from aching
Your not my darling but you’re making me wait
I cry every time I drive outta this place
When the sky turns dark, that’s when there’s room in my heart
Where you can sparkle so fine, and I drink that wine
But when the dawn’s early morning tells me something ain’t right
Bartender, sweeping and wiping I’m driving til I’m out of sight
Was that eclipse of the sun, burned a hole in my drum
My wisdom had stumbled, I was coming undone.
And now my weeping’s like honey, my warbles are crumbs
Bartender sweeping and wiping away where I come from
For all that it’s worth, and nothing I say,
Don’t stop the bones and the heart from breaking
Your not my darling but you’re making me wait
I cry every time I drive outta this place
I cry everytime I drive out of this place
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2. |
Mama's Dress
03:26
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Mama’s Dress
by Kim Beggs
John Raham - drums
Keith Lowe – double bass
Steve Dawson – electric slide guitar, mellotron, National Style-O
Chris Gestrin – organ
Laurie Lewis - harmony
Kim Beggs – guitar, vocal
Wearing Mama’s dress out on the corner
Flowers are wrinkled, buttons are broken
The dust from the road and the wind, make her blue
For the sun wants to fade her memory’s tattoo
Aching and spinning in back of her mask
Her eyes far away and with no voice to ask
Of faith that has drained from the hole in her heart
Where Mama and Papa, from this world, departed
Mama and Papa
And now the whole world passes by
Papa no longer can light up in her darkness
She’s flying, she’s falling with a limp in her wing
Her ebb and her flow don’t know what to sing her
Asleep on the street bench, it’s rain or it’s cold
She dreams of fresh flowers and buttons of gold
Flowers, Mama’s dresses, and promises gold
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Maiden Heart
03:41
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Maiden Heart
By Kim Beggs
John Raham - drums
Keith Lowe – double bass
Steve Dawson – electric guitar, percussion, mandotar, pump organ, mellodica
Gurf Morlix - harmony
Kim Beggs – guitar, vocal
Remember oh my darling when
My sweetest heart met you
My face did shine with laughing lines
You wound up on a spool
But no satchel sewn could hold the hearts
Of youth that needed proof
Love so tender, fools forever
Lord we broke in two
Cause when you danced all night without me
I heard the shotgun wedding bell
It let me go, to the sorrow
But the maiden heart still loves you
I left town, got lost and found
Down a southern darkened lane
I was a broken down blue sparrow
Big fists that led the way
Was bruises on my pretty face
Big words just could not say
It was the beating in my own heart
That got me to today
A migrant bird whispered one night
Some kind amazing grace
If I follow her to northern lights
I’ll find your sweet embrace
I was older oh my darling when
My sweetest heart saw you again
My face did shine with deeper lines
You wound up on a spool
With silver thread a satchel sewn
To keep our hearts and blooms
Our love still tender keeps forever
Made us one from two
Cause when you danced all night with me
I heard the sweetest wedding bell
Don’t let me go back to sorrow
Cause a maiden heart still loves you
Now we’re olden and dazing
A pocket and a posy
Love so tender, fools forever
Fallen down but rosy
Cause when you dance all night with me
I hear the sweetest wedding bell
Don’t let me go back to sorrow
Of a maiden heart still loves you
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Terrible Valentine
02:36
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Terrible Valentine
by Kim Beggs
John Raham - drums
Keith Lowe – electric bass
Steve Dawson – electric guitars
Chris Gestrin – Werlitzer, Phillicorda, organ
Jeanne Tolmie - harmony
Kim Beggs – guitar, vocal, harmony
The sad song in your heart ain’t mine
Another woman’s still weavin your twine
Ain’t got no sunshine, you’re full of mooonshiine
Terrible Valentine
I waited for you to come on
You told me if I could be strong
The years were long, long gone
Hey mister, you done me wrong
You hung around close to the ground
Hey Mister
Take your heavy heart
Go on get outta here
And huck-tuu to you for making me blue
With no smacking in the street cafe
No dancing on a Saturday
And no trouble any time of the day
I’m steppin’ out and away
Cause the only fires burning are my hot coals
You put yours out in the rain long ago
Who’s not forsaken by an open door?
Hey Mister, your time to go
You hung around close to the ground
Hey Mister
Take your heavy heart
Go on get outta here
And huck-tuu to you for making me blue
Huck-tuu to you for making me blue
I wanna spit in your shoe
Huck-tuu to you for making me blue
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Can't Drive Slow Yodel
03:38
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Can’t Drive Slow Yodel
by Kim Beggs
John Raham - drums
Keith Lowe – electric bass
Steve Dawson – electric slide guitar, percussion
Chris Gestrin – Werlitzer
Joey Wright - mandolin
Jeanne Tolmie - harmony
Kim Beggs – guitar, vocal
I was driving down a lonesome Road
In my highway pony with the radio
When lights went whirly and I got pulled over
By the handsome man with the golden shoulders
He looked at me, he asked if I knew
I looked at him, I told him the truth
I ain’t having a baby, and there’s no rodeo
Its just because I can’t drive slow
Yodeladehodeyodeladehodeyodelady
Can’t drive slow when I’m hittin’ the road
Can’t drive slow through the great unknown
When I’m driving down another Tennessee road
I can’t drive HOME slow to my Yukon Gold.
Can’t drive slower than the money I owe
Can’t drive slower than my yodelly ode
For a thousand miles on the AlCan highway
Can’t drive slow to my Yukon hidaway
Yodeladehodeyodeladehodeyodelady
Yodeladehodeyodeladehodeyodelady
Well the handsome man with the golden shoulders
He weren’t thinkin’ bout another donut holder
They’re drilling for oil, it’s the brand new gold
He said I’ll let you go but you need to know
Pedal to the metal for the company store
Pedal to the metal wasting precious gold
Pedal to the metal causes world woe
Woe
Well the only way cause I can’t drive slowly
Is to float down the water on my river pony
Put on my shoes and for a walk about
Or imagine the world from my own front porch
I gotta write folk yodels when the weather is colder
That you don’t mind hearing over and over
Over and over til I’m older and older
Just because I can’t drive slow
Yodeladehodeyodeladehodeyodelady
Yodeladehodeyodeladehodeyodelady
Yodeladehodeyodeladehodeyodelady
I can’t drive slow
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Bring Out Your Bones
02:58
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Bring Out Your Bones
By Kim Beggs
John Raham - drums
Keith Lowe – electric bass
Steve Dawson – mandotar, National tricone
Chris Gestrin – organ
Laurie Lewis - harmony
Kim Beggs – guitar, vocal
Up in the morning, into your blues
Out of your closet and your sad old tunes
In the shady grove who doesn’t wanna shower
Wallowin’ hollowin’ sweet and sour
Bring out your bones put ’em on the counter
Bring out your bones before you flounder
In the deep dark ocean of your heart
Lost in the hunt, scared in the woods
What d’you keep? Whatever you could
Breakin’ the seal on a barrel full of tears
Water for salt, water for years.
Turn up the burner, get it all going
Boil up, boil down, night til morning
Back to the land, back your heart
Your rickety bones are coming apart
A little bit a lonesome gone from home
Cold and weary northern the road
Long for reasons dead and gone
Wanna feel the love of Daddy and Mommy
Out of your clothes, out of your blues
Big boned soup with a sweet old tune
From the shady grove has gone to flowerin’
Waller and holler in the midnight hour
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I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
By Bob Dylan / Dwarf Music
Keith Lowe – double bass
Steve Dawson – pedal steel
Chris Gestrin –piano
Kim Beggs – guitar, vocal
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Firewater Bones
03:28
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Firewater Bones
By Kim Beggs
John Raham - drums
Keith Lowe – electric bass
Steve Dawson – weissenborn, electric guitar, percussion
Chris Gestrin – werlitzer, organ
Moritz Behm - violin
Jeanne Tolmie - harmony
Kim Beggs – guitar, vocal, harmony
Big Boy cried this tale
New bent nail holding on
Forsaken song
In his boots
Firewater womb
Big Boy walked that way
Some kids took their aim
Calling him names
Made a full grown rage
In his boots
Firewater fumes
His heavy heart wonders
But Heaven only knows
Ohwo
Why he can’t shake the firewater
From his bones
Big Boy in a prison cell
A deep dark hole
Can’t weep his sorrow
Heart in his throat
In his boots
The firewater room
Big Boy’s done his time
Bleeding all inside
From the weight of
The shudder and shame
The worry and wane
In his boots
The firewater blues
His heavy heart wonders
But Heaven only knows
Ohwo
Why he can’t shake the firewater
From his bones
Can’t walk the last mile
Gate’s open wide
White coats can’t save him
Winds dying out
In his boots
To the firewater tune
And heavy hearted lovers
Are making life stoned
Ohwo
Why they can’t shake the firewater
From his bones
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Trapeze
04:27
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Trapeze
by Patty Griffin/ Almo Music Corp / One Big Love Music
John Raham - drums
Keith Lowe – electric bass
Steve Dawson – baritone guitar, electric guitar
Chris Gestrin – piano
Natalie Edelson – harmony
Kim Beggs – guitar, vocal
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Summertime Lonesome Blues
by Kim Beggs
John Raham - drums
Keith Lowe – double bass
Steve Dawson – electric guitar, percussion
Chris Gestrin – organ
Jeanne Tolmie - harmony
Kim Beggs – six string banjo, vocal
My baby’s good looking when the snow hits the ground
My wintertime baby loves me all year round
But he only quits drinking, when my train comes to town
In the springtime, my baby gets blue
When the sun comes round he hears that whistling tune
I know he knows I know I’ll be leaving soon
For five hundred miles, I’ll miss my baby my blues
The train whistle blows my favourite tune
Heart does the talking shoes do the walking
I heard the news, on that whispering avenue
My wintertime baby hit the bottle in June
Baby’s been drinking the summertime lonesome blues
He got the blues, ain’t nothing I can do
My blues my baby, until the morning through
Baby’s been drinking, and sleeps at the river by noon
For five hundred miles, I’ll miss my baby my blues
The train whistle blows my favourite tune
Heart does the talking shoes do the walking
He got the blues, ain’t nothing I can do
My blues my baby, until the summer is through
And gets the birds eye view Hey baby I’m coming back soon
My baby’s good looking when the snow hits the ground
My wintertime baby loves me all year round
And he only quits drinking when my love comes to town
In five hundred miles, I’ll love my baby my blues
When the train whistle blows my favourite tune
Heart does the talking shoes do the walking
My heart does the talking and my shoes do the walking
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I’m Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
(traditional)
John Raham - drums
Keith Lowe – double bass
Steve Dawson – pedal steel, percussion
Chris Gestrin – organ
Joey Wright - mandolin
Ben Rogalsky – harmony
Kim Beggs – guitar, vocal
Woulda been better for us had we never
In this wide, wicked world ever met.
For the pleasures we've both seen together,
I am sure love I’ll never forget.
Oh, I’m thinking tonight of my blue eyes
Who is sailing far over the sea
Oh, I’m thinking tonight of him only
And I wonder if he ever thinks of me
You told me once, dear, that you loved me
And you said that we never would part
But a link in the chain has been broken
Leavin me with a sad and aching heart
Oh, I’m thinking tonight of my blue eyes
Who is sailing far over the sea
Oh, I’m thinking tonight of him only
And I wonder if he ever thinks of me
When the cold, cold grave shall enclose me
Will you come there and shed just one tear
And say to the strangers around you
A poor heart you have broken lies here
Oh, I’m thinking tonight of my blue eyes
Who is sailing far over the sea
Oh, I’m thinking tonight of him only
And I wonder if he ever thinks of me
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12. |
Longest Dream
03:31
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Longest Dream
by Kim Beggs
John Raham - drums
Keith Lowe – double bass
Steve Dawson – pedal steel
Natalie Edelson - harmony
Kim Beggs – guitar, vocal
He knows
It’s coming fast
His engine slow
His windows black
It’s shaken him
Shaken him silly
Ache in his bones
Get along billy
It’s dark in here
Can’t see the sky
Look at that blue
And close his eyes
And comb his hair
For the longest dream
Takin’ him for to see
He’s ready
For his last trip
It’s time
For him to rest
On the eastbound rail
And know what’s next
He loved her well
The best he can
She could not bare
She don’t know how
Deep in his heart
She will be there
To comb his hair
For the longest dream
Takin’ him for to see
Fly away
Beyond these walls
Above the clouds
Where there ain’t no fog
He isn’t here
Look at the sky
Into that blue
And close his eyes
And comb his hair
For the longest dream
Takin’ him for to see
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Just Someone I used to Know
By Jack Clement / Jack Music Incorporated / Glad Music Company
John Raham - drums
Keith Lowe – double bass
Steve Dawson – pedal steel, electric guitar
Chris Gestrin – piano
Gurf Morlix – harmony
Kim Beggs – guitar, vocal
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Kim Beggs Yukon
11 time music award nominee and ne’er a winner!
With 2018 Independent Music Award
2018; 2018 Western Canadian Music Award plus 6 more; & 3 Canadian Folk Music Awards
"Ranked #1 on my [2014 & 2011] Polaris Music Prize ballot is Kim Beggs... Focused. Universal. Canadian." says
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