songs about roving, rambling and plain hard luck & photography from the other side …
gin-soaked & lonely, you’re fuel for this fire

Drinking with strangers / For the last time / And you fell asleep / With the smoke in your eyes / Hot flashes burning / The dust on the blind / Gin-soaked and lonely / You’re fuel for this fire (Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter)

my man rocks me with one steady roll

My man rocks me with one steady roll / There’s no slippin when he wants take hold / I looked at the clock and the clock struck ten / I said, glory, Amen / He kept rockin’ with one steady roll (Trixie Smith)

whisper beautiful secrets into the drainpipes at night

For soon the morning sun will rise / And this little town will open up its eyes / And return from the land where I’ve never been / From a Sleepy-town, that’s free / From all that rainy-rainy-rain falls down / The cool rainy-rain upon my head / Make the river overflow it’s banks / […]