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Released: 01.01.1985 |
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This album is not the Coe-est of Coe, to say the least. The stock Nashville instrumentation and the all but one non-Coe written songs don't help, but what I really miss is the odd touches he usually brings to a project. No letter to the fans on the sleeve, no name-dropping in the songs, and no recitations, not even before his "Unchained Melody" cover, which begs for some DAC reminiscing or theorizing. The outsider sentiment of "Would They Love Me Down In Shreveport," works, it's a pretty good song. And he gets back to his roots and does some vocal mimicry, paying tribute to the singing style of Neil Young on a version of "Southern Man" (the album is dedicated to Young) and Bob Dylan on "Even and Forever." Production wise he probably should have borrowed more Young and Dylan aesthetics for the rest of the album.
Lyrics:
Ain't Worth the Powder
I came up the hard way and fought with my back to the wall sometimes down to nothing but right now babe weve got it all looking back now when it comes down to facing the truth i aint worth the powder to blow me to hell with out take my silver eagle and my name up in lights and those big blue eyed diamonds cants keep me warm at night here in the spotlight my dreams have come true but i aint worth the powder to blow me to hell with out you
Would They Love Me Down in Shreveport
If they saw me riding in long hair flying in the wind
Would They Love Me Down in Shreveport today
If I only sang the blues, and wore patent leather shoes
Would They Love Me Down in Nashville today
If they saw me talk with ease to the drunkard and the thieves
Would They Love Me out in Wichita today
Would the rich me think it's funny, if I said give up your money
Would They Love Me up on Wall street today
If I made the wine from water, gave it to there sons and daughters
What would the saints in Salt lake City say
If I talked of brotherhood walking through there neighborhoods
Would They Love Me up in Boston today
If I said love those how use you, and forgive those how abuse you,
and turn the other cheek what would you say
If you saw me riding in long hair flying in the wind
Would you Love Me Down in
Would you Love Me Down in
Snowblind Friend
Probably coverd by David Alan Coe on "Unchained"
You say it was this mornin' when you last saw your good friend
Lyin' on the sidewalk with the misery on his brain
Stoned on some new potion he found upon the wall
Of some unholy bathroom in some ungodly hall
He only had a dollar to live on 'till next Monday
But he spent it all on comfort for his mind
Did you say you think he's blind?
Someone should call his parents or a sister or a brother
And they'll come and take him back home on a bus
But he'll always be a problem to his poor and puzzled mother
And he'll always be another one of us
He said he wanted heaven but prayin' was too slow
So he bought a one-way ticket on an airline made of snow
Did you say you saw your good friend flyin' low
You say it was this mornin' when you last saw your good friend
Lyin' on the sidewalk with the misery on his brain
Stoned on some new potion he found upon the wall
Of some unholy bathroom in some ungodly hall
Did you say you saw your good friend flyin' low
Dyin' slow
Blinded by snow
Southern Man
Chorus:
"Southern man better cool your head
Don't forget what your good book says
Southern change gonna come at last
Now your crosses are burning fast
Southern Man..."
I saw cotton and I saw black
Tall white mansions and little shacks
Southern man when will you pay them back
I heard screaming and ooh whips cracking and
how long how long
hoooow long
Southern Man...
Chorus
Lilly pelle your hair is golden brown
I've seen your black man comin round
Swear to god I'm gonna cut him down
I heard screaming and ooh whips cracking and
How long how long
hoooow long
Southern Man...
Chorus
Lyrics:
Ain't Worth the Powder
I came up the hard way and fought with my back to the wall sometimes down to nothing but right now babe weve got it all looking back now when it comes down to facing the truth i aint worth the powder to blow me to hell with out take my silver eagle and my name up in lights and those big blue eyed diamonds cants keep me warm at night here in the spotlight my dreams have come true but i aint worth the powder to blow me to hell with out you
Would They Love Me Down in Shreveport
If they saw me riding in long hair flying in the wind
Would They Love Me Down in Shreveport today
If I only sang the blues, and wore patent leather shoes
Would They Love Me Down in Nashville today
If they saw me talk with ease to the drunkard and the thieves
Would They Love Me out in Wichita today
Would the rich me think it's funny, if I said give up your money
Would They Love Me up on Wall street today
If I made the wine from water, gave it to there sons and daughters
What would the saints in Salt lake City say
If I talked of brotherhood walking through there neighborhoods
Would They Love Me up in Boston today
If I said love those how use you, and forgive those how abuse you,
and turn the other cheek what would you say
If you saw me riding in long hair flying in the wind
Would you Love Me Down in
Would you Love Me Down in
Snowblind Friend
Probably coverd by David Alan Coe on "Unchained"
You say it was this mornin' when you last saw your good friend
Lyin' on the sidewalk with the misery on his brain
Stoned on some new potion he found upon the wall
Of some unholy bathroom in some ungodly hall
He only had a dollar to live on 'till next Monday
But he spent it all on comfort for his mind
Did you say you think he's blind?
Someone should call his parents or a sister or a brother
And they'll come and take him back home on a bus
But he'll always be a problem to his poor and puzzled mother
And he'll always be another one of us
He said he wanted heaven but prayin' was too slow
So he bought a one-way ticket on an airline made of snow
Did you say you saw your good friend flyin' low
You say it was this mornin' when you last saw your good friend
Lyin' on the sidewalk with the misery on his brain
Stoned on some new potion he found upon the wall
Of some unholy bathroom in some ungodly hall
Did you say you saw your good friend flyin' low
Dyin' slow
Blinded by snow
Southern Man
Chorus:
"Southern man better cool your head
Don't forget what your good book says
Southern change gonna come at last
Now your crosses are burning fast
Southern Man..."
I saw cotton and I saw black
Tall white mansions and little shacks
Southern man when will you pay them back
I heard screaming and ooh whips cracking and
how long how long
hoooow long
Southern Man...
Chorus
Lilly pelle your hair is golden brown
I've seen your black man comin round
Swear to god I'm gonna cut him down
I heard screaming and ooh whips cracking and
How long how long
hoooow long
Southern Man...
Chorus