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MaximumFolk uploaded a new video
(3 months ago)
From the 6-song EP/CD "No Money Down" - Paul Metsa and Sonny Earl (MaximumFolk.com, 2010). For more information, visit http://www.maximu...
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From the 6-song EP/CD "No Money Down" - Paul Metsa and Sonny Earl (MaximumFolk.com, 2010). For more information, visit http://www.maximumfolk.com.
Words & Music by Paul Metsa / Paul Metsa Music - BMI.
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MaximumFolk uploaded a new video
(6 months ago)
"Whiskey or the Rain" from the 6-song EP/CD "No Money Down" - Paul Metsa and Sonny Earl (MaximumFolk.com, 2010). For more info...
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"Whiskey or the Rain" from the 6-song EP/CD "No Money Down" - Paul Metsa and Sonny Earl (MaximumFolk.com, 2010). For more information, visit http://www.maximumfolk.com.
Words & Music by Paul Metsa / Paul Metsa Music - BMI.
Video Directed and edited by Margo Cavis. Video Concept and Photography by Howard M. Christopherson.
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MaximumFolk uploaded a new video
(8 months ago)
"Skyway to Hell" - an acoustic concert and celebration of Paul Metsa's 3 decades in the Minnesota Music Scene, to be held at the Parkway ...
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"Skyway to Hell" - an acoustic concert and celebration of Paul Metsa's 3 decades in the Minnesota Music Scene, to be held at the Parkway Theater in Minneapolis on November 27, 2009. For details and ticket information, visit www.skywaytohell.com.
The concert will feature Cats Under the Stars, Sonny Earl, Sherwin Linton, Willie Murphy, Curtiss A, Mary Cutrufello and other surprise guests.
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MaximumFolk uploaded a new video
(10 months ago)
St. Louis County Fair from the album "Whistling Past the Graveyard". Words & Music by Paul Metsa / Paul Metsa Music - BMI.
MP3 and CD...
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St. Louis County Fair from the album "Whistling Past the Graveyard". Words & Music by Paul Metsa / Paul Metsa Music - BMI.
MP3 and CD available at Itunes, Amazon, CDBaby.com, PaulMetsa.com and MaximumFolk.com.
Paul Metsa - Guitar, Vocals
Jimmy Anton - Bass
Emanuel Kiriakou - Guitar, Vocals
Jesse Wheeler - Percussion
October 23, 1991
ST. LOUIS COUNTY FAIR
It was Saturday night at the midway,
a Mardi Gras Midwestern style
I was with my man the Junkboy from Jersey,
a devils cap and Napoleons smile
We had our tea leaves read by Lady Samantha,
she said one of you will fall in love
But the Junkboy had Madame Electra,
she wasnt pretty but she was mighty tough
She said anything it can happen,
anything aint all it appears
Dead men sing their song,
weak men become strong
Pretty women just fly through the air
Chorus:
St. Louis County Fair
St. Louis County Fair
Dead men sing their song,
weak men become strong
Pretty women just fly through the air
It was midnight when I laid eyes upon her,
she was walking down fireworks row
She grabbed me like I knew her forever
as the sky was about to explode
We rolled nickels and we ate cotton candy,
took a ride on the old ferris wheel
And we kissed by the lights of the city
at the top we hung by our heels
Won a black cat at the ring toss,
shot plastic ducks in a pond
Well the first time I kissed her,
I started to miss her
And just in a flash she was gone
Repeat Chorus
I walked further up the midway,
a barker yelled come on inside
For 10 tickets I will introduce you to a loved one
That was too soon to die
Now who in the world would believe it,
I almost started to cry
There was my Grandma and Grandpa
smiling sweetly, dancing side by side
Young love that never got older,
old love that always stayed young
Old love or new love,
false love or true love,
It just keeps you hanging on
Repeat Chorus
The next day I went to the fairground
where the carnival lights used to be
You know I might have been dreaming
all I saw was a hobo sleeping under a tree
Then the Junkboy rolled out of the bushes
with a martini wedding ring in his ear
Had a postcard from Lady Samantha
said see you sailors same time next year
True love it never comes easy,
true love aint all that it seems
It may last forever, you can never say never
or youre left with a song and your dreams
Repeat Chorus
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MaximumFolk uploaded a new video
(10 months ago)
"Jack Ruby" from the album "Whistling Past the Graveyard". Words & Music by Paul Metsa / Paul Metsa Music - BMI.
MP3 and CD...
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"Jack Ruby" from the album "Whistling Past the Graveyard". Words & Music by Paul Metsa / Paul Metsa Music - BMI.
MP3 and CD available at Itunes, Amazon, CDBaby.com, PaulMetsa.com and MaximumFolk.com.
Live performance recorded October 23, 1991
Paul Metsa - Guitar, Vocals
Jimmy Anton - Bass
Emanuel Kiriakou - Guitar, Vocals
Jesse Wheeler - Percussion
JACK RUBY
Chorus:
Jack Ruby, Jack Ruby in a Cavanaugh hat,
whoever taught you to shoot a pistol like that
Oh, you snuck in the basement
and you stood in the back,
Jack Ruby, Jack Ruby in a Cavanaugh hat
Jack Ruby, Jack Ruby when you were fifteen years old
on the south side of Chicago you looked up to Capone,
stole girls lunch money beat boys on their way home
Jack Ruby, Jack Ruby when you were fifteen years old
Jack Ruby, Jack Ruby when you were twenty-one,
you traded brass knuckles for a caliber gun,
in the Sherman hotel bootleg whiskey did run
Jack Ruby, Jack Ruby when you were twenty-one
Jack Ruby, Jack Ruby when you were thirty-five,
set up shop in Dallas had nothing to hide,
a nightclub with hookers and cops side by side
Jack Ruby, Jack Ruby when you were thirty-five
Jack Ruby, Jack Ruby when you were forty-nine,
at the Carousel Club you kept the judges in line,
J. Edgar Hoover said theres no organized crime
Jack Ruby, Jack Ruby when you were forty-nine
Repeat Chorus
Did the kingfish in New Orleans give you the key,
the numbers to contact the men you should see,
a confederate cloak of conspiracy,
with an eye towards November 1963
When the motorcade turned on Houston and Elm,
into the crossfire where Camelot fell
Were the shots from the window or 6th floor window well?
In Dealey Plaza more than three empty shells
Was Lee Harvey Oswald the only one?
What of those in the bushes who started to run
With secret service credentials and government guns,
theyd answer no questions for what they had done
Oswald was set up so he did say
before he appeared in the basement driveway
On live television Ruby blew his soul away,
God speed the witness with something to say
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Jack Ruby, Jack Ruby when you were sixty-four,
told Dorothy Kilgallen youd even the score,
from your jail cell gave names and numbers and more,
in forty eight hours she lay dead on the floor
Jack Ruby, Jack Ruby come back from the grave,
tell us for real whose lives you did save
And the powers behind the deals that were made,
how a Presidents murder became your stock and trade
For those who are guilty are alive to this day,
got their visas in D.C. and got on their way,
others laid low until election day,
a day of high treason and a quick getaway
Did the Warren Commission mean what they say?
Did the mob or oil money get in the way?
Did the shadow of Cuba darken the day?
In Dallas County the land of LBJ
In Dallas County the land of LBJ
(Repeat Chorus)
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