Them Travellers -Mandalyn May with Ian Cook & Dallin Bulkley from Larry and His Flask!

Happy and lucky to be joined by Ian Cook and Dallin Bulkley from Larry and His Flask at the Benefit for Jesse & Jamin's dad, Richard Marshall. It was a great night and a lot of $ was raised for a good cause.

More about LAHF (Larry and His Flask) can be found at:
http://www.larryandhisflask.com/

They are TOTALLY awesome and well worth checking out - and if you can see them live, that's even better!!! Great guys, great music, great energy, just great all around:)

Lyrics:

Them Travellers

When my great grandma's great grandma's grandma
was little more than a girl
her ma and her pa used to travel upon
the roads that connected the world

You know them travellers, they can't be trusted
they'll take your whiskey, your women, your gold
but when they leave you, the world's done busted
'cause you'll wish you were with them on the road

Up north to the Orkneys and Stornoway,
down south to Morocco through Spain,
from the east to the west, they filled her wedding chest
with spirits, silk, spices and grain

You know them travellers, they can't be trusted
they'll take your whiskey, your women, your gold
but when they leave you, the world's done busted
'cause you'll wish you were with them on the road

They danced and they sang every stop along the way
they held every village enthralled
and when it came time for her to make her way
well she sailed for America

You know them travellers, they can't be trusted
they'll take your whiskey, your women, your gold
but when they leave you, the world's done busted
'cause you'll wish you were with them on the road

Well seven generations have come and gone
I do my best to honor all the people I come from
I've crossed a lot of borders to meet family and friends
so don't tell me immigration's about us versus them.

You know the traveling, it's what I trust in,
I don't need whiskey or women or gold
I'm making music until I'm busted
and I'll meet you somewhere along the road

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[floydbluethereal]

Great performance!

[musicmayi]

@floydbluethereal Thank you, thank you! I'm not counting, but somehow I think you always manage to get to the comment page first:) Much appreciated.

[musicmayi]

@Bisbonian cool. did it take a long time? the text seems like it wouldn't be that hard but the gestures, etc? is there any way to get them to sing? maybe I'll check it out:) Thanks!

[BaronK69]

@musicmayi Make it nex year instead, cause it turns out I won't be making either this year!

[Bisbonian]

@musicmayi I made it on a site called Xtranormal. You type in the text, and symbols for camera angles, hand gestures, and the like, and it makes a cartoon from it. I made up the conversation...based on a lot of conversations on VW forums. Yep, Mabel's got a little rust, but not too bad. She's in Arizona now, drying out :)

[musicmayi]

@Bisbonian who doesn't love a vw bus? rust and all... but that was a cool video - 'text to movie'? was that a real conversation you had with someone?

[Bisbonian]

@musicmayi Oh, I love my bus...that was all tongue in cheek.

[musicmayi]

@BaronK69 That would be awesome! Maybe something bluesy...? I like your voice, too! As for UWC... probably not. I just got back from my first trip to Nashville and woo-ee, was that an expensive road trip! Gasoline... blah. Fixing the car when I got back, double blah. I won't say 100% no, because heck, I like to be optimistic and you never know, right?  I could accidentally end up in Indiana in June ;p

[musicmayi]

Weird. I don't know how I missed getting all these comments. Maybe my youtube to email thingy is turned off??

[musicmayi]

@pfrogner  Thanks Rick, glad you liked it:)

[musicmayi]

@russbuss415 Right? I wish they were a little louder so everyone could hear them better. Ian and Dallin are both awesomely talented.