The Rough & Tumble's Holiday Awareness Campaign

by The Rough & Tumble

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Join The Rough & Tumble in their year long effort to fight for those tens and twenties of holidays that get upstaged each year by Christmas. Those fallen holidays that just need a moment of your time, a song to sing, and a heart to tug on. Download the holiday song, watch old holiday family video, and keep checking back– twice a month you’ll discover a new holiday you may have forgotten about if you hadn’t stopped by at all.

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released 01 January 2013

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tags: 2013 celebration folk the rough and tumble ambient folk chord organ fun holiday minimalist americana new year pretty white noise Nashville

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The Rough & Tumble met a long time ago, reminded themselves why they were making music every time they ran into each other, and finally joined forces. Now they do everything together, including grocery shopping and walking Tumble's dog. They also consistently coordinate their outfits. ... more

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Track Name: Goal List
Goal List
by The Rough & Tumble

The Sun's been missing now
For hours and hours today
We'd put a warrant out
If we knew it's name

There is no midnight here
No countdown, baby, please don't count me out
How 'bout another year,
Oh-oh!
How 'bout another year?

Write down your goal list, baby
Write down your goal list, sweetheart
Write down your goal list, baby
Write down your goal list, sweetheart
Put me on it

oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

How 'bout another year
To write down the things that we should take to heart
How 'bout another start
Oh-oh
How 'bout another start

And if you've got time inside your busy schedule
I'd love to draw inside your tired lines
And if you feel like you're starting to unravel
I'd love to draw inside your tired lins
Track Name: MLK BLVD
Days Inn has left us days out from here
Smoke so thick, can't find our way out of this hotel
Oh well, oh well.

MLK BLVD in Chattanooga
MLK BLVD

Seven days to introduce you to my hometown
Fog so thick the roads all look like sidewalks

MLK BLVD in Fresno
MLK BLVD

Landlocked love, I'm going out to sea tomorrow
It's not cars or boats or countryside keeping me away
Okay? Okay.

MLK BLVD Akron, OH
MLK BLVD
Track Name: Punxsutawney
PunxsutawneyPhiladelphiAltoona Will never find a way to Pittsburgh never find a way to New York City Streets have left us stranded on an island of a townhouses are looking more like shadowboxes lined up in our trunk

And you're always paying tolls
And you're always paying tolls

Moontownships are sailing out to see if there could be another route 80 is jammed all of the way on down to Reading this damn map will make me carsick if we don't pull over there is the same sign we saw for Poconos 'bout 40 minutes back

And you're always paying tolls
And you're always paying tolls
You can't find your way home

WilkesbarrErieBradfordsWilliamsporterRoad will keep us winding back like those explorers Clark and Lewistown have never crossed our rivers more abundant than the time we got to spend our last few dollars on a Hershey bar and gas to get us back

And you're always paying tolls
And you're always paying tolls
You can't find your way home
Track Name: Unlove Me
Unlove me, darling,
please unwind your soft and pretty fingers
from around mine,
do it right now.
We'll celebrate the anniversary
that we both lost out on us.
Unlove me, darling, unwind.

It's a long way to you right now.
That upstairs window has kept me on the ground.
If I go up, I might-could come back down.
It's a long way to you now.

Under the needle lies
a soft and pretty voice that calls me elsewhere,
and I'm going.
Going right now.
We'll undo our grand mistakes and unpack
all our boxes, baby.
Unlove me darling, unwind.
Track Name: Lease Agreement
Lonesome in love, I was lucky in loss
I did what I could to have messed it all up
Arson was fine, if I'd had the guts
Well I'm fresh out of cash and I'm shhh...out of luck.

This was a case of fire
This was a case of water
This was a case of damage by an act of God

With those showers coming down our skin hurling off its steam
I'm still looking for you in the water at my feet
On those sticky summer days are you still looking for me?
I still smell the Irish Spring my last lover'd given me.

Earthquakes, tornadoes, those dishes in the sink and clothes on the floor, tsunamis, and flashfloods, cracks in the sidewalk and unmowed lawns, inflation, eviction, you're a martyr for a cause that I'd never even heard of, impractical distance, impossible work situation, that trip to Virginia that I took with another
Track Name: Things That Used to Hang From my Ceiling
I didn't miss you as much as you told me I would
I didn't miss you at all when you'd gone
I didn't miss you as much when you kissed me and said
I'd have a sad face for all of my days

I didn't miss all the strings that you tied to the ceilings
To display a tiny world that you'd made me
There's relief in the room with that fishing line moon
Just a feeling, I'm so glad just to see
That my ceiling's a ceiling

I didn't miss you as much as I knew that I should
I didn't miss you all seven months long
I didn't miss you as much as I missed going out
In that shirt that I'd wear just on Sundays

I didn't miss all the words that you taped to the ceiling
All those plastered "I love you's" to save me
There's relief in the room with that fishing line tune
Just a feeling, I'm so glad just to see
That my ceiling's a ceiling

Oh you couldn't fool me now
And I would have sold you out
If I'd known that you'd know you would leave
Track Name: I Fooled You Again
I fooled you again
You know, my dear, that I fooled you again
You thought we would marry
I thought we'd try friends
It's April 1st my dear and I fooled you again

Your dog don't bark at me no more
Your dog don't bark at me no more
Let her lay down with you on that kitchen floor
Your dog don't need to bark at me no more

I fooled you again
You know, my dear, that I fooled you again
You thought we would marry
I thought we'd try friends
It's April 1st my dear and I fooled you again

Funny the difference
Funny the day
Funny the difference a day will make
Track Name: Weatherman
Go ask the weather you're not listening to me
Go ask the weather you're not listening
You're 'bout as temperate as an April storm
Go ask the weather...not me

It's the kind of weather to make an addict quit
Pack up your jacket, 8AM forecast calls for sadder yet

Go ask the weather you're not listening
Go ask the weather you're not listening

Go blow your smoke into the cold
Go blow your smoke and watch your billows bellow
But that's no hello to me

This rolling over will make a lover quit
Pack up your matches, 2AM forecast calls for colder yet
Track Name: Chicken
Come on Chicken drive me down
Drive me down and out of this city
Come on Chicken drive me down
Drive me down and out

What's this place got Birmingham is not?
Armadillos in Alabama
Drive me down and out of this city
Heading down to Louisiana
Drive me down and out

Jackson Miss has room maybe for us?
Some Northern air might cool us down
Drive me down and out of this city
Flip a coin for the Caroline
Drive me down and out

These traveling bones won't pay our rent
Can't pay you back for what I've spent
Track Name: Gracie
God couldn't hear what God couldn't give,
God, he don't listen to prayers, anymore.
He left a note on the door saying, "Out to lunch--
Be back when I punch this last nail in the coffin."
My angel's just beyond the grave,
God don't let her sing here,
Dear God, good God, Gracie.

Gracie come home your mother's been lonely
And hollering things in the dark.

Gracie, I know it's been hard when you're living alone,
God, I know, it's been hard for me.
Gracie, I swear there are good ones out there,
But none of them's waited as long as me.
I found you in Philly and lost you and then,
Caught your face in the crowd and then lost you again.

Gracie, I can see you in that pretty church dress,
Your eyes baptism blue and hymnal in red.
Girl, weren't we taught how to be the blessed--
Weren't we?
God, Grace would've been sufficient for me.