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Remember When
02:34
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Remember When
written by Mallory Graham and Scott Tyler
Copyright Penny Jar Publishing 2021
Hey, hey it’s you again
We pulled one over on all of them
When they said we can’t
We said we can
Isn’t it like us the storm we feared
Was the storm that would make the falls appear
On the canyon walls and the water ran clear.
Remember when All the trails are dust
It’s a big old world For Wee Bitty Us.
Hey, hey it’s me again
Swimming too close when there’s danger ahead
And chasing the view to the very edge.
Oh, and hey, remember when
We made it through hail and hell and then
The wild raspberries fell in our hands?
Remember when All the trails are mud
It’s a big old world For Wee Bitty Us
Remember when we keep growing up?
Remember when we got married?
Yeah, I remember that time we were falling in love.
Remember when all the trails are mud
It’s a big old world For Wee Bitty Us.
Remember when it’s just Wee Bitty Us.
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2. |
As Tight As I Can
03:09
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As Tight As I Can
written by Mallory Graham and Scott Tyler
Copyright Penny Jar Publishing 2021
Here I sit trying to write a song for you
While you read poetry you found in the yard
Words don’t come easy,
gotta stretch ‘em out before you push ‘em through
Having a love so strong for you was never hard
There are songs about leaving, songs about grieving
But here’s a song about holding on
As tight as I can
I’m gonna hold on to you --- as tight as I can
I love to kiss ya, when you’re madder than a diatribe
And when you smile out of the corner of your eye
You love surprises but you don’t like to be surprised
When the kick drum hits you in the heart it makes you cry
There are songs about leaving, sad songs for grieving
But here’s a song about holding on
As tight as I can, as tight as I can, as tight as I can
I’m gonna hold on to you as tight as I can
As tight as I can, as tight as I can, as tight as I can
I’m gonna hold on to you as tight as I can
I’ve heard to be a man in love, you gotta act like a man in love
As if a little hard work and spit shine will have to do
I turned it over and it tasted sour upon my tongue
cuz I’m a man in love whenever I’m with you
I’m a man in love whenever I’m with you.
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3. |
Alabama
02:26
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Alabama
written by Mallory Graham and Scott Tyler
Copyright Penny Jar Publishing 2021
I woke up this morning in Alabama
Just in time to see the sun wake up the trees,
Just in time to hear the trees wake up the birds,
Just in time to find that I woke up in Alabama--
While you were still asleep in Tennessee.
I'm not looking for a way to say I'm sorry.
Just because I fell in love with someone new,
Just because he said that he would love me, too,
Just because we're wide awake in love in Alabama--
While you are still asleep in Tennessee.
If there's room in your dreams for me,
Left a note on my pillow or a breadcrumb or three.
If it comes a surprise that I'm not by your side
When you wake up in Tennessee--
Just open your eyes.
I woke up this morning in Alabama.
Just in time to see the sun wake up the trees,
Just in time to hear the trees wake up the birds,
Just in time to find that I woke up in Alabama
Right next to the one who loves me.
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4. |
You
02:56
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You
written by Mallory Graham and Scott Tyler
Copyright Penny Jar Publishing 2020
If you're scared, I am scared, too,
But it wasn't you brave face that drew me to you.
So if you're going, I'm coming, too--
No, it's not for Fate's numbers or stars lining true;
It's you.
If you're home, I am home, too,
There's not a house that I've lived in that was home before you.
So if you're moving, I'm leaving, too--
It's a pile of bricks to a heart that is true
For you.
I've known you my whole life and never before--
Like the smell of leaves of the ground.
Wild in sight and quiet in sound,
Make me move with the wind and change with the light.
Your heart was broken in two
And the sound of its breaking shook dust from the moon.
My heart followed the tune.
My favorite part is where it was bruised.
I think we did good.
I think we did pretty good.
credits
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5. |
We Got 'em Beat
03:33
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We Got 'em Beat
written by Mallory Graham and Scott Tyler
Copyright Penny Jar Publishing 2021
More than all the oysters in Apalachicola
More than all the manatees in the Springs of Wakulla
More than all that Sopchoppy honey
More than all that oil rig money
More than all the waves of the sea--
We got ‘em beat.
If I had a nickel for every moment spent with you
I’d collect them and keep them in a jar
Then I’d pour it out with interest to whoever is in charge--
“Make it a double this time through.”
More than all the oysters in Apalachicola
More than all the manatees in the Springs of Wakulla
More than all that Sopchoppy honey
More than all that oil rig money
More than all the waves of the sea--
We got ‘em beat.
Every day is another day for us (we got ‘em beat)
Won’t take less what we’re meant to take more of.
Every day is another day for us (we got ‘em beat)
I’ll take the verse and you take the chorus.
When it turns out true this land will break into the blue
We won’t be goners floating wide and far
You can throw on the spare tire and I’ll get life vests for the dogs
Drifting is growing with me and you.
More than all the oysters in Apalachicola
More than all the manatees in the Springs of Wakulla
More than all that Sopchoppy honey
More than all that oil rig money
More than all the waves of the sea--
We got ‘em beat.
Every day is another day for us (we got ‘em beat)
Won’t take less what we’re meant to take more of.
Every day is another day for us (we got ‘em beat)
I’ll take the verse and you take the chorus.
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6. |
You Belong To Me
02:45
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You Belong To Me
written by Chilton Price, Pee Wee King, and Redd Stewart
Copyright Warner Chappell Music, Inc.,
Bluewater Music Corp.
See the pyramids along the Nile
Watch the sunrise from a tropic isle
Just remember darling all the while
You belong to me
See the marketplace in old Algiers
Send me photographs and souvenirs
Just remember when a dream appears
You belong to me
I'd be so alone without you
Maybe you'd be lonesome too in blue
Fly the ocean in a silver plane
See the jungle when it's wet with rain
Just remember till you're home again
You belong to me
I'd be so alone without you
Maybe you'd be lonesome too in blue
Fly the ocean in a silver plane
See the jungle when it's wet with rain
Just remember till you're home again
You belong to me
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7. |
When It's Over
03:04
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When It's Over
written by Mallory Graham and Scott Tyler
Copyright Penny Jar Publishing 2020
When all this is over, I'm gonna buy you a drink,
Gonna laugh til the stars in our eyes turn blue.
And our knees are gonna touch accidentally--
Wipe the rings from the bar while I roll my eyes at you.
When all this is over.
When all this is over, gonna take a long walk.
Just you and me on some Philly streets.
We won't mind that the line that we're in is too long--
And I'll nudge you in the side to try and get our eyes to meet.
When all this is over.
I'll worry less about the rent,
I won't remind you what you said the last time--
Before it was over.
And we'll spend more time with friends,
And I'll be more grateful than I was
Some of the time.
When it's over.
When all this is over, gonna move between the lines,
Be a dot on the map that is never still.
Gonna hop all the fences and get lost in all the crowds,
Gonna make this a promise, and with perspective lose my vow.
When all this is over.
I'll worry less about the rent,
I won't remind you what you said the last time--
Before it was over.
And we'll spend more time with friends,
And I'll be more grateful than I was
Most of the time.
At least from time to time.
When it's over.
credits
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8. |
Blue Earth, MN
03:08
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Blue Earth, MN
I come from dusty old desert and you come from circles of trees
We’ve been through white sand, red clay and ghost towns
How we got here well it still beats me
But we’re stuck here in Blue Earth, Minnesota
Just a pit stop off I-90 East
Those midwestern spires, even windmills grow tired
Of rows of cornfields and soybeans
I’m getting ready for bad news I’m bracing myself for the other shoe
If you move on don’t know what I will do
But my blue eyes will be shining Blue tears I’ll be crying
Here in Blue Earth, Minnesota without you
There’s goldenrod there by the roadside And a violet, flowering weed
It’s a beautiful town full of black and white cows You’ll find rainbows in the puddles of gasoline
Yes, right here in Blue Earth, Minnesota How much longer still waits to be seen
Here you’ll discover stay close to your lover If you’re out pumping gas and she’s got the keys
I’m getting ready for bad news I’m bracing myself for the other shoe
If you move on don’t know what I will do
But my blue eyes will be shining Blue tears I’ll be crying
Here in Blue Earth, Minnesota without you
And it’s bad news bad news bad news
While I brace myself for the other shoe
If you move on don’t know what I will do
But my blue eyes will be shining Blue tears I’ll be crying
Here in Blue Earth, Minnesota without you
Here in Blue Earth, Minnesota without you
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9. |
Wahoo!
03:18
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Wahoo!
written by Mallory Graham and Scott Tyler
The spaces between us are as big as all those things we haven’t said
So step back, Darling,
Cause you don’t know what could fall out of this big lovely wedded--
Finger, gone done linger
Far too long and now here comes another ringer.
I’d tell you I love you, if it wasn’t true but, Baby, I do!
My brain goes wahoo, wahoo, wahoo
For all that I’ve got to do, to do
To keep the baboom, baboom, baboom
Of my heart beating for you, from you
These love songs, says my momma, are the best damn therapy I’ve ever had
But, Baby, Darling, how else do I say I’ve got it bad (I’ve got it bad!)
My brain goes wahoo, wahoo, wahoo
For all that I’ve got to do, to do
To keep the baboom, baboom, baboom
Of my heart beating for you, from you
My brain goes wahoo, wahoo, wahoo, wahoo
I’ve got to do, to do, to do, do do
Baboom, baboom, baboom
Of my heart beating for you, from you
Oh my heart’s beating, wahoo!
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10. |
La Vie en rose
03:48
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They're in French
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11. |
Can't Not
03:39
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Open up a window, I did it again
Gotta air out the kitchen for the words I said
You know I only wanna make you frown--
Not madder than a hornet when the sun goes down.
Oh, I can't not--
When the flowers are blooming in our back lot
When the grass needs cuttin' and the patio's hot
Do I love you, do I not?
Oh, I can't not.
I like it better when we work all day,
I can mind my temper with the sun on my face
Til you burn the bread for the hundredth time--
It's all right--
I love them peanut butter sandwiches with grapes on the side.
Dancing 'round the kitchen, tryin' to reel me in,
It's not the movies, but it's what you get.
You're the balloon to my straight pin.
Uh-huh, Honey.
Let's play doubles I owe you one
A night when trouble will hold its tongue.
The math doesn't work, no we just can't win.
(But) if shit and two make eight, I'd do it again.
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12. |
Mess Around
02:52
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I don't wanna be your sweetheart
I don't wanna be your dear
I don't wanna be your sugar drop, your honey pop
Your doo-diddly-did
I just wanna mess around with you
And pretend we're just friends.
When anybody asks us what we is,
I don't wanna talk about it--
I just wanna kiss.
I don't wanna be your partner
I don't wanna be your wife
I don't wanna find the long term benefits of sticking it out
with somebody through marital strife.
I just wanna mess around with you
And ten years away--
They'll find us kissing in a bar and they'll ask if we're married
I'll say, "Oh hell no, I just met him today."
I don't wanna be your settle down
I don't wanna be the one.
I don't wanna be your last dance or
Any of those sappy ass things we write in our country songs.
I just wanna mess around with you
And when rent is due--
I hope that all of our love songs can pay it
(you mean all those sappy ass love songs we wrote?)
so we can stay in bed all day and--
(we can do that anyway and just go broke)
Let's not say it, let's just play it--
And maybe mess around a little more, too.
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The Rough & Tumble Haverhill, New Hampshire
The Rough & Tumble are a dumpster-folk/thriftstore Americana band consisting of Mallory Graham and Scott Tyler. Only This Far, their latest full length record is out May 12, 2023. "The bottom line is these are just quality songs, well written, well played, well sung and arranged, and a pleasure from start to end."- AmericanaUK ... more
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