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    Written before, during, and after a family severance, this collection grapples with boundaries, heartbreak, and what it means to Say So. All songs written by The Rough & Tumble, and recorded with Dave Coleman in East Nashville, TN.

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lyrics

Belly Up
Mallory Graham & Scott Tyler

Brother climbs up them bending birches.
I stay grounded and watch the sky.
Skinny legs shimmy up a pulled-back catapult.
When I am a boy, I will climb that high.

Mother loves Nature, and Nature’s an animal.
Man keeps trying to catch her eye.
Sets his sails across Ontario--
She won’t settle for land and sky.

I saw the Hand that sank the Three Brother
(Pretoria and a Hundred Others)
Pretoria and a hundred others.
(The Hand of the Lord isn’t Lakeside Poor)
The Hand of the Lord isn’t lakeside poor
Across Michigan and Superior.

Don’t be tame for me.
Don’t be brave for me.
Don’t behave for me.
Don’t come saving me.

When the whole thing goes belly up, belly up
(Belly up, Belly up and we’ve had enough)
And the ice on Huron is breaking up
(Breaking up, breaking up, we’ve had enough)
God was never looking for a strong-armed man
Or a woman to wait and stand by him.

Don’t be tame for me.
Don’t be brave for me.
Don’t behave for me.
Don’t come saving me.
No need to pray for me,
Just feel the weight with me.

Ima climb up them bending birches.
Makes Erie look like a paradise.
Moon breaks glass of sky and water.
I didn’t know ‘til I climbed that high.

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from We're Only Family If You Say So, released February 19, 2021
Written and performed by The Rough & Tumble
Mallory Graham: vocals, accordion, banjolele, slide whistle, bolt in a barrel, noises
Scott Tyler: vocals, acoustic guitar, resonator guitar
Taylor Donskey: standup bass, electric bass
Chris Benelli: drums, percussion

Engineered and mixed by Dave Coleman
at Howard's Apartment Studio
Produced by Dave Coleman and The Rough & Tumble
Mastered by Alex McCollough at True East Mastering, Nashville

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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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