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Teeny Tiny Folk Band

from Cardboard and Christmas Lights by The Rough & Tumble

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An autobiographical account of the ins and outs and ups and downs of being a teeny tiny traveling folk band... and also a human.

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Well, we've been traveling round and round
From the Great Northeast to Nashville down to Florida--
We don't travel now, for the winter and snow.

Scrape a little money together at the redneck bar,
Put all the wine on the credit card--
"Did we make enough?"
We can fill the car with unleaded gasoline!

If you've had enough, or had near enough
Sick and tired of that old man looking down on us--
Come together, we think we've got a plan:
Save a Teeny Tiny Traveling Folk Band.

Save the songwriter, the snake charmer,
iconoclast and local farmer,
Save a little for your sons and your daughters
Before it's all gone.

God bless the ones who feel too much,
Who talk too loud, who have had enough.
Who break what stands between all of us--
the void, the lie, the truth.

And it's hard to make a little money in this damn town.
When you're only a folk singer, a songwriter,
A bartender, a freelance uber driver,
A waiter and a web designer.

We're all beggars and dealers and backdoor barterers,
Commonly referred to as Kickstarters,
Have all your friends finally unfollowed you?

If you've had enough, or had near enough,
Sick and tired of that old man looking down on us,
Come together,
The Rough & Tumble's got a plan.
Come together,
We can fool our Uncle Same.
Come together,
There's no wish like this command.
Save a Teeny, Tiny, Traveling Folk Band!

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from Cardboard and Christmas Lights, released February 7, 2017

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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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