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G For Jesus

from Okay, Crawdad. by Nick Shoulders

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G for Jesus

On a lowly night like any other in a place I’m known to go, to croon a song to a patient throng of folks that you might know. I sang the songs of hard times, hard feelings and hardened hearts, but nothing seemed to grab them until a patron he remarked: won’t you play it in:

G for Jesus, and let your holy spirit show. Keep your pains and your midnight trains and onto higher ground you’ll go, don’t sing the songs about whiskey and I’m so lonesome that mama tried, play it in G for Jesus and you might leave this bar alive.

So I swallowed hard and scanned the bar for an exit that I might tread, it occurred that I might could see the light if it meant I could earn my bread. So strummed this chord to the waiting lord, and fixed him in my gaze, and no minor key escaped me as Gabrielle’s trumpet played: and I played it in:

G for Jesus, I let my holy spirit show. I kept my pains and my midnight trains and onto higher ground I’ll go. I won’t sing the songs about whiskey and I’m so lonesome that mama tried, I’ll play it in G for Jesus, though you don’t leave this world alive, no you won’t leave this world alive, none of us leave this world alive.

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from Okay, Crawdad., released December 19, 2019

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Nick Shoulders Fayetteville, Arkansas

Here to put the "Try" in country. Wielding a high yodel and whistle crafted from a lifetime chasing lizards through the Ozark hills, Nick combines his family's deep ties to southern traditional music with years singing to empty street corners to create this hybridized form of raucous country music: born of some dark holler and bred to be stomped into the New Orleans dancefloors it now calls home. ... more

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