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Folk Singers' Lament (Rag Time Hag)

from Nonsemble by Eli Elkus

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If and when I get them riches...
I'll send help to warsh them dishes
and take you out to see that great wide world
You got two good hands now, honey
and I'll never see that money...
You can be my rag time gal

Go on and pack my bags and warm my muffins
Lord ain't gimme me time for nuthin'
Wishin', bitchin', dickin', and a ditchin'
leave that teevee in the kitchen...
one of these days I'll come on pickin'.
Show them kids the no good they've been missin'

Ain't got no wives in Chino but, baby...
I ain't got one in Cherokee
no Idahos, no Chino Dolls, no sweet Virginias
Tell ya, we don't get into specifics
talkin' 'bout that North Pacific
Vegas I'm as vague as brown on wood

But, If and when I'm gettin' them riches...
I'll send help to warsh them dishes
and take you out to see that great wide world
But you got two good hands now, honey
and I'll never see that money...
You can be my rag time gal

Sure I got me a misses in Mississippi...
takes me dancin' down in Dixie
calls it honkey tonkin' where she come from.
But cities, country sides, or coastal, darliin'
you stop writin' and I go postal
'Sippi she don't miss me when I'm gone

If and when I get them riches...
I'll send help to warsh them dishes
and take you out to see that great wide world
But you got two good hands now, honey
and I'll never see that money...
You can be my rag time gal
oh, you can be my rag time gal
yeah... You can be my rag time hag

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from Nonsemble, released April 12, 2019

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Eli Elkus Northampton, Massachusetts

Eli Elkus is a traveling musical storyteller, songmaker, and folk activist. He began sculpting his craft as a young troubadour fishin' for songs by the riversides and busking in the streets. And so it went... The lazy-eyed dreamer and his familiar Bronco the hound wonder wander the US byways bringing folk music to the folks, freewheelin' in their road sweet home - 'JeBus'.
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