Slinger

from DISTANT by Stripmall Ballads

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I was her first / should’ve never been / guess it was a mistake / the way I let her in
But I didn’t tell her lies / to make her want me more / she wants me anyway / from years before
When I was just a kid / a slinger on the street / they knew what Jimmy did / the guy you wanna meet
Slinger, drug slinger / Slinger, oh my slinger

A town bound to fail / another hard-luck tale / she’s too young for shame / she’ll never be the same
I knew she had a man / wasn’t my concern / she was a river girl / he was too good for her
Jesus on the prowl / he bought her everything / he wants a young girl now / and he makes me sick

I did it anyway / I knew I was her only chance / to know something more than circumstance
Then it all went down / a man died that night / it was self-defense / but that don’t make it right
I don’t have no regrets / you get what you deserve / but I can’t forget / I left her on the curb /
After what she saw / begging me to take her / far from Wichita / the place I knew would break her
Slinger, gun slinger / Slinger, drug slinger / Slinger, oh my slinger

So I did what I did / I ain’t made for prison / they’d lock me up for it / they’d lock me up for living / who wears a bad luck charm? / a slinger on the streets / I didn’t mean no harm / the guy you wanna meet

(by Morris Paul Lippens)

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from DISTANT, released February 15, 2020

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Stripmall Ballads Maryland

Stripmall Ballads (Phillips Saylor Wisor) is outsider folk music from the odd state of Maryland, USA.

Since 2002, Wisor has been an active figure in the folk underground as half of the widely celebrated old-time group The Shiftless Rounders or as the touring banjoist with IBMA award-winning King Wilkie. ... more

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