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Alan wrote this marvelous little two chord fingerpicking ditty and the 1st verse. The rest is a result of beer and an affection for trains.
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Lot of energy in the writing - love the chorus, particularly "Echoes of another town callin' out my name."
Interestingly, or otherwise, I just started a new one this morning called "I Stopped Runnin' "
One verse goes
Used to dodge and weave
Left it all behind
Never took a second look
Never let it cross my mind.
Spent more time shoring up
Boundaries in my brain
Than smelling the coffee
And rememberin' names
hi jerome a good railroad bum song,well done....stay cool
Hey Jerome!
Like the hobo freedom feel.
As to the music, do you play this one on the Diddly Bo? 
Not bad at all. really like the chorus. recording??
Me, Al, a mandolin, and a half box of Pabst Blue Ribbon..
http://www.4shared.com/file/125355975/9 … ckson.html
Jerome, good song.
Amazing what ye can do with only two chords isnt it.
I clicked on the link but I never got good sound. I had to turn my volume up max to hear a faint sound.
IS this just me ?
Sat and played this song just now and I like it, good lyrics.
Ken
I dunno. I'm playing it through some pretty beefed up KRK near field monitors, which can be obnoxiously loud, so I'm a bad judge.
Try checking the media widget volume on the player, as well as the volume on your PC. Alternately, you could download it and try it in some other player.
Hey Ken,
I just went and checked and when I bounced the thing to disk, I had the master fader way down low. I just re-exported it with the fader set higher, so you should be able to hear things now.
Them KRK's rawk!
superb jerome,
I like it a lot.
good work. Loved the mandolin part and good voice for this too
Ken
I like it, kind of a Woody Guthrie feel simple music but with a feeling and a story very nice 
Hi Jerome
I gotta tell you that I really enjoyed the listen and the read.
Awesome Chorus.
C]You might think I'm crazy, or maybe I'm insane
[G]When I get those troubles, I catch a northbound train
[C]I hear the whistle blowing, they all sound the same
[G] Echoes of another town callin' out my name
Kudos to Alan for coming up with this very cool tune.
I love the Mandy.
Is this how you guys write all the time?
Kenny
We have pretty varied tastes overall, which is why we're all over the map stylistically. We all write, so whatever someone brings to the table is going to be OK. We've got straight punk and country songs in our songbook, too.
Al and I have very similar styles and tastes, in that we're both somewhat minimalists, and we like Americana, folk, and bluegrass. Al likes "story" songs while I prefer to write "vignettes," and he's a lot more particular about a song being "done" than I am. But overall, it works out well.
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