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Digging Down to Find the Core

from Lineage by Farewell Friend

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Song by Tom Troyer
(ASCAP)

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Digging down to find the core
Sweeping up a rusty bottomed vessel
don’t know what this ship is for
except work, live, and die.
And I see it all the time
See my old friend Jones
He was hanging round the neck
Around closing time
Singing “Who will call the family?
And who will be the barer of such bad news
and who will pick up the tab
or clean these dishes up
or cut the noose?”
Now my sweeping days are over
I said good bye to that old ship and shore
I have a nice plot of land
I call my Mrs. “Higher Ground”
and “If-you-ask-it’s-all-the-same-to-me”
Still I wake up scared some nights
Singing “Who will call the family?
And who will be the barer of such bad news
and who will pick up the tab
or clean these dishes up
or cut the noose?”
Digging down to find the core
And if you see a dead man walking
Don’t you know what a grave is for?
But when you hear them call out your Name
You won’t be thinking so much
You won’t be asking your questions
you wont be calling your name.
Singing “Who will call the family?
And who will be the barer of such bad news
and who will pick up the tab
or clean these dishes up
or cut the noose?”
Who? Who? Who?

credits

from Lineage, released June 11, 2018
David Wimbish Drums. Michael Khuen piano. Tom Troyer bass, acoustic, lead guitar and vocals. Virginia Wimmer Violin. Engineered by Tom Troyer. Mixed by David Wimbish. Mastered by Tom Troyer.

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Farewell Friend North Carolina

Farewell Friend is a North Carolina based folk rock band. Farewell Friend’s music is first and foremost an exploration of poetry and narrative

Tom - singer, songwriter, guitar
Evan - upright bass, moog, rickenbacker
Caleb - violin and telecaster
Zac - drums
Featuring Kevan Chandler on harmonica and Galen Clark on mandolin.

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