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Don't suck the Stones on the Railway

from A Gropeof Foolish Poke Songs by Jim Bryce

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It's a hard old life, and it's a crazy world to live in
and sometimes I get so tired I just can't see,
But there's a light which shines always when my soul is faraways.
It's the old religion Papa taught to me

When I was just a little lad, my papa said to me
"Now's the time, my little lad to decide what you wanna be.
don't take no stick from Bibles or from slick philosophy.
Just play you moments as they come."

So I hung around for sixty years for gettin what he said.
I dabbled here and dibbled there till I dang near lost my head,
and when I'd more or less decided life was better dead,
my papa's words came joggin' back to me.

"Don't suck the stones on the railway, 'cause you don't know who's sucked them stones before.
If you don't wanna fall, better not to suck at all, but if you got to suck the pebbles on the shore.”

Now here's the time to shoot my line.
Here's what you gotta do: shoot no lines but spend your time just as it comes to you.
Don't take not stick from noone but don't give none in return.
Just play your moments till day you burn.

"Don't suck the stones on the railway, 'cause you don't know who's sucked them stones before.
If you don't wanna fall, better not to suck at all, but if you got to suck the pebbles on the shore."

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from A Gropeof Foolish Poke Songs, released April 19, 2019
All the mgubbins by Jim Bryce

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Jim Bryce Edinburgh, UK

Jim Bryce's music ranges from rockish to folkish to jazzish to music-hallish, to material which doesn't tick any boxes. He has also written for theatre, concert hall (squeaky and non- squeaky), film and radio programmes for the under nines.

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