Counterfeiters' Blues-Corb Lund

[ti:Counterfeiters' Blues] [ar:Corb Lund] [al:Counterfeit Blues] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Counterfeiters' Blues - Corb Lund [00:27.59]He said drink deeply of the wine [00:29.80]My friend breathe fully in the smoke [00:32.62]Eat the fish that he conjured [00:34.75]This is the bread that jesus broke [00:37.72]This is grape juice and cheap vodka [00:39.81]Man this isn't even wine [00:41.67] [00:42.91]I'm smokin shredded cardboard [00:45.09]Eating sawdust baked with lime [00:47.30]This is not the truth you tell me [00:49.88]But some terrible evil joke [00:52.36] [00:52.95]Sounds to me like the counterfeit blues have got you by the throat [00:57.30] [01:01.37]There seem to me an awful lot of charltans round here [01:06.53]Hustlers cheats and anglers fixers sharps and mutineers [01:11.25]The factory and subterfuge and corporato cheat [01:16.19]Conspire to fast reduce us to the stamping of our feet [01:20.95]The lords of mass producto mass product at quite a pace [01:25.17] [01:25.89]It won't be long these counterfeit blues'll run the whole damn place [01:30.39] [02:08.64]These notes that you've been paying with are a little bit too green [02:13.28] [02:13.83]The printing's off the ink has got a polyester sheen [02:18.50]Your bill has grown too large and now you'll have to work it off [02:23.29]And your snout will have to make its way [02:25.71]From the far end of the trough [02:27.84]You got suckered into trying to make your money overnight [02:32.63] [02:33.36]Looks to me like the counterfeit blues [02:35.54]Will be doggin you all of your life [02:37.54] [02:46.49]The worn out western had i got no longer smells like horse [02:51.28] [02:51.89]I can't afford to keep one around [02:53.98]Now that rooster's gone of course [02:56.49]I guess i've left it all behind me now [02:59.01]Except for when i write [03:01.30]And sing ancestral praises of the ones who knew that life [03:05.95] [03:06.56]Yes years of rocka rolla have extracted quite a fee [03:10.77] [03:12.04]Maybe them old counterfeit blues have been creepin up on me