Clay Pigeons (two ways: John Prine and Blaze Foley)

[fishwax]

John Prine's cover (which is how I first heard it): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju9hiiHCf6s

Blaze Foley's original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB_2CUj3y6Y

Both beautiful :)

Clay Pigeons
(the lyrics in the Prine cover are slightly different)

I'm goin' down to the Greyhound Station, gonna get a ticket to ride
Gonna find that lady with two or three kids and sit down by her side
Ride 'til the sun comes up and down around me 'bout two or three times
Smokin' cigarettes in the last seat
Tryin' to hide my sorrow from the people I meet

And get along with it all
Go down where the people say "y'all"
Sing a song with a friend
Change the shape that I'm in,
And get back in the game,
And start playin' again

I'd like to stay but I might have to go to start over again
Might go back down to Texas, might go to somewhere that I've never been
And get up in the mornin' and go out at night
And I won't have to go home
Get used to bein' alone
Change the words to this song
Start singin' again

I'm tired of runnin' 'round lookin' for answers to questions that I already know
I could build me a castle of memories just to have somewhere to go
Count the days and the nights that it takes to get back in the saddle again
Feed the pigeons some clay
Turn the night into day
Start talkin' again, when I know what to say

I'm goin' down to the Greyhound Station, gonna get a ticket to ride
Gonna find that lady with two or three kids and sit down by her side
Ride 'til the sun comes up and down around me 'bout two or three times
Smokin' cigarettes in the last seat
Tryin' to hide my sorrow from the people I meet
And get along with it all

Go down where the people say "y'all"
Feed the pigeons some clay
Turn the night into day
Start talkin' again
When I know what to say

[hobbit709]

1. Blaze was one of a kind.

[fishwax]

3. I'm trying to get my hands on the Drunken Angel documentary

I haven't seen it, and alas I don't know much about Blaze Foley, other than this and "If I Could Only Fly."

Do love the song, though, and I plan on looking into more of Foley ...

[Curmudgeoness]

2. Prine is one of a kind.

[fishwax]

4. he's definitely a treasure

Great singer, great songwriter, great storyteller :)

[amerikat]

5. Lucinda Williams song about Blaze Foley.

Drunken Angel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cckroKLPsqg

[fishwax]

6. great song

:toast:

[amerikat]

7. I've always been a John Prine fan.

from way back(30 years or so) I wondered about Foley for 15. I'll check him out.
I'm a bit amazed that at least in that song they sing alike and play guitar alike.
Thanks.