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Dive Bar Blues (Crossing Russell Road)

from The Water Balloon by Sam Russell & the Harborrats

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I had the dive-bar blues when Diana disappeared
I had the dive-bar blues, I was filling up with fear

Katie became Libby
while I had to wait
to go crossing Russell Road
back into my home state
south of Kenosha County
on Wisconsin border lies
a road with bridge over
you stand on between two sides

Katie became Libby
years after the courtroom
Katie sat next to Mom
Dad was missing from the pews
a softball game in summer
Libby in bleachers
I told her if she'd come
I'd tell my real name to her

I had the dive-bar blues when Diana disappeared
I had the dive-bar blues, I was filling up with fear

of crossing Russell Road
of crossing Russell Road
of crossing Russell Road

don't misunderstand me
I just needed to be
back in the water and again baptized
I should have been a brother
but tried to be a lover
when the faith I was born in got left behind

Libby in the light
points to sundial
Katie in picture
burning in the pile
it's unfair to consider
and wrong to reminisce
how a past did once vanish
with just one perfect kiss

I had the dive-bar blues when Diana disappeared
I had the dive-bar blues, I was filling up with fear

of crossing Russell Road
of crossing Russell Road
of crossing Russell Road
crossing Russell Road
crossing Russell Road
crossing Russell Road
crossing Russell Road

credits

from The Water Balloon, released June 5, 2012
Sam Russell-vocals, guitar
James Apollo-vocals, keyboards, harmonica
Michael Spaly-electric violin
Allison Tulloss-vocals
Kjell Anderson-fiddle
Carey Rayburn-trumpet
Toby Hanson-accordion
Ken Nottingham-upright bass
Schuyler Jones-electric bass
Dave Forrester-drums
Isaac Chirino-percussion

recorded and mixed by Conrad Uno at Egg Studios, Seattle WA

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