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This Ain't Living

from Ghosts by J. P. Whipple (Barefoot John Whipple)

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I know my Dobro probably better than I know anything outside of myself. Each fret has long since been memorized. I know its moods, its strengths and weaknesses. With that in mind, the songs we make together have much more freedom. I have no need to force a structure. To play chords in the conventional sense. I don’t play this guitar and sing. We both sing.

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This Ain’t Living (it’s getting by)

She’s home late.
Worked both jobs today.
He says “There’s dinner in the kitchen.
Waiting in the microwave…”

He says “The rattle is getting worse.
Gonna have to take the truck in.
And the boy’s fever hasn’t broke.
Gonna have to see the doctor again.”
She says “If it ain’t one thing it’s another”
“This ain’t living… It’s getting by”.

She says “Close the window.
It’s starting to get cold again.
It’s gonna be a long winter.
Things are gonna get pretty thin.
The bills on the fridge are just gonna get bigger.”

He says “If we can get through this… somehow
I can always find work in the summertime.
Maybe we can get ahead next year.
Because you know that this ain’t living… it’s getting by.”

She says “Turn on the TV.
I don’t want to think on this right now.”

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from Ghosts, released January 19, 2013

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J. P. Whipple (Barefoot John Whipple) Salt Lake City, Utah

J. P. Whipple is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has spent a life drifting across the country singing old time roots, blues, and country.

He is a founding member of the psychedelic band Tycoon Machete: tycoonmachete.bandcamp.com ... more

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