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Won't Be Troubled

by The Meadows Brothers

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1.
UNDERSTANDING YOU – I. & D. Meadows I’m stuck inside this second story bedroom you’re driving me out of my mind I’m just waiting for a call, and I’m waiting for it all to come crashing down this time Ever since that last night, it hasn’t been alright you’ve got me puzzled, that’s for sure You can’t put me to rest, but I haven’t passed the test it’s all the sickness with no cure CHORUS I’ve got some hoping, some living, a whole lotta loving to do Before I come around and get to understanding you I’ve got some thinking, some breathing, a whole lotta nothing to do Before I come around and get to understanding you You’re always in a hurry, I do my best not to worry About those boys you’ve been hanging around I’ve been keeping off your back, but I can’t be keeping track Of all the jokers in this town Sometimes our neighbors hear you screaming, and I just get to dreaming That our love is just fine But every once in a while, I can still get you to smile And that’s always worth my time chorus Sometimes our neighbors hear you screaming, and I just get to dreaming That our love is just fine But every once in a while, I can still get you to smile And that’s always worth my time I’ve got some hoping, some living, a whole lotta loving to do Before I come around and get to understanding you I’ve got some thinking, some breathing, a whole lotta nothing to do Before I come around and get to understanding y
2.
Julieanna 03:59
JULIEANNA – I. Meadows You drive me cross country crazy With your west coast smiles And your east coast elegance And your southern wiles A sweet and lowdown vision, a spirit from above To sway my whole world over To stay in your sweet love Julieanna, with your dark hair hanging low What you don’t want to tell Well I don’t want to know I want you, Julieanna, and you only have to be A song, Julieanna, to me I see you lying there with your smile all aglow And your pale skin in the moonlight My early summer’s rose The way we were together All those things that drive me mad But you just didn’t want me the way I want you bad Julieanna, with your arms like a willow tree What you can’t take with you Well You can leave with me I love you, Julieanna, and you only have to be A song, Julieanna, to me You’ve been pierced to the heart by the steeples Thrown to the wind like a sinners prayer Been the sweetheart of all the American main streets Once you soared, now you’re floored, don’t you care Julieanna, with your bridal train in tow You have gone your way, and I’ll just have to go I need you, Julieanna, even if you’ll only be A song, Julieanna, to me
3.
Ghosts 03:19
GHOSTS – R. Flynn and I. Meadows Jesse’s boy was tired and cranky So she sent him out in the yard She’d been separating keepsakes From all those things you can’t discard Like that bolo tie from Reno And that medal from the war All the things you can’t see coming Are the things you can’t ignore CHORUS Say goodbye to Sweet Virginia Say hello to San Antone It don’t matter much in the long run Now they’re gone, gone, gone Frankie’s job it was a hassle Didn’t turn out like he planned Summer days they just got longer And his back it just got tanned Jesse’s mom she died last winter In a room just down the hall So they froze the mortgage payment What good’s pride before a fall? CHORUS It was a dream like any other ‘Til the faucets all ran cold. I was young when I woke up And by evening I was old. CHORUS
4.
A TRAIN MAKES A SAD, SAD SOUND – I. Meadows I’ve never worked on the railroad I never took that boxcar line But I’ve stayed up until that southern sun Came on up and I heard freight number 805 It winds it’s way down through the mountains Across the river and over the land And that whistle just makes me miss you Even more then I can stand CHORUS It pains to be so lonesome And to not have you around It’s true what they say ‘Bout feeling blue, feeling down Well that train makes a sad, sad sound I’m standing on a Nashville hilltop That hill on fifteen south I’m listening to that train And it’s lonely song There’s no way that I’m sleeping now I wish it was heading homeward So I could jump right on And ride it a thousand miles To love you all night long. CHORUS
5.
LONESOME PINE CO. – I. Meadows I see them out there everyday On that distant southern ridge line Cutting pine down for their pay And camping by the roadside That road it leads to Cumberland There ain’t much to see there It’s a ten mile walk to the package store And they walk there every weekend We’ve all known a tree that won’t be cut We’ve all heard a song that can’t be sung We’ve had not-so-precious time to sit lonely We’ve all known the lonesome pine company With a heavy heart and a blade that shines The saw man farms his timber It’s hot as hell, but the nights get cold Just two months ‘til September I got out of Maine when I was young So the logging wouldn’t take me Day in day out of swinging axe Would surely serve to break me We’ve all known a war that can’t be won We have seen a long day set with the sun We’ve watched the hours roll on by, sitting lonely We’ve all known the lonesome pine company
6.
Trouble 03:16
TROUBLE I’ve been lying out awake most every night And I’m running out of ways to feel alright My wallets almost empty, and the answers are all wrong I’m troubled now, but I won’t be troubled long My baby left me all alone and blue What the hell’s a worried man to do? She did cause me to weep, and she did cause me to moan I’m troubled now, but I won’t be troubled long They said I could spot trouble from a mile away But I let that same old trouble in with me today Nothing is forever, it’ll soon be gone I’m troubled now, but I won’t be troubled long This old guitar has busted a few strings And I don’t have much money for these things So I’ll empty out my pockets ‘Til that change is all gone I’m troubled now, but I won’t be troubled long A worried man’s got a worried state of mind But he can’t let it take up all his time So he’ll pick up that old guitar And write it in a song. I’m troubled now, But I won’t be troubled long CHORUS
7.
TENNESSEE STUD – Jimmy Driftwood Long about 1825 I left Tennessee very much alive Never would have made it through the Arkansas mud If I hadn’t been riding on the Tennessee Stud I had some trouble with my sweetheart’s Pa One of her brothers was a bad outlaw I wrote a letter to my Uncle Spud And I rode away on a Tennessee Stud Well the Tennessee Stud was long and lean Color of the sun and his eyes were green He had the nerve, and he had the blood There never was a horse like a Tennessee Stud I drifted down into no man’s land Across the river called the Rio Grande I raced my horse with the Spaniard’s foe And I got me a purse full of silver and gold Me and the gambler, we couldn’t agree And we got in a fight over Tennessee I pulled my gun, and he fell with a thud And I rode away on a Tennessee Stud CHORUS I rode right back into Arkansas, And I whipped her brother and I whipped her Pa I found that girl with the golden hair And she was riding on a Tennessee mare There’s a pretty little baby on the cabin floor And a little horse colt playing round the door I love that girl with the golden hair And the Tennessee Stud loves the Tennessee Mare CHORUS
8.
BOOMER’S STORY – Carson Robison Come and gather all around me Listen to my tale of woe Got some good advice to give you Lots of things you oughta know Take a tip from one who’s travelled And never stopped rambling round Once you get that roaming fever You never want to settle down Met a little gal in Frisco I asked her to be my wife Told her I was tired of roaming Gonna settle down for life Then I heard the whistle blowing And I knew it was a red ball train I left that gal beside the railroad And never saw that gal again Saw that gal again I never saw that gal again I left that gal beside the railroad and I never saw that gal again Travelled all over the country I travelled everywhere Been on every branch line railroad Never paid a nickel fare Been from Maine to Californee Canada to Mexico I never tried to save no money And now I got no place to go Listen to a Boomer’s story Pay attention to what I say I hear another train coming Guess I’ll be on my way If you wanna do me a favor When I lay me down and die Just dig my grave beside the railroad So I can hear the trains go by Hear the trains go I can hear the trains go by Just dig my grave beside the railroad So I can hear the trains go by

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released June 15, 2015

Dustin Meadows - Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica
Ian Meadows - Vocals, Guitar

Sam Margolis - Producer/Engineer
Chuck Honnet - Executive Producer

Mixed by Andrew Kramer, Mastered by Sam Margolis and Andrew Kramer

Recorded at Riverview Studios, Waltham, MA during the Winter of 2015.

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