Artworks Thirteen

This is one of my favorite images
Cheapest Kind Gregg Brown
We travelled Kansas and Missouri spreading the good news
A preachers family in our pressed clothes and worn out polished shoes
Momma fixed us soup beans and served them up by candlelight
She tucked us in at night
Oh she worried through many a sleepless night
Dad and me would stop by the store when the day was done
Standin at the counter he said "I forgot to get the peaches, son."
"What kind should I get?" I said to him there where he stood in line
And he answered just like I knew he would "Go and get the cheapest kind"

[chorus:]
But the love, the love, the love
It was not the cheapest kind
It was rich as, rich as, rich as ,rich as, rich as
Any you could ever find

I see the ghost of my grandfather from time to time
In some big city amongst the people all dressed so fine
He usually has a paper bag clutched real tight
His work clothes are dirty
He don't look at nobody in the eye
Oh he was little, he was wirey, and he was lots of fun
He was rocky as Ozark dirt that he come from
And they was raisin seven children on a little farm
In not the best of times
The few things that they got from the store
Was always just the cheapest kind

[repeat chorus]

Fancy houses with wealthy poeple I don't understand
I always wish I could live holdin on to my grandpa's hand
So he could lead me down that gravel road somewhere
To that little house where there's just enough supper
For whosever there
My people's hands and faces they are so dear to me
All I have to do is close my eyes and I see `em all so near to me
I have to cry I have to laugh
When I think of all the things that have drawn those lines
So many years of makin do with the cheapest kind

[repeat chorus twice]

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This is one of my favorite images This is my good friend Hal. I took this picture on his birthday. I think he likes to be in pictures.			Here you'll create or edit a custom page for your Web site. "Small Dark Movie" Gregg Brown how are things going in the small dark movie of your life late at night you call your girlfriend in the morning you call your wife in the morning you go for coffee leave town by the underpass leave whatever happened last night cigarette in a champagne glass the road used to go someplace you never been before now it's just a race track and the only prize is more the only off-ramp is up ahead and just where ain't too clear and change is a semi with smoking wheels filling the rear view mirror you could really use a rain coat and a pair of cool shoes you could really use some idea of what you're gonna do but the road keeps coming at you and you find no place to rest and in these small dark movies no-one knows what's best so how are things going in the small dark movie of your life late at night you call your girlfriend in the morning you call your wife in the morning you go for coffee leave town by the underpass leave whatever happened last night cigarette in the champagne glass how are things going how are things going how are things going
Here you'll create or edit a custom page for your Web site. "A Little Place in the Country" Gregg Brown I'm sorry I hit you. I'm sorry I wrecked your car I'm sorry I met you that night at the Why Not Bar but now I've got you and you've got me for life I will hand you this bottle honey, if you'll set down that knife I'll never leave you. I'll never go away and even if I do--I reckon I won't stay No, I'll never leave you. I'll never set you free and even if I do--you better come back to me I've had lots of women--some even fatter than you but not a one of them could do all the things that you do I want to marry you. I want to see you in that gown I want to carry you to a room and take it all the way down I'll buy you a trailer from my uncle--any color you choose double-wide, furnished--one that's never been used a little place in the country--just a ways out of town and when I get home to you I don't want nobody around I'll never leave you. I'll never go away and even if I do--I reckon I won't stay No, I'll never leave you. I'll never set you free and even if I do--you better come back to me Add your link here Here you'll create or edit a custom page for your Web site. Canned Goods Gregg Brown Well let the wild winter wind bellow and blow I'm as warm as a July tomato [chorus:] There's peaches on the shelf, potatoes in the bin Supper ready, everybody come on in Taste a little of the summer Taste a little of the summer Taste a little of the summer Grandma put it all in jars Well there's a root cellar, fruit cellar down below Watch your head now, and down we go [repeat chorus] Well maybe you are weary and you don't give a damn I bet you never tasted her blackberry jam [repeat chorus] Oh she got magic in her, you know what I mean She puts the sun and rain in with her beans [repeat chorus] What with the snow and the economy and everything I think I'll just stay down here and eat until spring [repeat chorus] When I go down to see Grandma, I gain a lot a weight With her dear hands she gives me plate after plate She cans the pickles, sweet and dill And the songs of the whip-or-will and the morning dew and the evening moon I really gotta go down and see her soon Cause the canned goods that I buy at the store Ain't got the summer in em anymore You bet Grandma as sure as you're born I'll take some more potatoes and a thunder storm Gregg Brown, singer-songwriter			This is one of my favorite images Cheapest Kind Gregg Brown We travelled Kansas and Missouri spreading the good news A preachers family in our pressed clothes and worn out polished shoes Momma fixed us soup beans and served them up by candlelight She tucked us in at night Oh she worried through many a sleepless night Dad and me would stop by the store when the day was done Standin at the counter he said "I forgot to get the peaches, son." "What kind should I get?" I said to him there where he stood in line And he answered just like I knew he would "Go and get the cheapest kind" [chorus:] But the love, the love, the love It was not the cheapest kind It was rich as, rich as, rich as ,rich as, rich as Any you could ever find I see the ghost of my grandfather from time to time In some big city amongst the people all dressed so fine He usually has a paper bag clutched real tight His work clothes are dirty He don't look at nobody in the eye Oh he was little, he was wirey, and he was lots of fun He was rocky as Ozark dirt that he come from And they was raisin seven children on a little farm In not the best of times The few things that they got from the store Was always just the cheapest kind [repeat chorus] Fancy houses with wealthy poeple I don't understand I always wish I could live holdin on to my grandpa's hand So he could lead me down that gravel road somewhere To that little house where there's just enough supper For whosever there My people's hands and faces they are so dear to me All I have to do is close my eyes and I see `em all so near to me I have to cry I have to laugh When I think of all the things that have drawn those lines So many years of makin do with the cheapest kind [repeat chorus twice]
			This is one of my favorite images This is my good friend Hal. I took this picture on his birthday. I think he likes to be in pictures.

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