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Poor Girl (Peach)

from Songs From Life Part 2 by Dave Shiflett

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From Songs for Aging Cynics. Dedicated to The Peach.

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She don’t wear no diamond
Doesn’t drive a German car
Doesn’t go to Aspen and hang out with those movie stars
Doesn’t have big moolah, doesn’t have no Krugerrands
Doesn’t have some honey singing in some big time band

All she got was me, poor girl -- all she got is me

She don’t hear no voices, doesn’t read no Ivanhoe
Doesn’t check the tea leaves looking for the Golden Door
Doesn’t have no status, doesn’t have the Gucci bag
She puts things in boxes, gives them to the poor and sad

All she got was me, poor girl, all she got was me
All the possibilities, and all she got was me

Solitary voices, in an empty ancient afternoon
Listen to the birds sing the songs they always knew
But we had much to learn
I ask her what is new, she speaks the ancient words

Doesn’t read no horoscope, doesn’t check the tarot cards
Doesn’t have a swami telling us just where we are
She can do the cha-cha, doesn’t bake no humble pie
She reads books with verses, she says we will never die

All she got was me, poor girl, all she got was me
All the possibilities and all she got was me
All of this infinity and all she got was me

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from Songs From Life Part 2, released June 17, 2023
Tripp Johnson, mandolin. Matt Boon, bass. Jeanine Guidry, harmony vocals. Recorded by Bill McElroy at Slipped Disc studio in Ashland, Virginia.

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Dave Shiflett is a lifelong journalist and writer, musician and, more recently, a composer. He has created a dozen CD-length recordings of songs for female and male vocalists, and another six for solo guitar, orchestra, and chamber ensembles. Most of that music will be archived at this site over the next several months. ... more

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