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Greg Brown - Bad Roads in Spring
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Greg Brown - Bathtub Blues
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Greg Brown - My Home in the Sky
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Greg Brown - Ah! Sun-Flower
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Greg Brown - Ain't No One Like You
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Greg Brown - Ashamed of Our Love
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Greg Brown - Brand New '64 Dodge
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Greg Brown - Don't You Think Too Much
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Greg Brown - Fooled Me Once
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Greg Brown - Grand Junction
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Greg Brown - Green Leaf
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Greg Brown - Help Me Make It through This Funky Day
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Greg Brown - I Never Will Marry
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Greg Brown - In the Water
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Greg Brown - Late Night Radio
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Greg Brown - Lull It By
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Greg Brown - Pound It on Down
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Greg Brown - Ring around the Moon
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Greg Brown - River Will Take You
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Greg Brown - Ships
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Greg Brown - Steady Love
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Greg Brown - Telling Stories
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Greg Brown - You Can Watch Me
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Greg Brown - 'Cept You & Me, Babe
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Greg Brown - 857-5413
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Greg Brown - A Grown Woman (A Woman Like Me)
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Greg Brown - A Little Excited
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Greg Brown - A Little Place in the Country
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Greg Brown - Ain't Life A Brook
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Greg Brown - Ballingall Hotel
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Greg Brown - Band of Gold
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Greg Brown - Banjo Moon
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Greg Brown - Betty Ann
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Greg Brown - Billy from the Hills
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Greg Brown - Blue Car
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Greg Brown - Boomtown
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Greg Brown - Bozo's in Love Again
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Greg Brown - Bucket
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Greg Brown - Butane Lighter Blues
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Greg Brown - Canned Goods
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Greg Brown - Cheapest Kind
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Greg Brown - Coneville Slough
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Greg Brown - Cronies
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Greg Brown - Dancing 'Round and 'Round
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Greg Brown - Dear Wrinkled Face
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Greg Brown - Down at the Mill
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Greg Brown - Down In The Valley
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Greg Brown - Downtown
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Greg Brown - Dream City
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Greg Brown - Driftin'" (Greg Brown and Dick Pinney)
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Greg Brown - Driftless
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Greg Brown - Dusty Woods
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Greg Brown - Early
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Greg Brown - Ella Mae
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Greg Brown - Eugene
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Greg Brown - Fairfield
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Greg Brown - Flabbergabble
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Greg Brown - Four Wet Pigs
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Greg Brown - Further In
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Greg Brown - Hacklebarney
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Greg Brown - Hacklebarney Tune
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Greg Brown - Hillbilly Girl
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Greg Brown - Hurt So Nice
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Greg Brown - I Don't Know That Guy
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Greg Brown - I Don't Want Your Millions, Mister
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Greg Brown - I Must Be in Oregon
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Greg Brown - I Remember When
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Greg Brown - I Slept All Night by My Lover
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Greg Brown - If I Had Known
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Greg Brown - Jesus & Elvis
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Greg Brown - Joy Tears
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Greg Brown - Just a Bum
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Greg Brown - Just Live
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Greg Brown - King Corn
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Greg Brown - Laughing River
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Greg Brown - Letters from Europe
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Greg Brown - Like a Dog
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Greg Brown - Living in a Prayer
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Greg Brown - Lord, I Have Made You a Place in My Heart
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Greg Brown - Lotsa Kindsa Money
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Greg Brown - Love Is a Chain
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Greg Brown - Lullaby
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Greg Brown - Lullaby at the Edge of Town
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Greg Brown - Marriage Chant
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Greg Brown - Mighty Sweet Watermelon
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Greg Brown - Milk of the Moon
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Greg Brown - Mississippi Moon
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Greg Brown - Mississippi Serenade
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Greg Brown - Monsters and Giants
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Greg Brown - Mose Allison Played Here
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Greg Brown - Mud
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Greg Brown - My New Book
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Greg Brown - Never Shine Sun
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Greg Brown - Never So Far
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Greg Brown - Oh You
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Greg Brown - On New Year's Day
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Greg Brown - One Big Town
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Greg Brown - Our Little Town
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Greg Brown - Out in the Country
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Greg Brown - Payday
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Greg Brown - People with Bad Luck
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Greg Brown - Poor Backslider
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Greg Brown - Pretty One More Time
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Greg Brown - Railroad Bill
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Greg Brown - Real Good Friend
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Greg Brown - Rexroth's Daughter
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Greg Brown - Rooty Toot Toot for the Moon
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Greg Brown - Sadness
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Greg Brown - Samson
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Greg Brown - Say a Little Prayer
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Greg Brown - Shake Sugaree
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Greg Brown - Shit Out of Luck
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Greg Brown - Small Dark Movie
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Greg Brown - So Long, You Old Tooth
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Greg Brown - Speaking in Tongues
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Greg Brown - Spring and All
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Greg Brown - Summer Evening
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Greg Brown - Tell Me It's Gonna Be Alright
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Greg Brown - The Foggy Foggy Dew
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Greg Brown - The Iowa Waltz
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Greg Brown - The Last Shepherd
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Greg Brown - The Poet Game
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Greg Brown - The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home
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Greg Brown - Things Go On
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Greg Brown - Think about You
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Greg Brown - This Blue
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Greg Brown - Treat Each Other Right
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Greg Brown - Two Little Boys
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Greg Brown - Two Little Feet
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Greg Brown - Waiting on You
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Greg Brown - Walkin' Daddy
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Greg Brown - Walkin' Down to Casey's
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Greg Brown - Wash My Eyes
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Greg Brown - Whippoorwill
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Greg Brown - Who Do You Think You're Fooling?"
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Greg Brown - Who Woulda Thunk It?
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Greg Brown - Why Do You Even Say That?
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Greg Brown - Wild Like A Sonny Boy
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Greg Brown - Winter Rain
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Greg Brown - Worrisome Years
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Greg Brown - You Are a Flower
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Greg Brown - You Don't Really Get Me, Babe
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Greg Brown - You Drive Me Crazy
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Greg Brown - You Might as Well Go to Sleep
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Greg Brown - Young Robin
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Greg Brown - Your Town Now
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Greg Brown - (I Sure Hope the) Tornado (Don't Come)
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Greg Brown - A Poison Tree
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Greg Brown - All Day Rain
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Greg Brown - All the Little Places around the Town
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Greg Brown - All the Money's Gone
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Greg Brown - Almost Out of Gas
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Greg Brown - America Will Eat You
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Greg Brown - Back Home Again
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Greg Brown - Beatniks Gonna Rise Again
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Greg Brown - Blues Go Walking
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Greg Brown - Build a Little Village
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Greg Brown - Cold & Dark & Wet
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Greg Brown - Comin' into You
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Greg Brown - Counting Feedcaps
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Greg Brown - Daughters
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Greg Brown - Dream Cafe
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Greg Brown - Dream On
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Greg Brown - Enough
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Greg Brown - Evening Call
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Greg Brown - Every Street in Town
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Greg Brown - Famous Friends
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Greg Brown - Flat Stuff
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Greg Brown - Good Morning Coffee
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Greg Brown - Green Grows The Laurel
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Greg Brown - Heart of My Country
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Greg Brown - Here in the Going Going Gone
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Greg Brown - How Black the Fields
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Greg Brown - I Believe I'll Go Back Home
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Greg Brown - I Can't Get Used to It
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Greg Brown - I Don't Want to Be the One
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Greg Brown - I Wish I Was a Painter
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Greg Brown - If You Don't Get It at Home
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Greg Brown - In the Dark with You
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Greg Brown - InaBell Sale
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Greg Brown - It Gets Lonely in a Small Town
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Greg Brown - Just by Myself
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Greg Brown - Kokomo
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Greg Brown - Lately
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Greg Brown - Let Me Be Your Gigolo
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Greg Brown - Loneliness House
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Greg Brown - Mattie Price
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Greg Brown - My Pa, He Came Home Quiet as the Evening
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Greg Brown - Nice When It Rains
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Greg Brown - No Place Away
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Greg Brown - Old Smokey
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Greg Brown - On Records the Sound Just Fades Away
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Greg Brown - One Cool Remove
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Greg Brown - One More Goodnight Kiss
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Greg Brown - One Wrong Turn
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Greg Brown - People Hide Their Love
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Greg Brown - Skinny Days
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Greg Brown - Sleeper
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Greg Brown - Smell of Coffee
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Greg Brown - So Hard
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Greg Brown - Solid Heart
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Greg Brown - Speed Trap Boogie
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Greg Brown - Spring Wind
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Greg Brown - The Monkey
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Greg Brown - The Moon Is Nearly Full
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Greg Brown - The Way They Get Themselves Up
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Greg Brown - Twenty or So
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Greg Brown - Vivid
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Greg Brown - Waiting
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Greg Brown - Walking the Beans
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Greg Brown - Whatever It Was
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Greg Brown - Where Do the Wild Geese Go?"
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Greg Brown - Who Killed Cock Robin?
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Greg Brown - Why Don't You Just Go Home?
The Poet Game
Greg Brown
walking with my girl,
and we came upon a place
there in the tall grass where a couple
had been making love
and left the mark of their embrace.
I said to her, "Looks like they had some fun."
She said to me, "Let's do the same."
and still I taste her kisses
and her freckles in the sun
when I play the poet game.
A young man down in hill country
in the year of '22
went to see his future bride.
She lived in a rough old shack
that poverty blew through.
She invited him inside.
She'd been cooking, ashamed and feeling sad,
she could only offer him bread and her name -
Grandpa said that it was the best gift
a fella ever had
and he taught me the poet game.
I had a friend who drank too much
and played too much guitar -
and we sure got along.
Reel-to-reels rolled across
the country near and far
with letters poems and songs..
but these days he don't talk to me
and he won't tell me why.
I miss him every time i say his name.
I don't know what he's doing
or why our friendship died
while we played the poet game.
The fall rain was pounding down
on an old New Hampshire mill
and the river wild and high.
I was talking to her while leaves blew down
like a sudden chill -
there was wildness in her eyes.
We made love like we'd been waiting
all of our lives for this -
Strangers know no shame -
But she had to leave at dawn
and with a sticky farewell kiss
left me to play the poet game.
I watched my country turn into
a coast-to-coast strip mall
and I cried out in a song:
if we could do all that in thirty years,
then please tell me you all -
why does good change take so long?
Why does the color of your skin
or who you choose to love
still lead to such anger and pain?
And why do I think it's any help
for me to still dream of
playing the poet game?
Sirens wail above the fields -
another soul gone down -
another Sun about to rise.
I've lost track of my mistakes,
like birds they fly around
and darken half of my skies.
To all of those I've hurt -
I pray you'll forgive me.
I to you will freely do the same.
so many things I didn't see,
with my eyes turned inside,
playing the poet game.
I walk out at night to take a leak
underneath the stars -
oh yeah that's the life for me.
There's Orion and the Pleiades
and I guess that must be Mars -
all as clear as we long to be.
I've sung what I was given -
some was bad and some was good.
I never did know from where it came
and if I had it all to do again
I am not sure I would
play the poet game.