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Huckleberry Finn

from Heaven Depends by Lorkin O'Reilly

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Huckleberry Finn

We'll grab your buckskins and Grandpas gun
Meet me out by the back of the barn shooting birds
As the sun goes sinking in
You be Tom and I'll be Huckleberry Finn

Now across the hill lives whisky Earl
Got his dogs and his pin-up girls on his arm
I've heard he's drunk and mean
But he has some work cleaning up his farm machines

So roll on July
Summers she's coming down the yard
Bare foot bound
She's spinning with the sycamore in hand
Cause mighty runs the trail
That leads to Ballantrae

Now I was twelve when my heart first fell
A gypsy girl her name was Tinkerbell but her Ma'
She saw my broken teeth
Said girl don't you bring that boy home to me

But see my father he was a handsome man
Wore his collar a little open in town if you will
I loved his northern tongue
But I'm told I've always been my mothers Irish son

So roll on July
Summers she's coming down the yard
Bare foot bound
She's spinning with the sycamore in hand
Cause mighty runs the trail
That leads to Ballantrae

And might is the stone caught in the sail

So buckle your belt and gather the plans
I'll meet you out by the back of the barn
I've whisky I stole from under the sink
And cigarettes we can smoke after the bridge

So roll on July
Summers she's coming down the yard
Bare foot bound
She's spinning with the sycamore in hand
Cause mighty runs the trail
That leads to Ballantrae

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from Heaven Depends, released August 24, 2018

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Lorkin O'Reilly Dublin, Ireland

Lorkin O'Reilly is a singer-songwriter who writes reflective narratives that fall naturally into the musical spaces he creates; warm, confessional sounds, with nods to traditional folk music. He came to the United States from Scotland when he was eighteen, and settled in New York's Hudson Valley. He currently resides in Catskill. ... more

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