Bruised Orange - John Prine 1980 (stereo)

remember I told you about that Gibson hummingbird ahead second guitar around your are really good one yeah cost me like Jesus cost 250 bucks it took money off him because it was a thing it sit in the window of the store son and kind of runa finish on right so I don't have 250 bucks and I got this job at this church over here and they pay me 50 bucks a month I think I have to go in on Saturdays and dust the pews yeah especially in the summertime a lot of people for some reason didn't go to church in the summer they had other things to do so the pews you get real dusty yeah somebody's got a duster and in the wintertime I have to go there and shovel the snow ax uh-huh and uh I was going over there one time I wrote that song Bruton orange got something happened me I was going over there I guess it had snowed real late on a Saturday night and they called me up real early Sunday morning like 5:00 in the morning to get over here and he wanted me to shovel of snow up because for the early service of the people in the congregation kill over one of them slipping busted their tail then they'd sue the church for all the money they've been given and all these years it was a vicious circle the minute we're good and uh I was on the way over and I got close to here and I heard a bunch of sirens over over on Northwestern tracks over there and all the people is out that time of Mortimer's newsboys and you know guys just doing a job like me or or else altar boys a lot of churches around here and some kid had been walking along I guess was his head just in a cloud and a daydreaming and the train hit him really messed him up bad it couldn't recognize him for a while but that's like you know that song goes with my heart's in the Icehouse come here come valley long ago Sunday when I walked through this alley over here huh cold winters morning to that church ask just a shovel like snow off at sidewalk I heard sirens on that train track over there yeah I'll naked get neutered and altar boys sing it by a local commuter just from walking with his back turned to the train was coming so slow the hurts in the Icehouse come a helo come they're like a long ago Sunday well I'm Billy Aliona cool it is morning to it your jabs just to shovel some snow urge sirens on the train track he'll make it get new you know the bars and it mountable commuter just from walking with his back turned to the train there was coming so slow they even gaze out the window little Maddy it matter but it don't you know good did you name say okay hello overcome Bo did you act yourself sit there wrapped up in a trap are you very own king of Sodom I've been brought down to zero pulled out and put back there i sat on a park bench I kiss the girl with the black hair and my hitch shouted down in my height you better look out below et surtout long time don't stammer don't stutter from the damn ins and the sidewalk do the turn and look at it and you carry those bruises demand you for your hand but it don't do no good I play good we you become your prisoner if you act yourself it wrapped up in a chair your very own chain of sorrow Oh but in the Icehouse call me helo come been like a long ago Sunday when I walk City Eliana cool when there's morning to it your chest just a shovel some snow I heard sirens on the train tracks he'll make it new and all the bars been hit by local commuters from walking with his back turned to the train that was coming man and say what we can go spit young when you ask yourself sit there wrapped up in the trash do

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Keywords: john, prine, live, bruised, orange, chain, of, sorrow, soundstage, 1980, stereo, folk

Id: lFD2wZaBciY

Length: 7min 36sec (456 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 21 2008

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[u/re_zacks]

my favorite cover of anything EVER ❤️