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Jack Rabbit Jones

by Haunt the House

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1.
tell my love that i will miss her most you can't embrace an old departed ghost you can find my boots on the mosquito coast where the old white mare is at the hitching post tell my boys not to drink no gin you can't leave the tavern if you never go in and jesus christ will tell you it's a sin if in excess, alcohol there is within tell my body not to leave my soul i'll grow up but i'll never grow old i'm so tired of doing what i'm told breaking my back for another mans gold
2.
Little Bird 02:49
distant lives and distant lovers she was once his little bird he went over waterfalls in barrels he was that absurd he was to prove his love he was he was he and she they wrote those letters back and forth for years and years he was always tied in fetters she was wandering from here to there from here to there from here to there distant lives and distant lovers you were once my little bird i went over waterfalls in barrels i was that absurd i was to prove my love i was i was you and i we wrote those letters back and forth for years and years i was always tied in fetters you were wandering from here to there from here to there from here to there
3.
Black Butte 05:43
he's coming home wild flowers in hand after a long day of work drawing oil from sand down in the valley under sun he did toil drilling a hole for the blackest of oil oh what do i hear oh what do i see in the arms of my woman but it isn't me o come my prairie please come home come back to where you once were from come back home i'm breaking my back many troubles I've seen but i'll rest my body in pity creek ravine o come my prairie please come home come back to where you once were from come back home up on the ledge with a quivering hand he surveys the place where his body will land o come my prairie please come home come back to where you once were from o come my prairie please come home come back to where you once were from
4.
Jealous Vow 03:05
prairie i have waited for you every night and day but your time was better spent in the arms of another man you were cutting off my fingertips to better ease the pain of the creeping death of poison in my meals we couldn't spare it was cyanide and cigarettes it was gasoline and gin and every time i locked you out you burned a hole right in again darling don't you worry all your doves with razored claws i have trapped them with my bloodied hands and laid them in the wall where as well my lover you may rest alongside rabbit jones and they'll never find your bodies til your dust and dirty bones dirty bones with the smell up to the ceiling by then i will be long gone i will cut my face into a curve a crimson ruddied bow and i will have my vengeance on your soul no man will ever know
5.
oh my life flashed hollywooden reels as a light was burnin at my heels and the wind was dancin round it feels just like a wheel as i fell down through the great ravine i was tortured by the rushing winds as an angel dropped her lovely hands of gold and silver now instead of dashing on a stone and in place of desperately alone and instead of grinding crushing bone i was redeemed now instead of dashing on a stone and in place of desperately alone and instead of grinding crushing bone i was redeemed
6.
well you wouldn't let me love you you were always unsatisfied oh but darlin please believe me how i tried the smoke that billows from your window it was just a telling sign that the heart within is choked and nearly died but i want to ease your troubled mind i want to ease your troubled mind come back to me and you will find that i will ease your troubled mind it seems like you are wandering it seems like you're out of touch and it feels like you don't love me very much when the storms of life are raging and the trials have commenced and it feels like you have run straight out of luck i want to ease your troubled mind i want to ease your troubled mind come back to me and you will find that i will ease your troubled mind
7.
Emerson 03:00
i was buried in emerson on the kitchen floor and my knees had just given way as i took from his brain and the freedom of men he was putting me back in my place and you called to the kids with a fire in your heart that the dinner was ready and hot so i looked up to god with a wink and a nod singing destitute we are not singing destitute we are not and i feel it in my bones we're gonna get us out of here yes i feel it in my bones we're gonna get us out of here there are wolves in the thickets there are thieves in our beds and our prayers float up to the stars we've got love for the master and love for the dead cuz love can heal our scars yes love can heal our scars yes love can heal our scars and i feel it in my bones we're gonna get us out of here o i feel it in my bones we're gonna get us out of here theres a hawk in the jail house perched on the desk of the warden with keys in her claws she can see every move she can smell every breath every word that escapes from your jaws and she'll set you up right by her golden eye's light if you make the attempt to break free and she'll taunt all you boys for the plans you employ sayin don't make a fool out of me no you won't make a fool out of me and i feel it in my bones we're gonna get us out of here yes i feel it in my bones we're gonna get us out of here
8.
Burial Waltz 03:16
meet me by the river where the cattle go to die we will baptize all the elders with a golden fishing wire and we'll open black umbrellas when the holy spirit flies and the rock and rollin thunder's gonna split the humid skies the rock and rollin thunder's gonna split the humid skies mary stares at joseph as he takes her by the arm and says there will come a day when no hurt will touch your heart as they dance around his grave with the celebrating crowd he ascends as marys tears burn like oil to the ground ascends as marys tears burn like oil to the ground never have we ever seen a man to be so bold as we witness josephs deeds and his heart of polished gold and as evening turned to night and his body grew more cold his spirit and his soul swiftly welcomed to the fold his spirit and his soul swiftly welcomed to the fold
9.
i wait up in my rocking chair i wait for you to get here the baby he sleeps as i breathe his hair but you've disappeared into thin air oh dear is it over you are a bitch I'm a soldier oh dear is it almost done i take up my rest in the mountains people they ask they say what is wrong i can't react i just sing these songs i was just fine til you came along my gun it sits in the kitchen oh dear is it over you are a witch i'm your lover oh dear is it almost done i take up my rest in the mountains
10.
Mandolin 02:18
i wish i was a green river i wish i was a green river i'd cradle you forever if a river i could be i wish i was a cigarette i wish i was a cigarette and if i was a cigarette id burn my heart away i wish i were the bluest sea i wish i were the bluest sea i'd only take good care of the if the ocean i could be i wish i was the universe i wish i was the universe and if i was the universe i'd swirl around your bed i wish i was a mandolin i wish i was a mandolin i'd teach the angels to sing if i was a mandolin i wish i was that apple tree that gave me shade and once fed me and if i was that apple tree i'd do the same for thee
11.
well i'm packing up my suitcases in the house that i built up with cards and I'm taking deep breaths as the tears they wet my eyes well the twisters in my head again and I'm doubting all my lifelong friends and I'm headed for that strange and empty land that is harvested by wild and wicked hands by wicked hands well you threw out all our babys clothes if you're gonna go you're gonna go and the boy that is not here is now a man for my seed it had not fallen in the sand not in the sand i gave my town over to my god why i gave a damn i don't know why but I'm falling towards a sun that burns my eyes and ill dream about you dear until i die and you wept as you went on your way well you know the first step's the hardest part and you know the ground is black and it is dark the odds are all against us as we walk you know i'm bound to take you right back home and god is trying to teach us how to sing and how to talk so lies have been told out of love and the chimney is choked up with smoke and i promise girl not to cut you anymore cuz i'm a knife, a knife of love please look at me i am not who i seem to be why don't you understand it's for the better dear that all these things in life are just like lead my dear they hold you down they hold you down they hold you down so lies have been told out of love and the chimney is choked up with smoke and i promise girl not to cut you anymore cuz i'm a knife, a knife of love i'm a knife a knife of love
12.
Carousel 02:57
oh prairie won't you come and make me whole oh prairie won't you come and make me whole cuz i got a little love in me but it's leaving through the holes of the walls within my heart and i watch it as it goes and i'm losing all my fortitude and i have misplaced my soul oh prairie won't' you come and make me whole oh jackie i'm the one that keeps you down oh jackie i'm the one that keeps you down i'm a darkness in a world of light and i spin you round and round til your eyes are like a carousel and you can't tell up or down til your dyin in the desert as you wear my heavy crown oh jackie i'm the one that keeps you down oh angels won't you come and carry me oh angels won't you come and carry me to a world that's beyond suffering where every one is free and the bonds that i have chosen will be stripped away from me and all the vice and painful things i will no longer see oh angels won't you come and set me free oh angels won t you come and set me free
13.
Arrow 03:54
well if heaven could envelope all the saints out on the road and the evil hearts are vanquished and the lambs don't become goats and if every time you'd turn to me you'd be returning home i would hold you close and then i'd whisper low and i'd say baby you're the kindest of them all but you shouldn't keep your heart behind a wall and if i had the power i'd strip the scars right from your soul and i'd show you that i love you so you'd know there's a carriage in the parking lot sailing with the wind and she knows her van will get it if she doesn't catch the thing but the vision of disaster so strangely turns to fun as she falls in love with a thing that she can't have and she says baby you're the sweetest of the boys but you keep yourself distracted with that noise and if i had the power i'd give you back your voice and i'd pull you up from drowning in the void yes and baby girl i need you you're different from the rest how i miss your hand resting on my chest but if i could do it differently i wouldn't change a thing it's your heart along with mine that makes me sing and it sings baby you're the love i'm looking for but I'm sorry that i had to use the door and here's hoping things will change so i can lie with you once more and you know your arrow struck me at the core well you know i'm sentimental you know that this is right and i can't forget the things we said that night and if you're ever looking back girl with a longing teary eye it's a good bet babe that if you are so am i

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released May 30, 2014

Will Houlihan-guitar, harmonica, vocals
Bessie Bessin-accordion,vocals
Allysen Callery-Vocals
Ryan Smith-Vocals
Meg Bayley-Vocals
David Henry Passafiume-percussion
Amato Zinno-upright bass
Stephen Lloyd Law-mandolin

Recorded and engineered by Ben Knox Miller and Jeffrey Prystowsky
at the Columbus Theatre
Mastered at Machines with Magnets by Seth Manchester and Keith Souza
all songs by Haunt the House ©2013

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"...This is the kind of music that the genre tag of Americana was custom-made for."--Robert Ham, Paste Magazine

"Spooky, powerful, and affecting." --Brian Carroll, Redline Roots
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