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West

from West by McKain Lakey

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Loosely based on the lives of my great-grandparents.

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I don't know my daddy, but I think he was a ghost who came out of the woods, in North Carolina.
He gave us all our curly hair and skin that don't fit in nowhere, but I got a man who tells me it won't matter where we're going.

I'm going west to hide my face, and I don't ever want to see this place again.

George, he is a good man and he's always by my side, but he couldn't get no crops to grow in Kansas.
So we'll head up north and buy some cows- we'll make it on our own somehow. It's dark and cold but the hunger ain't so dusty.

I'm going west to hide my face, and I don't ever want to see this place again.

George, he ain't no angel, but at least he's not a ghost.
He gave the kids a home and a future.
And he gets drunk, and he gets mad, but he's the only man I ever had.
The mornings smell like stale beer and bruises but the loving ain't so bad.

I'm going west to hide my face, and I don't ever want to see this place again.

I made it here to 94. Lost my mind and a little more. I smell like age, and soap, and bitter living.
But it's one more trip out west for me, west into the open sea, to rid myself of ghosts and fear and hatred.

I'm going west to hide my face, and I don't ever want to see this place again.
I'm going west to hide my face, and I don't ever want to see this place again.
I'm going west to hide my face, and I don't ever want to see this place again.

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from West, released May 18, 2018
McKain Lakey- Voice and Guitar
Laurel Bliss- Voice and Dobro
Sam Vogt- Mandolin

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