The Jayhawks - This Forgotten Town

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🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

The Jayhawks - “This Forgotten Town” from the 2020 album XOXO on Sham/Thirty Tigers.

On their 11th LP, the members of long-running Americana band The Jayhawks all share songwriting duties for the first time ever. On today's Song of the Day, in particular, lead singer Gary Louris and drummer Tim O’Reagan share vocals on a track co-written by Louris and bassist Marc Perlman.

“Introducing different voices throughout the song added a new dimension to telling the story,” Perlman told Rolling Stone Magazine. “We approached it much like we did the whole record — more collaboration in the writing and more sharing of lead vocals than in the past.”

“Marc brought the chord progression for this song, and then I started singing a melody on top of it,” Louris added. “We wrote the lyrics together.”

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0:00.0	Oh, out of this forgotten town, had to watch my old horse crown,
0:19.0	buried by the river, sharpened colored by the bun.
0:25.0	When we were young, we were judged by the choices that were made.
0:30.0	And all the time we wasted in the love
0:35.0	and love that I betrayed well.
0:40.0	Built the dime and everything changed, little houses out along the range.
0:45.0	Fear came rolling in and covered up the sun.
0:51.0	In the land of milken honey,
0:55.0	that's where I lay my claim.
0:58.0	But every day that I lost money,
1:01.0	it brought meoser to the Great
1:05.0	Where the river don't fall?
1:09.0	Where the
1:10.0	Where the grass don't fall?
1:11.0	Where the grass don't grow?
1:15.0	Creature had a cross to bear.
1:20.0	He smiled salvation in the air, tempted by the silver and gold, put him six feet in the ground.
1:28.0	Came across her by the road, dressed in her Sunday base.
1:34.0	She took my hand and let me home to the place, the place I can't forget.
1:41.0	The river don't flow.
1:45.0	When the grass it won't go. When the grass it won't go. No. Oh, I'm not. Living in a makeshift town, couldn't find money for the wind. Do you believe in kingdom would come
2:25.0	in the promise of the word?
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