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Guitar String Tattoo

from Bars (12 tracks) w/ videos by DSG and The Limit

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Prison tattoos are often made by using a guitar string as a needle.

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Guitar String Tattoo
Words and Music by David Shepherd Grossman
Performed Live

Its raining now on Powell sitting in doughnut shop
I only have a dollar and some change
And I'm working on an angle
That will put me in some dough
The next time that you see me I'll be changed

Babe it may have been forever If only half a year
The tears you shed were real enough I know
The day that I went down
I couldn't think too clear
And never new my love enough to show

Two months down I knew between my bunk, the bars, the floor
All I really had in life was you
I only told old Wally
A lifer off the row
And he made for me this guitar string tattoo

It took him several days we stayed in from the yard
And made it look like we were playing spades
In between the shuffling
And cutting of the cards
Your name upon my arm
Was permanently engraved

Now I'm out of money 'cept for change enough to call
Wondering in my coffee what to do
It's raining doubt and diamonds
With this pay-phone in my hand
And on my arm a guitar string tattoo

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from Bars (12 tracks) w/ videos, released July 22, 2014
Sax: Terry Anderson, Guitar and Vocal: David Shepherd Grossman

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