An internet-only release. Performance, recording, editing by Johnny Z at his home studio. It's a true low tech rock-a-billy tune, eschewing a high end condenser mic for a built in iMac mic.
words by Kevin Beamish and Johnny Stephen Zawacki
music by Johnny Stephen Zawacki
© 2005 Piano Street Music, BMI
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DADDY WAS A ROUNDER
Mama told me Daddy was a rounder
But he never hung ‘round for very long
I’m told he was a drifter and a dreamer
But I thought he’d always come back home
Too many lost, forgotten birthdays
Too many Christmases alone
Too many nights I heard my Mama cryin’
I used to wish him here, though now I, I’m glad he’s gone
Daddy was a boxer in the army
‘Fore he left his trail out on the road
Guess he did some time down in Parchman
Wrong time, wrong place I’m told
Told Mama he would write us
Silver tongued devil that he was
Words weren’t enough to sustain us
From a man saying something else from what he does
Chorus: Daddy was a rounder, he always ran around
Always chasing something - chasing women wine and song
Daddy was a rounder, but here we call him gone
Cuz Daddy never hung around here with us for very long
Daddy got a brand new family
Finally settled down and got a niche
Mama struggled raising his old family
While Daddy fooled around and struck it rich
Heard he took ill last September
Now he’s planted firmly in the ground
How many tears would save him?
Guess we’ll never know - get down
Chorus: Daddy was a rounder, he always ran around
Always chasing something - chasing women wine and song
Daddy was a rounder, but here we called him gone
Cuz Daddy never hung around here with us for very long
words by Kevin Beamish and Johnny Stephen Zawacki
music by Johnny Stephen Zawacki
© 2005 Piano Street Music, BMI
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