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Legends of The Western Territories

by The Black Fox River Project

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1.
I want to know What's gonna happen to the human race If something or somebody's gonna come along and take our place Oh lord I want to know, yes I want to know I'm a thought inside of that rabbit's brain We stopped and stared at each other that morning after it rained Oh I want to know, yes I want to know If the rabbit's going to think about me when I go It's been 10 long weeks, since I kissed your lips I hope I don't survive through the Apocalypse Everybody's got a story about that day Where they were When they felt the Earth start to shake Oh I want to know, yes I want to know Just what they grabbed when they knew they had to get up and go A leaf can fall right off of a healthy tree That don't mean that you can just get up and walk away from me Oh I want to know Yes I want to know How you made it seem, so easy just to get up and go get up and go get up and go
2.
Susan 03:42
I breezed in like a tumblin' weed A carefree, reckless stranger in need I met a girl with two holes in her nose two eyes, two ears, ten fingers ten toes She looked alright, she felt just fine when I woke she had everything of mine right then I could hear it in my head I remember those words that my momma said If you don't change your ways boy and start settling down You'll end up like your father 6 feet in the ground When you ramble around son, you never do know Just who is your friend and who is your foe I blew out everything faded to black licking my wounds but I wasn't lookin back I met a man who kept on talking to me telling me about some heavenly scheme but I keep dream of wealthier days I though of momma as the buzzards were flying recited her words as I lay dying If you don't change your ways boy and start settling down You'll end up like your father 6 feet in the ground When you ramble around son, you never do know Just who is your friend and who is your foe I'm sorry my momma, but how I was I to know I'd never have friends I'd only have foes I'm down here with my father 6 ft. in the ground regretting my rambling my rambling round
3.
I guess I love just a little to long Most of my friends like my wife have passed on something had to change and you know it's true it's the only way I can explain it to you When god told Moses "though shall not steal" I don't think they understood how good it would make me feel If they wanted this old man to just be done why'd they make robbin' banks so much damn fun? But none of you people know How far I had to go To try and get it out of mu mind Man you should have seen my lovely bride we loved each other for 50 years and then she died you can spend your life trying to understand the inner workings of a lonely man but none of you people know how far I had to go to try and get her out of my mind I blew out 91 candles I was alone I didn't even get a call upon the telephone There was only one card, written by me it said "Hand over the money sincerely Red Rountree" "Hand over the money sincerely Red Rountree" "Hand over the money sincerely Red Rountree"
4.
Mom and daddy they could not bring us up We were raised by a pack of wild wolves they showed us how the land can be our home and now this land we shall forever roam And on top of the mountain is where I sit and howl at the moon a little brother born one year after me mom and daddy they left him beneath a tree one night me and the pack we stumbled home a little brother and we brought him up as our own And on top of the mountain is where we sit and howl at the moon Mom and daddy they could not bring us up We were raised by a pack of wild wolves they showed us how the land can be our home and now this land we shall forever roam And on top of the mountain is where we sit and howl at the moon We're feral children just a screaming at the moon We're feral children just a screaming at the moon
5.
Playing with hearts was never my strong hand Somebody's bound to lose in the end but playing with diamonds feels so over my kin I wouldn't know where to stop or where to begin Oh but you're showing something I've never seen before Oh lord help me oh lord help me King Kong had his tall buildings and Snow White had her dwarves I've got all my stories and lord knows you've got yours A man sailed around the world and there's a city that's lost at sea Some men out there spend their lives trying to find where it might be Oh but you're telling stories I've never heard before oh lord help me oh lord help me The ice cut through the land Behold! the Red River Gorge A man holds in his hand all the berries that he's foraged everyday people fly around the world and look down from the skies above a man walked on the moon but he dreamed of the woman he loved Oh and you're making something I've never seen before oh lord help me oh lord help me
6.
I was sitting out on my back stairs wondering what the world's like over there well it's not far it's just across my yard come here quick what do you think my little honey dear? I think you gotta go and then you'll know what's gonna be you'll see will be if I'm gonna go I'd let you know and what's gonna be we'll see will be Dear sir or madman just writing to inform you inform you of vacancies in the mental ward we'll straighten out your jacket we'll put the padding on the wall we'll be here if you decide you're gonna take the fall If I'm gonna go let you know what's gonna be we'll see will be if I'm gonna go at least you'll know and what's gonna be we'll see will be and what's gonna be we'll see will be
7.
I don't remember that night right before dawn words came slow and the booze was all gone tomorrow I'm going away from here I miss you I'll miss you my dear Well I wish I could stay right by your side long long hair and bloodshot eyes we'd drink all night to that old song the one about going back home take me home take me down the river to my home town take me down the river to my home town I been gone way too long take me down the river back home take me home And tonight I watch the river flow look downstream towards the city's glow Well I been gone away too long I'm dreaming it all back home I'm dreaming of the nights on that dead end celebrating anything singing songs till the night turns on the ones that we wrote in that home take me home take me down the river to my home town take me down the river to my home town I been gone way too long take me down the river back home take me home take me home
8.
The Beast 04:37
Another shot at greatness another flash in the pan things around here were going just fine until they weren't again He said "If words weren't meant for joking, then I don't know what they're for." Around that time she packed her things and she headed out the door A madman wrote the dictionary Isaac Newton stuck a pin in his eye The ancient Greeks couldn't see the color blue but the women sure gave them a try He said "I don't know why she got so mad, I was only doing what I do" Around that time she hopped a plane and she headed out to Honalu It's the last ship a-sailing crossing the river to the east It's a holy ghost a father and a beast and a beast O' Henry spent three years in jail and he never said where he'd been Somebody should have told old Mary Mallon that getting sick wasn't a sin He dressed up like Fred Astaire and he wondered just where she'd gone Around that time she danced along to a bar band's ragtime song Guglielmo Marconi never really knew what to do he just kept on guessing until the messages came through Well He dressed up like Superman and he saved a cat from a tree Around that time, she packed her things and she knew where she wanted to be It's the last ship a-sailing crossing the river to the east It's a holy ghost a father and a beast and a beast Another shot at greatness another flash in the pan sometimes you just get lucky sometimes there's a master plan She dressed up like Dorothy Gale and she walked back through the door the tin man grabbed his oil can and they made love on the floor It's the last ship a-sailing crossing the river to the east It's a holy ghost a father and a beast and a beast
9.
County Fair 05:35
Be honored by the spirits that haunt you There's something that they want you to know one day you're going to learn about the end of the world through the speakers of your radio Keep walking past the children that taunt you let them throw their stones into the air keep walking past the fences and power lines on your way to the county fair county fair county fair yeah you'll find me there It's hard to find somebody to love you it's hard to find somebody to care except the Snakeskin Girl and her long red curls every night at the county fair county fair county fair yeah you'll find me there you saunter past the book burning pastors let their flames reach on up to the sky their shutting down the lights on a Sunday night and a small child he closes his eyes they say your life is written in chapters and St. Peter if you're up in the air I'm closing the book give me one last look at the gates of the county fair
10.
Omnilude 00:40
11.
Island Song 04:37
Lord I was a balloon I left my owner's arm too soon now I'm so high up above him now I know I used to love him But someday I'll be an island and you'll know where to find me with all my running days behind me we'll sing oh my me oh my ee Lord I was a toy boat man you should have seen me float I drifted too far from the shore I won't get played with anymore But someday I'll be an island and you'll know where to find me with all my running days behind me we'll sing oh my me oh my ee I was a castle in the sky I was a white cloud passing by I know the day I caught your eye just like the day you said good bye But someday I'll be an island and you'll know where to find me with all my running days behind me we'll sing oh my me oh my ee
12.
On night like this not so woah oh oh it wasn't long ago On a night like this it wasn't long ago I was wondering who's that walking up my road with a paper bag bottle in her hand was the lady who I never did understand she sat down and we raised a little toast argued over who had seen the most she walked up to me barn across the way lit a match on threw it on in the hay On night like this not so woah oh oh it wasn't long ago Well the fire it burned up the darkened sky she turned to me and this is what she sighed I 'm so sorry that it had to burn and fall I guess now we've seen it all right then lord I fainted to the ground when I came to she could not be found she turned her body into ash and smoke on a night like this it wasn't long ago
13.
My love arrived from the place I hide I bet that you've heard that I had lost my mind but what do you know, I'm doing just fine I had to walk away from it all take time and slow it down to a crawl I'm sorry for the note that said that I can't stay for lack of words I never had much to say when the road it calls I must obey I might not come home till the fall when time slows down to a crawl Now I'm some kind of man out on my own I have no home I'm a rolling stone Don't worry in no hurry through streets I roam dodging the casts of their stone I take my time and slow it down to a crawl
14.
Walking through darkness walking through cold walking through something that feels so old Waiting for water waiting for the end of night waiting for something to finally feel right and I'm standing in the shadows of an endless night Waiting for answers I've already picked my side waiting for the moment when I finally feel alive born into prison learning how to draw a lion praying for the moment when I finally join the pride and I'm standing in the shadows of an endless night

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Recorded at Black Dog Recording Studios March-April 2014

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released October 9, 2014

Chris Blackwell- Acoustic and Electric Guitar, Lead and backing vocals

Dave Jenkins- Bass, backing vocals

Lefty- Lap Steel Guitar, Slide guitar, backing vocals

John Pjontek- Drums, percussion, Omnichord, backing vocals

Brad Towle- Acoustic and Electric Guitar, Banjo, Hammond B-3 Organ, Harmonica, Lead and backing vocals

Mixed and Engineered by Carl Blackwood

Mastered by Troy Pohl

Album art by Alan Durand-Foster

All lyrics: Chris Blackwell and Brad Towle

"The Feral Children" : Seth Walker, Chloe and Nathan Towle
All music: The Black Fox River Project

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The Black Fox River Project is a band out of the Albany NY area featuring the songwriting of Brad Towle and Chris Blackwell.

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