Saint Augustine

from I'll Take It With Me by Luke Callen

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Recorded at Toy Car Studios
All lyrics and Instrumentation by Luke Callen
12 String Guitar
Six String electric guitar
six string acoustic guitar
Rhodes Piano
Upright Piano

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Have you heard about the man
Running round the town
No matter where you live boy
he's following ya down

His chin is dripping is dripping
With the fat of the lamb
from it he rings the song of the damned

His pockets they are lined
with a hundred lawyers
All telling me boy
You couldn't understand

In his hand he holds a pen
soaked in the young folks blood
He writes of the coming flood

He's singing go one forget just what you need
And take it down to Saint Augustine

He holds the worst of creation
Uneasy in his grip
His calls of destruction
The crack like a whip

Well some fall in line
Some go off to war
Some sleep with the bombs at their door

He's singing go one forget just what you see
And take it down to Saint Augustine

Now you'll see him in the eyes
Of every widow that he's made
Each tear she weeps
A thousand just the same

So if ya chance to meet him
In some dark alley way
show him not the light of day

He's singing go one forget just what you believe
And take it down to Saint Augustine

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from I'll Take It With Me, released October 28, 2017

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Luke Callen Minneapolis, Minnesota

Luke Callen is originally from the river town of La Crosse, WI-the heart of the Driftless Region-and currently lives in Minneapolis, MN by way of Colorado. A teller of tall tales and a singer of short tunes-Luke lugs around a couple of guitars-a few harmonicas and even a banjo if he has to. A simple writer and liver who cares more about his cast irons than he does about his interweb streams. ... more

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