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The Craziest Kid Around

from Memories & Birds by Kenny Roby

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lyrics

When the black snake saw the sunrise
He knew that it wasn't time
While he thought the road was empty
He knew not there was something wrong

My older brother's got a toothache
That no whiskey in the world will cure
Smells the cakes my mama's bakin'
Oh he ain't gettin' none from her

Sister Dinah brought a new friend
And my mama don't like him much
I saw both them out the kiss tree
Didn't look like kissin' to me

Well I heard the preacher talkin'
To some men down in the town
And I don't quite understand it
So it ain't gonna get me down

“You don't have to go to know”
“You don't have to go to know”

There's a man down Angel Tree Road
And I bet no one knows his name
They say he used to talk at college
And all the people would listen to him

My daddy calls him “The 'Fesser”
But he says it like it's a cuss
Someone said he loved a black girl
I can't see why it matters much

We haven't seen the goat we got last year
Since the middle of this July
She disappeared right after the big storm
I told my brother I bet she died

Heard my uncle down in town one day
Say “It's just unnatural”
And I don't understand all that the people say
So I'm just gonna play it cool

“You don't have to go to know”
“You don't have to go to know”

Found a snake when Mama was bakin'
It was just about as flat as the ground
It was dead and I was shakin'
Why am I the craziest kid around?

“You don't have to go to know”
“You don't have to go to know”

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from Memories & Birds, released April 2, 2013
Kenny Roby – vocals, acoustic guitars, keyboards
Jason Merritt – high string guitars, keyboards
Andriana Markano – viola
Josh Starmer – cello
Matt Douglas - flute
Caroline Mamoulides – background vocals
Caitlin Cary – background vocals
Lynn Blakey - background vocals

Produced by Jason Merritt and Kenny Roby

Recorded by Jason Merritt at Overdub Lane in Durham, NC and Underdub in Carrboro, NC

Additional recording by Kenny Roby

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Kenny Roby North Carolina

Founding member of 6 String Drag. Their 1997 album “High Hat” was released to national critical acclaim. (co-produced by Steve Earle and Ray Kennedy and released on Earle’s Warner Brothers imprint label E-Squared)
In 1998, Roby went solo and released three excellent but vastly different solo records: Mercury’s Blues, Rather Not Know, and The Mercy Filter. His new album Memories & Birds out 4/2/13. ... more

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