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Bones Of The Boulevard

from Good Bones by Jim Ballard

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The Strangs: Wes McCraw, guitar and vocal; Tim Longfellow, keyboards; Bill Watson, bass; Joe Lang, drums; Jim Ballard, guitar and vocal
Backing Vox, Thomas Kincaid and Nate Vaill

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Bones Of The Boulevard

On the pavement where the sidewalk starts
In the doorway of a thousand hearts
The stories and the mem’ries still linger on
Somethin’ that you just can’t put your finger on
The pulse in the veins of the bones of the boulevard

There are footsteps like ghosts in the wind
And the whisperin’ like voices of your kin
watchin from the rooftops watchin from the street
While the underground rises to the bottoms of your feet
Don’t have to look too hard to find the bones of the boulevard

And its human hearts dreams and hope
Mortar and brick and steel and rope
And its stone
on stone
on stone
on the bones
Bones of the boulevard

**was once a place of prosperity full of large tribes
now you see abandoned buildings once the boulevard dies
roses comin’ out the concrete wakin up from my sleep
take the bones and make museums come alive like its Jumanji
it won’t live if we don’t breathe it and hope the kids can see it
let the youth get with experience to make us all acheive it
we survived the worst of treatment so let defeat walk the street beneath it
the city’s got heart and this is where we need to keep it**

If the threadbare shopworn walls could tell
All the stories and the lives that they know so well
People in the trolleys and the curbside crawl
The singers and the drummers in the music hall
Gonna roll it all
On the bones of the boulevard






**rap lyric by LDG

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from Good Bones, released April 26, 2019

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Jim Ballard Akron, Ohio

Jim Ballard
A native of NE Ohio, Jim Ballard has been, for many years a part of the recording/performing community. After touring and performing all over the country with artists from 10,000 Maniacs to Gordon Lightfoot,The Mekons to Pete Seeger, he moved into his studio, Skylyne. There, he has recorded and worked with artists from Michael Stanley to Don Dixon and Alex Bevan. ... more

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