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Daddy's Little Girl

from Quarantine Kitchen by Jim Ballard

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It strikes me how very young people, children still, are sometimes faced with overwhelming choices... and how sad that is, no matter. Its not the choices made, but the fact that they are faced with them as just kids and often end up 'losing' their childhood.

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Daddy's Little Girl ©Jim Ballard 2018

Janie got a seat on the crosstown took it to the second stop
Papers blowin' round in the dirty town she steps down to the walk
Looks up at the clock by the drive in teller knows she's a little bit late
Still time to turn back, it ain't that white and black
but she's outta money and she's outta state

She's daddy's little girl in a grown up world
outta sight and goin' outta her mind
and runnin
runnin outta time

Never ate a bite at the restaurant shredded napkin and a tip left behind
No appetite, never slept all night down to the wire still ain't made up her mind
Its hard sometimes walkin a lonely line where no side is sellin' alibis
Its a lonely choice when the only voice you can hear, you don't recognize

She's daddy's little girl in a grown up world
outta sight and goin' outta her mind
and runnin
runnin outta time

Two hearts beat in the noon day heat two hands can't help but shake
Two minute ride ain't no time to decide if it's give or if it's take
Spins on her heel and walks up straight feelin' like just one grain of sand
Against the wind will she think she's sinned once this cup passes from her hand

Like a soldier in the fire of a battlefield like a sailor starin' down a typhoon
Nothin' can replace comin' face to face
with your demons in the hour of high noon
So don't you swear no oaths don't you shed no tears
don't you be the one out flingin' stones
'Cause there but for the close of a door its you who'd be under the gun

She's daddy's little girl in a grown up world
outta sight and goin' outta her mind
and runnin… runnin outta time

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from Quarantine Kitchen, released February 8, 2021
Piano~Tim Longfellow
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Bass~Bill Watson
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Guitar/Vocal/Harmonica~Jim Ballard

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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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