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Little Girl Blue

from Tincture for Trouble by Achilles Tenderloin

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lyrics

I remember you well, at your lemonade stand,
how the cool water dripped on your little, pink hands;
and how no one was buyin', but me and your mom,
so you drank it yourself, 'til the streetlights came on.

Then, several years later, when the streetlights came on,
how we crept to the creek with a ball jar of rum
and a fistful of squares that you stole from your mom;
and they curled up in rings on the tip of your tongue.

Oh, but I never kissed you, my little girl blue,
just spent my nights drawin' and thinkin' 'bout you.
Then, after high school, I had to leave town
to sing for the swallows and sleep on the ground.

Guess I'll never know, if you think of me still,
how we used to sneak out and get high on the hill;
and how I tried to teach you the words to my song,
just to watch the notes dance on the tip of your tongue.

I suppose you've grown older and hardened your hands.
You've forgotten my songs and your lemonade stand.
I imagine you're married, with kids of your own,
whose lemonade tastes like the day I left home.

I never kissed you my little girl blue.
Still sing to the moon,
When I drink about you.
I'm howlin' you into the song of this town.
The owls and swallows
Will follow the sound.

credits

from Tincture for Trouble, track released September 22, 2022
All songs written by Joe Augustin (Achilles Tenderloin)

Joe Augustin: guitar and lead vocals
Kate Wakefield: cello and vocal harmonies
Moriah Lawson: mandolin and and vocal harmonies
Brian Hoeflich: percussion
Patrick Himes: electric bass

Produced and engineered by Patrick Himes at Reel Love Recording Company in Dayton, Ohio.

Mastered by Alex McCullough at True East Mastering in Nashville, Tennessee.

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"File this one under brave, new blues."

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