Each month (more or less), we will install a lyric sheet here for a Shrimp City Slim original song that might be timely.
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I wrote this one inspired by the life & times of my late great friend blues/soul man Walter “Lightnin' Bug” Rhodes (1939-1990). I met Walter in the late 1980s when he moved back down South from NY to take care of his Mom in Hamlet, NC. He lived with his girlfriend Mary in a trailer in an area called Dobbin Heights. His song "Shot at Dobbin Heights (recorded on one his Swingmaster LPs) chronicled the unsavory conditions there.
—April 8 2024 (Charleston, SC)
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GOD IS CALLING (words & music: Gary Erwin, words & music copyright 1991, published by Blue Chasqui Music (BMI). From the 1992 album “Gone With the Wind”.
Try to move into the city / gotta quit this country life
‘Cause they’re dealing down on Main Street / raising hell in Dobbin Heights
My mama's sick of trying / to keep her children on the path
God is calling and the people are talking back
Cut a man down in the crossroads / just for a bottle of wine
Now there's coke around the corner / hear about it all the time
In the city, least there's money / go ahead with this and that
God is calling and the people are talking back
Gonna change my way of living / clean it up and ice it down
Ain't gonna do more fighting / with these monkeys hanging around
Take my woman and my children / and we're never coming back
God is calling and we're heading out where He's at
God is calling and we're heading out where He's at
God is calling and we're heading out where He's at