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Ray StClair on lead, Bill Ronstadt on bass

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Blue
Blue was a midnight traveler
Stealing food, sleeping by the light of the day
Blue was a lonesome son of a gun
Who knows what or why made him run a stray

Old Tom bit his ear off
Fighting and fussing and going for the same dang mouse
Both were sleeping out under the trees
Hoping for a friendly house

Chorus
Won’t you come on Blue. I’ve got a warm fire
Mama’s got a meal for you
Sleep at my feet at the foot of the bed
Part of the family too

Won’t you come on Blue
Life has a funny way of catching up
And slowing you down
Frost is crawling up over the ledge
Winter is coming round

Storms, floods, raging fires
Fate is a big unknown
You can lose your house in many ways
Or you can lose your way back home

Blue was a cat, Blue was a dog
Blue was a sly fox sleeping out under the bridge
No one never gonna tie him down
No other way to live

Blue got trapped one night in a greenhouse shed
I walked in and there he was sleeping on a spinach bed

He looked at me and I looked at him
I was just staring him down
Blue began to realize the old cat had been found
© John William McClure, 2009

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from Cowboys On The Skyline, released August 1, 2011
J.W. McClure vocal and rhythm guitar, Ray StClair on lead guitar, Bill Ronstadt on bass

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J.W. McClure Seattle, Washington

J.W. McClure lives in Stanwood, Washington. This is a career restarted for me. In the 1970’s I was often an opening act at the Washington D.C. clubs, The Cellar Door and The Childe Harold for Tom Paxton, Dave Van Ronk, Tom Rush and many well known bands. In the 1980’s I returned to Washington to do folk music, satire and stand-up comedy before getting swamped by family and other work. ... more

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