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You Can Cry In Your Beer

from Cowboys On The Skyline by J.W. McClure with Thaddeus Spae

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Stanislove on dobro. Rick and Mary Tuel reprise a 1981 performance of backup vocals

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You can Cry in Your Beer
So, hard not to get discouraged
Sometimes you’re bound to feel troubled and blue
You can’t find the answer in the book and in the stars
I can tell you what I learned hanging out in bars, Humm….

You can cry, you can cry in your beer if you want to
You can cry while some fool sings a song
You can take a sweet lady to a cheap hotel
Cry in her arms and go home, Humm…

As you calmly put your quarter in the juke box
You see her drinking all alone
You’re hoping maybe but then ‘probably not’
Appears at her side and takes her home

You can cry, you can cry in your beer
If you want to
You can cry while some fool sings a song
You can take a cheap lady to a sweet hotel
Cry in her arms and go home, Humm…

And the dealer deals himself a mess of aces
Rain clouds follow you around
The raging river splits apart your happy home
You swim to the bar just to drown, Humm.

Ohhh! “Lida Rose. I’m home again Rose
Without a sweetheart to my name..,”
Humm….Hic! (‘Lida Rose’ lyrics from Meredith Wilson and The Music Man]

You can cry, you can cry in your beer
If you want to
You can cry while some fool sings a song
You can dream a while
You can drink a lot, cry for a cab (“Taxi”)
And go home (“It’s so poetic”)
© John W. McClure, 1979

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from Cowboys On The Skyline, released August 1, 2011
J.W. McClure

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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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