"Blue Tears" genre: Bluegrass
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	Bass, guitar, mandolin and vocals. High Lonesome
	CD: halfgrassd   Label: rockfish studios Credits: Tom Proutt and Tom Phillips authors. Bill Cardine and Indidog studios.T.J. Johnson mandolin and backup. Joey Damiano bass. Tom Proutt guitars and Vocal.
	Story Behind the Song A co- write with Tom Phillips, Blue Tears is a song about being led off your land by the feds to help create a new deal and the Blue Ridge Parkway. Lyrics BLUE TEARS PROUTT/PHILLIPS 5/02 INTRO A / G A / A / G D / A / D F / A G / A MY KINFOLK LIVED THERE SINCE JAMESTOWN KING’S GRANT TO THE VERY DAY A T-MAN RODE UP OUR HILLSIDE AT GUNPOINT HE DROVE US ALL AWAY THEY CHASED US STRAIGHT THROUGH KENTUCKEY NEVER THOUGHT WE’D MISS THOSE HARD RED CLAYS UNTIL WE HIT OKLAHOMA IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BONE DRY DUST BOWL DAYS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BONE DRY DUST BOWL DAYS Chorus: THE BLUE RIDGE TEARS AT A BLUE SKY A BLUE WIND CUTS THROUGH THE SWAYING PINE AS OLD TIMES RIP AT MY MEMORY THE BLUEST THING IS THIS HEART OF MINE BreakA GENERATIONS LIVED ON THAT HILLSIDE THEIR HEADSTONES PULLED UP FROM THE GROUND AND EVEN IF WE COULD GO BACK TO VISIT NOT A TRACE OF THEM COULD BE FOUND NOT A TRACE OF THEM COULD BE FOUND CHORUS BREAK CHORUS OUT

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