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Long Gone Blues

from Year of Change by Bird Mancini

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This is far from downtrodden as the blues in this song is incredibly upbeat. It is quite apparent that the blues are long, long gone. Billy Carl croons and growls to Motown background vocals.

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Long Gone Blues
©Billy Carl Mancini (aka Bill Mason), Bonk Zone Music ASCAP

I’d like to sing like some old black man
Sittin’ on a Mississippi porch
I’d like to play like a white albino
Tearing up a Texas honky tonk
I don’t got no black cat bone
I don’t have to be rambling on
But I sure can feel the blues
It comes upon me whenever you’re gone

I get the long gone blues
Creeping up my backbone, what can I do
About the long gone blues
Maybe someday I can be long gone too

Set you down for a spell
As long as you’re here let’s forget about the past
I know it’s just as well
To put some space between us ‘cause we knew it wouldn’t last
Maybe for one night
We can remember the love from our long gone past

I might be walking on a tightrope
I might be falling on down to the floor
But I like to dream and I like to hope
That someday my baby’ll come back for more
I hear the rain and the black cloud’s thunder
I hear that Mississippi man
I hear the howling hounds down under
It comes upon me whenever you’re gone

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from Year of Change, released September 1, 2004
Billy Carl Mancini-guitars, lead & backup vocals
Ruby Bird-organ, harmonica, tambourine, backup vocals
Kevin Mahoney-bass, backup vocals
Nancy Delaney-drums

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Bird Mancini Boston, Massachusetts

“…a cosmopolitan fusion…pop music in the most adventurous, inclusive sense of the term.” -The Boston Globe

Ruby Bird and Billy Carl Mancini, better known as BIRD MANCINI, Boston's acclaimed accordion/guitar rock duo/band features eclectic and at times a bit psychedelic rock with lush vocal arrangements, blues-tinged guitar, accordion, harmonica, and a variety of percussion, bells and whistles. ... more

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