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Charlie Manson's Wedding (Home Demo)

from UNRELEASED SONGS VOL​:​2 by Paul Roland

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Charlie Manson’s Wedding (Home Demo)
I got a letter from Ellie Mae she’s getting hitched a week come Sunday
Don’t know nuthin’ ‘bout the groom, no sir
‘Cept he’s doing ten to twenty in stir

Yeah I’ve been invited to a swanky do
All the cons will be there and the crazies too
Gonna be a ring ding hullabaloo
Might even take a bath and get a new tattoo

He’s no spring chicken, but hey, what the hell
They won’t be playing house in no six foot cell
She’ll bust him out and they’ll go on the lam
She’ll get him out if anyone can

I’ll get my coon dog and clean my gun
Sweet home Alabama we’ll have us some fun
Them banjo pickers will play ‘here comes the bride’
Lawdy mama, we’ll get dixie fried

We’re all going to Charlie Manson’s wedding
Gonna get higher than a hog at mating time
Yeah we’re all going to Charlie Manson’s wedding
Gonna give away that little girl of mine

She’s real enterprising that girl of mine
She’s pricklier than a porcupine
Can’t believe she’s all growed up
Drinks, cusses and fights and drives a pick up truck

He could croak anytime soon five will get you ten it’ll be on their honeymoon
But she’s got a scheme to make us some dough
Exhibiting his carcass in a travellin’ show

I might tear up when I give away the bride jus’ like I did fur Bonnie and Clyde
Yeah I might get sappy when I give her away now my baby’s in the family way

Note: ‘ten to twenty in stir’ means sentenced to ten to twenty years in jail. ‘in the family way’ means pregnant.

Paul: I dropped this because it was a mite too whimsical to sit well in the context of ‘1313 Mocking Bird Lane’ and it was another case of the good ol’ Southern boy not sitting too comfortably with the Englishman.

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from UNRELEASED SONGS VOL​:​2, released September 30, 2022

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Formerly managed by June Bolan, Paul has been spinning supernatural and historical-themed tales against a backdrop of gothic rock, psych-pop and baroque strings, earning him the sobriquet, ‘The Male Kate Bush' (attributed to former label mate Robyn Hitchcock) ... more

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