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05 Playing It Safe
03:09
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06 Possibilitating
03:42
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08 Imperfections No. 2
03:41
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09 Music Everywhere
04:48
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10 The Man I Didn't Kill
03:58
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11 Michael
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12 Watermelon
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Watermelon
Gary Allison Furr
Settin’ on the steps behind Grandpa’s store
Kids with their faces down diggin’ for more
Do you eat it with a knife or a spoon or a fork?
(Get your) face all sticky, You look like a dork.
CHORUS
Pink watermelon
Sweet juice dribbling down
Forget your manners, spit the seeds on the ground.
Cold one in the summer,
Greatest thing you will find
Tastes so good that you eat it to the rind.
No one can tell if you’re eating watermelon
Whether you’re the mayor or a three-time felon.
If you’re poor you might salt it,
If your rich you eat it sweet
On plates so it won’t drip down on your feet
CHORUS
Think you’re high and mighty?
Try getting rid of seeds:
Can’t cut ‘em… can’t hold ‘em, just spit ‘em in the weeds
Can’t save your dignity and swallow ‘em inside
(they’ll grow a) melon in your belly and (bust you) open wide
Some folks make big money
Some make lots of noise
Some get all the attention
Some own all the toys
But despite these grand pretensions
And all our varied needs
I keep thinking about all of us spitting seeds.
Cold one in the summer
Greatest thing you will find
Tastes so good that you eat it to the rind.
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13 Kenyan Night
05:18
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14 Gulf Coast Memories
04:05
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15 Moderate
03:21
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Gary Allison Furr Birmingham, Alabama
Dr. Gary Allison Furr has been playing, writing and singing music his whole life. A veteran of lots of bands of the years,
he performed with Shades Mountain Air, a Birmingham acoustic-bluegrass band for twenty years .
He has played as both solo artist and with the band at a variety of venues, including colleges and universities, conferences, churches, coffee houses and festivals.
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