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Buzzard's Bluff

by Jodee Lewis

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A traditional country song, Buzzard's Bluff is a real place in the Missouri Ozarks where Lewis grew up and a perfect backdrop for coming to terms with the past.

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Verse 1:
If you drive for eighty miles southwest of highway 44
To those Ozark woods where outside folks don't stay
There's a cliff called Buzzard's Bluff where we would lie on high ground and watch the birds below circle around their prey.
And we would pray.
We would pray.

Chorus:
There ain't nobody's gonna run in here and save me
Heaven knows I can't save myself
I've got no more tears and I've got nothing left for taking
You know the dead don't ever call for help.

Verse 2:
It was eighteen miles to town, another mile to Congress Hill
We spent our childhood locked inside a double-wide
No neighbor ever knocked and no one looked us in the eye
It's no one's business what goes on inside.
Goes on inside.

Chorus

Bridge:
I used to pray to be a bird and fly away
Not one time or two, but every single day
Everyone may look the other way,
But I know what happened.
God knows what happened.

Chorus

credits

released January 5, 2018
Jodee Lewis - vocals and acoustic guitar
Doug Zylstra - slide and acoustic guitar
Katie Abernethy - fiddle
Christian Dillingham - upright bass and tambourine
Jad Jabbour - Drums
Produced by David Cover, Columbia, Missouri

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Jodee Lewis Chicago, Illinois

A native of the Missouri Ozarks, Jodee was raised on folk songs and honky-tonk, and her music reflects the best of both worlds. Her songwriting conveys a personal tale of pain and hope, delivered with a voice that has been called "hauntingly gorgeous" by Maverick Magazine and "simple, aching, and hearty" by NewCity Chicago. ... more

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