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CUT AND RUN
The determination of a singer song writer for immortality and to pen a lasting song - not quitting until the whiskey bottle was empty and the song completed.

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Throwaway Song (Bill Jackson/Ross Jackson)

He was writing about wizards throwing wands up and down
Thrilling the crowd with the sparkling sound
And when the smoke cleared, he wasn’t around
He was nowhere to be found

He had vanished along some lonesome road
On a map from his past where sins had been sewn
Dragged him on down through the weight of their load
It’s a ragged old garden we hoe

He sat there in silence working on
A bottle of whiskey and a throwaway song
And he weren’t going to quit till both were done
He was not one to cut and run

As the sun broke through the slaughtered sky
Of black and blood as night time died
On a rainy day that refused to cry    
He made up another lie

This broken world just rambles on
Many long years after he’s gone
There’s nothing left here to say he belonged
Besides a throwaway song

He sat there in silence working on
A bottle of whiskey and a throwaway song
And he weren’t going to quit till both were done
He was not one to cut and run
No he was not one to cut and run

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from The Wayside Ballads Vol 3 (2021), released April 19, 2021
Bill Jackson: Acoustic Guitar/Vocal
Kerryn Tolhurst: Acoustic Guitar/Mandolin/Keyboards
Mischa Herman: Pennywhistle

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Bill Jackson Melbourne, Australia

'His songs are gritty and real and come at you like a hammer, ringin' in the mornin'. Take it or leave it, he's telling it straight up' (Shane Howard)

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