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I Take My Whiskey Neat

from The Wayside Ballads Vol 3 (2021) by Bill Jackson

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I TAKE MY WHISKEY NEAT
An unusual visual lyric and a logical cascading sequence for an excuse to drink neat whiskey and reflect on the world we live in.

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I Take My Whisky Neat (Ross Jackson/Bill Jackson)

No river flowed wild across flat bedrock white
Could smooth out the edges and make it feel right
Not a hundred Hank songs or words ever spoke
Could sing back a heart that’s just been broke

Where there’s smoke there’s fire
Where there’s fire there’s heat
Where there’s heat there’s drinking
I take my whisky neat

No songbird so sad could sing like the breeze
As it sighs through the branches and leaves of my trees
No raindrops fallen from a dark winter sky
Could warm down the cheek like a tear from my eye

Where there’s smoke there’s fire
Where there’s fire there’s heat
Where there’s heat there’s drinking
I take my whisky neat

No words of sorrow to a billion ears
Could change the hatred of a thousand years
We’ve come too far and for way too long
And how come we’re still talking about dropping the bomb

Where there’s smoke there’s fire
Where there’s fire there’s heat
Where there’s heat there’s drinking
I take my whisky neat

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from The Wayside Ballads Vol 3 (2021), released April 19, 2021
Bill Jackson: Acoustic Guitar/Vocal
Shannon Bourne: Electric Guitar
Stephen Hadley: Upright Bass

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Bill Jackson Melbourne, Australia

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