Name: Everybody Pick Up A Guitar
Duration: P00H03M39S
Description: Words & music by Ed Wenn.

Everybody Pick Up A Guitar

from Gateway to the South by Big Ray

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Words & music by Ed Wenn.

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You disappeared, but I got you back.
Shacked up in South London with Mac Rebennack.
I was stuck in Saint James Booker Infirmary
So it's kon kon the kiddy kon kon gris, gris

I spent eight days a week with Polythene Pam
She could hip shake, shimmy, Mississippi Goddam
Now I'm stumbling through the heart of a Saturday Night
With Miss Emmylou Harris in these arms of mine

I feel it flowing through me again.
Can you feel it flowing through you?

We are the one, but that's subject to change.
In another state of mind and feeling jealous again.
So take a load off, Annie; please understand
That my sweet lord is the alligator man

There was a girl playing "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue"
There was a girl with a song in her heart.
There was a boy working out "I Wanna Be Your Dog"
There was a boy with a song in his head.

There was a boy who picked up a guitar.
There was a girl who picked up a guitar.
Everybody pick up a guitar.

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from Gateway to the South, released February 1, 2014
Ed Wenn
Vocals, rhythm guitars & 1st half bass

Rupert Coulson
2nd half bass, keyboards, backing vocals & percussion

Pete Woodward
Lead guitar

Eric Vogt
Drums

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Big Ray London, UK

Big Ray has been around in various incarnations since 1991 lurching from 'full time band' to 'state of mind' & all flavours in-between. The personnel shifts & expands, but centres around Ed Wenn & 2 or 3 close friends. The musical starting point has remained constant; a mix of The Who, The Kinks, Big Star, CSNY & Steve Earle layered over a punk rock sensibility & attitude. ... more

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