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Shimmy

from Gateway to the South by Big Ray

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Words & music by Ed Wenn.

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Looking out a motel window on Bondi in ‘88,
You were smoking grass and I was drinking wine
We both stayed up real late.
And nothing was too serious then, we were scared of no-one.
We did what we wanted ‘cos we were the first
Wrote the book as we went along

And it felt so good to me.
Yeah, so fucking good to me.

And we were hanging out with the Burrito Girls in College Town, USA.
The skinheads in Houston didn’t like our style
They threw Texas right in our faces.
And there’s a millionaire’s pad in Baton Rouge
With a girl who hated her job.
There’s a party to crash; a porno stash.
Stuart’s talking 'bout his Granddad’s yacht.

We made the front page in London by talking to fools.
I thought we’d done enough.
But now there’s money talking louder than people can hear
Spending album budgets on lunch.
And when you come around we check our stories out of lost and found
And I know we agree so why can’t we shake up this cynical town?

credits

from Gateway to the South, released February 1, 2014
Ed Wenn
Vocals & acoustic guitars

Michael Hampton
Lead guitars, bass & keyboards

Rich Matthews
Electric guitar

James Peake
Electric guitar

Marc Maitland
Drums

Paul Yeadon
Harmony vocals

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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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