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Music & Lyrics: John Harper

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I am just a poor boy
From Lonesome, Tennessee
Working on the steamer
When the sheriff come to me
Pulled out his pistol
For all to see
Bad news for me
Bad news for me

I have got a liquor still
Tucked up in the glen
Sheriff took his horses
And fifteen men
Tore down the siphon
And he burned up the pen
Bad news for me
Bad news for me

Sheriff said ten days
Judge he gave me twenty
Bound to spend it down in the Galley
That was 15 days ago
Now I’ve just got five
Bad news for me
Bad news for me

Oh, bad news, bad news
trouble’s all I find
Sometimes it seems it’s all’s against me
When I need it to be good
Seems all I can find is
Bad news for me
Bad news for me

Daddy was a rounder
Momma knew him well
She knew about the whiskey
She found out the still
It made her angry
bad enough to kill
Bad news for me
Bad news for me

The mill it closed up
Jobs they all left town
Only money to be made
is the whiskey boiling down
All I have’s in the glen
that the sheriff’s done burned down
Bad news for me
Bad news for me

Momma says it serves me right
There’s no way around (it)
Bound to end up just like my daddy
That was 15 years ago
Now I’m all alone
[But that’s just too much
for me to a bide]

Oh, bad news, bad news
trouble’s all I find
Sometimes it seems it’s alls against me
When I need it to be good
Seems all I can find is
Bad news for me
Bad news for me
Bad news for me
Bad news for me

credits

from Not the Love You Wanted, released May 13, 2018
Michael Carotenuto, bass
John Harper, guitar and vocals
Josh Olivier-Mason, ukelele and vocals
Don Shulsinger, banjo
David Walsh, harmonica
Joy Walsh, vocals

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Mill Town Rounders Boston, Massachusetts

The Mill Town Rounders play acoustic rock, bluegrass, and Americana throughout Massachusetts. Drivin' (2023) is the band's second album of originals and features songs about journeys big and small.

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