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[Chorus]
Oh take me back to my old town
How I wish that it had never changed
Let the memories come back to me
Let the old times forever stay


I kissed a girl neath the trestle
I remember the taste of her sweat
As a train went by, I looked into her eyes
It's a kiss, I'd never forget

I heard that she died in a car wreck
Her boyfriend drunk at the wheel
Well to know she's died, and to remember her eyes
Oh lord how lonesome that feels


I walk by a house I once stayed in
With my cousins who taught me to fight
We'd run the streets in the Philadelphia heat
Throwing rocks at the train at night

Now, no one I know even lives there
And it looks like it's all been redone
At the end of the block, I pick up a rock
Oh boys, I can still run.

I look out at that Navy shipyard
My grandfather sailed in the war
They rounded the cape, and he boxed feather-weight
They don't build ships no more

Now my grandfather is buried down in Florida
And I don't have time to visit his grave
But when I see a boat, rusty and old
I think Pop, I'll meet you some day

I sit me down on a bar stool
And nobody drinking is a friend
They all moved away, to try for better days
In a house with a yard and fence

My brother, he once sat beside me
And God I wish he was here
So I dream a dream, of the way things used to be
Of them bygone and forgotten years

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from Sleeping With The Devil, released April 16, 2013

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Jeremy Joyce New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans couldn’t offer a more appropriate musical backdrop for Jeremy Joyce, whose genre-defying songs are born out of Jeremy’s macro-level interest in music history and his micro-level interest in what makes songs tick.

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