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Oct 26
Sun5:45 PM
Ardmore, PA · Ardmore Music Hall
· Bandsintown
Cris Jacobs - Poor Davey (feat. Billy Strings) (Official Studio Video)
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2024May 1
Cris Jacobs “Poor Davey (feat. Billy Strings)” (Official Studio Video) ℗ & © 2024 Cris Jacobs / Soundly Music Produced by Jerry Douglas Engineered by Sean Sullivan Assistant engineer - Skylar Chuckry Recorded at The Sound Emporium, Nashville, TN Additional recording at The Tractor Shed, Goodlettsville, TN Mastered by Paul Blakemore Featuring: Cris Jacobs - guitars, vocals Billy Strings - guitar, vocals The Infamous Stringdusters: Travis Book - bass, vocals Andy Falco - guitar Jeremy Garrett - fiddle, vocals Andy Hall - dobro Chris Pandolfi - banjo Download / stream the new record "One Of These Days" here: https://go.crisjacobs.com/OOTDa For the latest news, sign up for Cris Jacobs’ mailing list: www.crisjacobs.com/ Follow: Facebook: www.facebook.com/crisjacobsmusic/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/cris_jacobs/ Lyrics: There’s a house on the hill, with a bad disease Ghosts and dead roots of old family trees Years have gone by since the Browning three, but they never purged the devil away never purged the devil away Something in his eye that day made ma Call up the preacher and call up the law Davey shot one, and ran clean off, nowhere could the boy be found And all of the housewives all gathered round Davey, poor Davey, tell me why you done it, tell me why you done it Davey, poor Davey, tell me why you done it What good is a running gonna do They say the good son is cursed, like a chosen one But they say other things, like what daddy done Who’s the big man, now that I’ve got your gun, oh tell me do you love me now Called in the choppers, called in the fed Soon enough they’ll find him running, or they’ll find him dead Lock down the children, send out a code red, there’s a wild boy on the loose in this town And all of the housewives gathered round Davey, poor Davey, tell me why you done it, tell me why you done it Davey, poor Davey, tell me why you done it What good is a running gonna do Out from the shadows did Davey come in Fired at another, took his wheels from him Sped out up to Fallston town, riding on the rims, til he bailed out in them poplar woods, oh they found him in them poplar woods Well the fruit of the branches don’t fall too far They bruise on the skin, or leave a deeper scar Did the old man or the ghosts play a part, in what poor Davey had done, in what poor Davey had done Davey, poor Davey, tell me why you done it, tell me why you done it Davey, poor Davey, tell me why you done it What good is a running gonna do #crisjacobs #poordavey #billystrings #oneofthesedays #singersongwriter #americana #bluegrass

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