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Bonfire of Roadmaps (Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music Series) PDF

195 Pages·2007·2.019 MB·English
by  Joe Ely
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BONFIRE OF ROADMAPS THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music Series Copyright ©2007by Joe Ely All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 2007 Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to: Permissions University of Texas Press P.O. Box 7819 Austin, TX 78713-7819 www.utexas.edu/utpress/about/ bpermission.html The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ansi/niso z39.48–1992 (r1997)(Permanence of Paper). Library of Congress Cataloging- in-Publication Data Ely, Joe. Bonfire of roadmaps / Joe Ely. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (Brad and Michele Moore roots music series) isbn-13: 978-0-292-71653-7 (cloth : alk. paper) isbn-10: 0-292-71653-2 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Ely, Joe—Travel. 2. Country musi- cians—Travel. 3. Voyages and travels— Poetry. 4. Lyric poetry. I. Title. ml420.e54a3 2007 782.421642092—dc22 [b] 2006023534 JOE E LY BONFIRE of ROADMAPS University of Texas Press Austin THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK CONTENTS 52 Cities till Christmas 9 Iron Rhinos 43 Bonfire of Roadmaps 68 One Fuse of a Summer 90 Lord of the Highway 110 Gulf War One 116 Jim Beam 131 Laredo East and West 140 On the Run Again 175 Afterword 193 7 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK 52 CITIES TILL CHRISTMAS Damn, Damn, Damn I kick my self out the door Dragging my ball and chain The yard cats scatter and the buzzards take flight Crazy ol’ Joe is back on the road First stop London, God not again I haven’t been there since the Gulf War made pebbles From the proud stone banks of the Mesopotamia And sold the rights to cnn and bbc I take that back, I was there last week Seeing the city through Marie’s eyes of innocence Tug boats became swans, busses, red castles on wheels In a throng of storybook faces And through the eyes of Sharon Who saw the fabric, the lace and the burlap The scarves and shawls that drape the city And the blossoms on rusty security bars Am I becoming another weary gypsy Like those in Barcelona, drinking wine At Public monuments and Urinals Whose world has shriveled to a paper sack? 9

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