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Gethsemane Blues

Verse 1

Judas of Iscariot where ya’ rambling?
Ya’ got a new steel guitar and some silver spurs.
He said “Junkbox Jimmy, I been all night gambling
With Pharisees in the trees where it all occurred.“

Well, them righteous hillbillies
They were drunk and fat.
There was a rodeo clown and a Cheshire Cat.
Messiah in the kitchen unleavenin’ the bread.
I got money in my shoe but my soul feels dead.

Chorus

Gethsemane Blues (2x)
Gethsemane!

Verse 2

Weren’t you in that crew with that heretic?
Messianic beatnik with a banjo stick.
He was singing that song that I still can’t play
About the Truth, The Life, The Love and The Way.

Until a blackjack game they asked me play
Said Judas, I was innocent, just trying to pray.
Had my head bowed, eyes closed, words to say
His eyes glowed like a bourbon-black judgment day, yeah!

Chorus

Gethsemane Blues (2x)
Gethsemane!

Verse 3

Well, I didn’t have money to bet against gold
They said no sweat you can bet from the safe in your soul.
I didn’t think twice to lay it all down
Nobody gets hustled by a Rodeo Clown!

But lo’ and behold it was the Cheshire Cat
Who shuffled the cards and started to deal.
Never seen an apparition throw cards like that
So I bet my whole soul thinking this can’t be real.

Chorus

Gethsemane Blues (2x)
Gethsemane!

Bridge and Finale

All of a sudden he looked up at the sun.
Traded me his steel guitar for my old man’s gun.

We heard a hammer and the lynch mob cry.
They put his boss on a cross made o’ railroad ties.
And Judas said I didn’t think that it would happen to the chosen one (4x)

He can get down!
Why don’t he get down?! (4x)

credits

from Funeral Songs, track released May 6, 2016
Written by: T.J. Volgare and David Staples

T.J. Volgare - Lead Vocals
David Staples - Rhythm Guitar
Simpson Eason - Drums
Steven DeConto - Bass
Michael DePue - Lead Guitar
Paula Hardy - Additional Vocals, Piano, Organ.

Produced, Tracked, and Mixed Live by Ryan Pickett at "Pickett's Gym" in Durham, N.C.

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St. Anthony and The Mystery Train Durham, North Carolina

A band of storytellers taking cues from the magical realism of Tom Waits, the free-associations of Bob Dylan, and the misfit spirituals of Johnny Cash. The stories inside the music are best described as a stream of Southern-Gothic consciousness, short pieces of theatre in which every musician, playing a combination of garage rock, blues, & country, is a "character." ... more

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