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Bobo and the Cattle

from LIVE in American Bookshops by The Bookshop Band

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BOBO AND THE CATTLE
Inspired by Don’t Let’s Go To The Dog’s Tonight, by Alexandra Fuller.

lyrics

Don’t let’s go to the dogs tonight
Though the chances are high and there’s signs that we might
Don’t let’s go to the dogs tonight
There’s work to be done
And two makes it light
We take the horses and ride on the sand
The cattle are lost and they must be found
They’ll keep a herd
But they’ve had years to roam
You know the dogs are thirsty
And we should go home
We didn’t plan to drink today
But the path narrows out
And I’m starting to sway
I said “I’ll wait here for you” ...
And now I’m alone
The sun is going
And our dogs have gone.

Don’t let’s go to the dogs tonight
Though I can hear them howling
And I think that I might
Don’t let’s go to the dogs tonight
Though I can hear them howling
And I think that I might

You came back just in time
With the dogs and the horses
And a cattle line
These days of sweat make the land sown
But that’s just what makes this my home
And that’s what makes this my home

Don’t let’s go to the dogs tonight
We’ve made it home and now it’s night
Don’t let’s go to the dogs tonight
I can hear them howling but we’re alright
Don’t let’s go to the dogs tonight
We got whisky here in the starlight
Don’t let’s go to the dogs tonight
We got whisky here in the starlight

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from LIVE in American Bookshops, released August 11, 2020
Hearth Fire Books
31st January 2019 - Evergreen CO.
A shop known as much for its books as its position in being the region’s premiere frozen yogurt outlet. About a third of the shop was a semi-circular array of dispensers emitting unworldly flavours such as pomegranate and raspberry, cake dough and Oreo flavour frozen yogurt, followed by health-food style dispenser buckets filled with marshmallows, Reese’s Pieces, broken ginger nuts and lychees. It was, without question, the nicest smelling bookshop we have ever played in.

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The Bookshop Band Bath, UK

The Bookshop Band write songs inspired by books and play them in bookshops. They started as a collaboration between a group of musicians in Bath and their local independent bookshop, Mr B's Emporium. Now they are about to go on tour, sponsored by Vintage Books and Independent Booksellers Week, around other bookshops and lit fests. Catch them if you can. Details at www.thebookshopband.co.uk ... more

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