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Sweet Soubrette - Here's How It Goes (Mark Twain)

from Bushwick Book Club presents Mark Twain by The Bushwick Book Club

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This song was inspired by LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI by Mark Twain.
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Here's How it Goes

If you want to be a pilot better learn more than you ought to be allowed to know
Learn every town and every island every point and every crossing every day or so
Keep an everlasting measure of the banks of the river twelve hundred miles
Alluvial the river changes overnight it’s never the same river twice

And it all looks so different from up here
Can’t recall the last time that I let go of the wheel
Now when the sun sets I don’t see the blood and gold
Mastery costs beauty that’s the way it goes
Here’s how it goes

To get this river set to heart you have to know it just like ABC
Read it like the morning paper and learn to understand all that you see
And it’s hard to imagine that a day will come when you’ll know what it means
When you’ll shut your eyes and trace it from St. Louis down to New Orleans

Here’s how it goes

You’ll recognize shoal water and the countless crossing marks
You’ll know the waterway’s shape on gray nights and in the dark
And every shift it makes oh yes you’ll be one step ahead
You’ll pilot when you’re sleeping you’ll pilot when you’re dead

And it all looks so different from up here
Can’t recall the last time that I let go of the wheel
Now when the sun sets I don’t see the blood and gold
Mastery costs beauty that’s the way it goes
Here’s how it goes

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from Bushwick Book Club presents Mark Twain, released December 10, 2012

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The Bushwick Book Club Brooklyn, New York

We started in January 2009 playing songs written in response to Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. We haven't stopped since. We've written & performed songs inspired by everything from "On The Origin of Species" to Dr. Seuss to Raymond Carver. There are BBCs popping up nationwide now. Bushwick Book Club Seattle started in 2010 & is run by Geoff Larson. Our nerdy dare-devilry knows no bounds. ... more

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