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A strong woman breaks free of an abusive past.

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Glen Oak Blues

Your mama was a manipulator
Your daddy was a world class hater
Of black people, brown people, yellow people, Indians, Jews
And I don’t know how you came out of that mess
Why you’re not just like ‘em is anybody’s guess
But somehow you escaped those Glen Oak Blues
The nuns at school were petty tyrants
Your lovers filled with senseless violence
Your bosses nearly always hit on you
Still you grew up straight and you grew up true
In spite of everything they tried to do to you
Somehow you escaped those Glen Oak Blues

Your daddy’s daddy used to beat him
So he beat you till you were fifteen
Your mom denied she ever saw a bruise
Both her folks were alcoholic,
Melancholic, hyperbolic,
But somehow you escaped those Glen Oak Blues
You grew up brave and you grew up strong
In spite of everyone that’d done you wrong
They offered you their chains but you refused
And I don’t know how you came out of that mess
Why you’re not just like ‘em is anybody’s guess
Somehow you escaped those Glen Oak Blues

Somehow you turned out kind
With an open heart and a fearless mind
They offered you their chains but you refused
And I don’t know how you came out of that mess
Why you’re not just like ‘em is anybody’s guess
But somehow you escaped those Glen Oak Blues
Somehow you escaped those Glen Oak Blues

© words & music by Jim Patton
Independent Alligator Publishing Co (ASCAP)

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from The Great Unknown, released July 1, 2013

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Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus Austin, Texas

Austin folk rock songwriters Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus return with their 7th CD on Houston's Berkalin Records. This time they're leaning toward the rock side of their folk-rock equation with a sound more comparable to Tom Petty or the Byrds.

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