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Jacob Row

from California Bound by Michael Mazochi

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On the shores of the alimony and all that’s dead and gone
Through the thickest fog I’d ever seen, my first child was born
His names was Jacob Row, for the ship his daddy did sail
And I didn’t recognize the bars on which his freedom jailed

Well he was just a baby in November of ‘73
In the bitterness of abandon I did watch his conscience flee
And he gasped on through the evening of many a midnight mud
With a fire they had not seen before just risin in his blood

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They sang “Hail hail and row Jacob Row”

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Well he became a mariner out on the lonesome sea
And he conquered many an army leaving only misery
To every land he traveled and every land he sold
But he traded in his blessings for a pocked full of gold

The men would sing his praises and the ladies screamed his name
“Jacob Row the Mariner the man who’s half insane”
And he came to a fortune teller who told him of his fate
How his body would be taken and his soul they would forsake

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But they sang “Hail hail and row Jacob Row”

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One night Jacob Row came to a gambling town
And he bragged of all his fortunes to all who were around
And he met many a damsel and he drank from many a cup
But with a decadent sip of madness you know Jacob’s game was up

And they dragged his body down to the cold and lonesome sea
Some say his selfish spirit still walks in eternity
And on the shores of the alimony and all that’s dead and gone
Through the thickest fog I’d ever seen Jacob’s child was born

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They sang “Hail hail the son of Jacob Row”

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from California Bound, released October 1, 2006

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Michael Mazochi Los Angeles, California

Started folky, got rocky, then digitized.

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