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It'll All Be Prine In The End

by Adam and the Napiers

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1.
You come home late and you come home early You come on big when you're feeling small You come home straight and you come home curly Sometimes you don't come home at all [Chorus:] So what in the world's come over you And what in heaven's name have you done You've broken the speed of the sound of loneliness You're out there running just to be on the run Well I got a heart that burns with a fever And I got a worried and a jealous mind How can a love that'll last forever Get left so far behind [Chorus] It's a mighty mean and a dreadful sorrow It's crossed the evil line today Well, how can you ask about tomorrow We ain't got one word to say [Chorus] [Ending:] You're out there running just to be on the run You're out there running just to be on the run You're out there running just to be on the run
2.
A man came to our house I believe it was yesterday I would have invited him in But I didn't have a lot to say His anticipation of me opening the door Outweighed my apprehension as it never had before And drove my concentration Right through that hardwood floor I'm taking a walk I'm going outside I'm taking a walk I'm just getting by There's a girl in the White House I don't even know her name Her disheveled appearance Speaks volumes of shame It's an embarrassing situation But a situation just the same The way she walks on others And never takes the blame Upsets my constitution Beyond its mortal frame I'm taking a walk I'm going outside I'm watching the birds I'm just getting by Found a card in the pocket Of my worn-out overalls From a girl in Cedar Rapids Now residing in Idaho Falls I wish you could have been there When she opened up the door And looked me in the face Like she never did before I felt about as welcome As a Wal-Mart Superstore I'm taking a walk I'm going outside I'm taking a walk I don't need a ride I'm watching the birds Flying so high
3.
Jehosaphat the mongrel cat Jumped off the roof today Some would say he fell, but I could tell He did himself away His eyes weren't bright like they were the night We played checkers on the train God bless his soul, he was a tootsie roll But he's a dead cat just the same We are living in the future I'll tell you how I know I read it in the paper Fifteen years ago We're all driving rocket ships And talking with our minds And wearing turquoise jewelry And standing in soup lines We are standing in soup lines Jake the barber's lonely daughter Went down to her daddy's shop She plugged herself to the barber pole And took a little off the top There was pressure on the left, pressure on the right Pressure in the middle of the hole I'm goin' to Maine on a forty-foot crane I'm gonna use it for a fishin' pole We are living in the future I'll tell you how I know I read it in the paper Fifteen years ago We're all driving rocket ships And talking with our minds And wearing turquoise jewelry And standing in soup lines We are standing in soup lines Old Sarah Brown sells tickets Down at the all night picture show Where they grind out sex And they rate it with an "X" Just to make a young man's pants grow No tops, no bottoms, just hands and feet Screaming the posters out on the street Strangling the curious and the weak We give 'em what they want to see-o Give 'em what they want to see We are living in the future I'll tell you how I know I read it in the paper Fifteen years ago We're all driving rocket ships And talking with our minds And wearing turquoise jewelry And standing in soup lines We are standing in soup lines
4.
I know a guy that's got a lot to lose He's a pretty nice fellow, but kind of confused He's got muscles in his head that ain't never been used Thinks he own half of this town Starts drinking heavy, gets a big red nose Beats his old lady with a rubber hose Then he takes her out to dinner, buys her new clothes That's the way that the world goes 'round That's the way that the world goes 'round You're up one day, the next, you're down It's half an inch of water and you think you're gonna drown That's the way that the world goes 'round I was sitting in the bathtub counting my toes When the radiator broke, water all froze I got stuck in the ice without my clothes Naked as the eyes of a clown I was crying ice cubes, hoping I'd croak When the sun come through the window, the ice all broke I stood up and laughed, thought it was a joke That's the way that the world goes 'round That's the way that the world goes 'round You're up one day, the next, you're down It's half an inch of water and you think you're gonna drown That's the way that the world goes 'round

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This EP is intended to make you smile while remembering John Prine and the wonderful legacy of songs that he's left behind.

Adam and the Napiers is a long distance lockdown project celebrating the songs of John Prine featuring Adam Ross (Randolph's Leap), Findlay Napier, Gillian Frame and, if you listen very closely, Lucy Napier.

They picked four of their favourite John Prine songs and recorded them in their homes, sending bits and bobs (wavs and stems) back and forth across the world wide internet. Over two (or maybe three) months the arrangements grew from simple guitar and vocals into full band versions. Adam added drums, basses and electric guitars, Findlay added loads of backing vocals and acoustic guitars, Gillian added vocals and fiddles and Lucy added a backing vocal and designed the cover.

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released April 2, 2020

ADAM ROSS: Lead Vocals on, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, Drums, Harmonica, Harmonium, Organ, Keyboard, Percussion and Backing Vocals
FINDLAY NAPIER: Lead Vocal on, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, High Strung Guitar, Backing Vocals
GILLIAN FRAME: Lead Vocals on Fiddles, Backing Vocals
LUCY NAPIER: Backing Vocals
FRASER GIBSON: Trombone

Recorded during the first lockdown in Findlay's spare room in Glasgow and Adam's house in Aberdeenshire.

Mixed by Adam Ross at his house

Mastered by Jon Huxtable (Smallfish Recordings)

Cover design- Lucy and Findlay Napier

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Adam and the Napiers is a long distance lockdown project celebrating the songs of John Prine featuring Adam Ross (Randolph's Leap), Findlay Napier, Gillian Frame and, if you listen very closely, Lucy Napier.

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