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The Jim Storie Juniors * What's it Going to Take to Get This Fight Started? (2010)

by Doc Pickles

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Bird Dog 04:57
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Bird Dog (MacDonell/Robinson/Segui/CStorie) bird dog my bird dog he never come home my bird dog my bird dog he's scared of my gun and once the gun goes off I lose sight of my bird dog I fed him the finest food beside the water and I taught him how to tell the difference between the beavers and the otters but now my bird dog ain't never come home no my bird dog bird dog never come home bird dog my bird dog he don't know his name but I held out a piece of biscuit well that's when he came my bird dog don't love me no no no he just likes me to provide for him give him food to eat my bird dog my bird dog he found himself a bitch my bird dog my bird dog had himself a scratch to itch and now I got bird dogs all around my farm by the river my girl was a bird dog she never came home she was out all night at the tavern singing country songs and doing that crazy dance and I was out at the farm and I was thinking about the things I had to grow so I could pay my rent on a farm I didn't own she never came home she never came home so I took away all the space for my bird dog and every bird dog that I ever had I got myself a job as a farm aid working for a farm that received handout money from farm aid I was growing something called arugula that was being exported to China so they could turn it into artificial seal penis pills it was very complicated it was on the down low but I got paid and then the worst thing happened to me that I could've ever imagined happened to me my bird dog came home I don't want my bird dog no more my life was pretty good here I've moved on from my bird dog that never came home my bird dog my bird dog he came home my bird dog my bird dog I got no space for this dog my bird dog my bird dog he did come home my bird dog my bird dog I thought he was forever to roam
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Stone in my Shoe 04:30
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Stone In My Shoe (MacDonell/Robinson/Segui/CStorie) Collective perplexion locked in a hen's nest calcium contains the last great riddle of the west the chicken's an actual chicken wades Plato to the riddle and the chicken's an actual chicken I'm gonna steal me a truck gonna drive it to you I'm gonna shake out my shoes I'm gonna start with empty shoes I'm gonna steal me a truck gonna drive it to you I'm gonna shake out my shoes I'm gonna make sure I got some empty shoes Cos when I come to you I gotta have some new stones in my shoes No stone in my shoe's gonna cause me distraction no relationship gone wrong's gonna cause me no pain, yeah no stone in my shoe's gonna cause me distraction and no soured up relation's gonna cause me no pain I'm coming back to you with a new stone in my shoe Cross the street with a hole in my shoe get a stone to bring back to you Found my way out to a stony beach found a stone to bring back to you I've yelled at stones I've yelled at mountains they all came into my shoe I got a stone to bring home to you It's almost as good as having a story to tell you I got the stones from the crust of the earth in its various locations for you I'm coming back home with a stone in my shoe gonna bring it home to you But no stone in my boot's gonna cause me discomfort no relation's gonna cause me no pain, but no stone in my boot's gonna cause me discomfort no relation's gonna cause me no pain
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Dance Monkey Dance (free) 03:19
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Dance Monkey Dance (Catullus/MacDonell/Robinson/Segui/CStorie) (Catullus to late don't be sorry you see what's gone that's done that's all the sunshine those days bright to you you followed and the girl led on beloved of me as none shall ever be beloved of me as none shall ever be dancing monkey dancing monkey dance monkey dance) Put me up on stage boss I'll entertain them then it's all dance monkey dance Just give me the big break boss I know I can take 'em get all eyes on me and it's dance monkey dance I'll make an ass out of this monkey's ass cos it's dance monkey dance I got a slightly inflated opinion of my ability to entertain a room of strangers and it's dance monkey dance I got a gregarious countenance that goes out but doesn't really bounce nothing back so dance monkey band Cos if it's not the monkey it's you and me so dance monkey dance If we don't have a band got an empty stage then dance monkey dance That's what it comes down to when the wizard's making his big choices and we can't see what lever the wizard's flipping but out front in the stands it's just dance monkey dance it's just dance monkey dance every channel So who pulls the levers? well there's believers and there's nonbelievers and there's all shades of agnostic and indifferent but as long as you can polarize most of them you've got yourself a dynamic then it's dance monkey dance It's dance monkey dance, it's dance monkey dance, yeah monkey clap your hands
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If Love is All I Get 04:40
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If Love Is All I Get Well That Would Be Alright (MacDonell/Robinson/CStorie/JStorie) If love is all I get well that would be alright, if love is all I get well that would be alright, you can keep me out all night never say goodnight but if love is all I get well that would be alright ah you can have the best of me but ah you really got it in for me and that would be alright If love is all I get well that would be alright, if love is all I'm clothed in well that would be alright well you can wear my clothes out on a date and stay out late an never even phone it in if love is all I get well that's what I'm dressed in ah you can have the best of me but ah you really got it in for me and that would be alright Well if love is all I eat well that would be alright if love is all I get to eat well that would be alright you can mix the nutmeg into everything I eat and even leave out the sage but if that's all I get to consume well that would be okay ah you can have the best of me but ah you really got it in for me and that would be alright If love is all I get well that would be alright, if love is all I get well that would be alright, you can have it both ways and still lay a claim to the middle way but not all ways but it love's all I get well I'll take the byways and ah you can have the best of me but ah you really got it in for me and that would be alright If love is all I get well that would be alright, If love is all I get well that would be alright, ah you really got it in for me but ah you can have the best of me and that would be alright
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I Won't Write 02:47
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I Won't Write (MacDonell/Robinson/Segui/CStorie) But you won't see me in sight and I won't write no I won't write I won't write You can be lined up for your last meal and ask for me in sight I'm done with coming when I'm called I'll be far away and I won't write no I won't write You can ask me who should represent me by paper or proxy Will I fill it in? Oh I might, will I post it? No I won't excercise my right I won't write no I won't write But if you put it up in the sky write the moon from side to side say that I I might have been just a little bit write would I write? Well what I've seen I just might I might write.
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Girl on the Green 04:20
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Girl On The Green (MacDonell/Robinson/CStorie/JStorie) I'm gonna marry that girl on the green I'm gonna marry that girl on the green I'm gonna marry that girl on the green I'm gonna marry that girl on the green Hemmed in mud but she kept on spinning whirling in the expo section out there reeling with no reason dancing in the harvest season oh I'm gonna marry that girl on the green I'm gonna marry that girl on the green I'm gonna marry that girl on the green I'm gonna marry that girl on the green I don't care what my Maisy's saying out there in the expo secion it's not like I'm betrothed to wedding I don't care what my Maisy's saying I'm gonna marry that girl who's dancing I'm gonna marry that girl on the green one day saw down on the green saw a girl dancing while I was singing She did dance while I did sing not like I'm betrothed to wedding I'm gonna marry that girl on the green I'm gonna marry that girl who's dancing Oh she did dance while I did while I did sing jig above the mud and dancing out there in the muddy green Oklahoma harvest green Oh I'm gonna marry that girl on the green I'm gonna marry that girl on the green I'm gonna marry that girl on the green gonna marry that girl get her off of that green Well she had a halo of mud on her gown mussed up brown mud all around mussed in a halo of a mudded up brown she stepped over clover but she never looked down Down in the valley where I met that girl thought nobody ever was a'better did twirl down there just she kept on carrying on oh I kept singing 'less'n she be all gone I'm gonna marry that girl on the green I'm gonna marry that girl on the green gonna marry that girl get her off of that green I'm gonna marry that girl on the green I was a'fearing to blink my eye I was a'fearing to blink my eye I was a'fearing to blink my eye she'd be all gone when the song's a'silent Sang my song 'til my voice went dry I sang my song until my voice went dry apparition was all gone a'fore I opened up my eye I asked her daddy but her daddy was drunk when he did think he thought he thunk asked her momma instead but she didn't like men and she carried a gun I'm not gonna marry that girl on the green not gonna marry that girl on the green I'm not gonna marry that girl on the green gonna marry my safe old Maisy instead Oh Maisy Maisy lend me your ear and I'll sing a tune for you...
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Lately Not Now 03:01
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Lately Not Now (MacDonell/Robinson/CStorie) Lately not now I've thought of you in that cloud lately not here I wished that you were near ooh I have lately but now written beautiful poems I'd send to you lately not now the time is not Now now now now now now now now now ooh Sometimes not this time I had the time to give you all my time I reached out and not in and you didn't grab my hand back and nothing did begin well lately but not now I had space in my poem books for you I'd draw our names together I'd sketch flowers Has anybody seen any flowers lately? has anybody seen any flowers? I haven't received I haven't delivered has anybody seen any flowers? I have lately not now I have lately but not now
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Stars Everlasting (with Jim Storie Juniors) 01:27
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Stars Everlasting (Emerson/MacDonell/Robinson/CStorie/JStorie) Well he drank til the stars went out the sun had come up the birds sang on the walk home someone remembered he'd left but he couldn't be found Fell in love with himself but toasted his health but laughed about it later but cried when she left him but not for the whole night Cos it's the stars everlasting and fugitive also and emulate maudlin lamp post seeks lightening the firefly's flight
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Watching the Pelicans Fly Over the Keys 04:43
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Watching The Pelicans Fly (MacDonell/Robinson/Segui/CStorie) Darling won't you come with me down on the sargasso sea? Out over the reef faraway out faraway out at sea I see the shades of the V one pair of wings in the lead watching the pelicans fly over the keys watching the pelicans fly over the keys and I cling to my reef with the pelicans above me Lordy lordy he's got pain to kill and what a pain oh lord oh yes it is darling come let's go down to the Gulf of Mexico oh darling come with me we'll trip the keys go to sargasso seas When the pelicans flow that's when I know it's a safe time to go out into the sea in my sloop in my sloop out on the Gulf of Mexico so pelicans fly when it's the wrong time all scattered and solo well then it's time the time is right to draw in the nets and take home my rowboat I got pelicans above me I can tell the time when the pelicans above me my reef on the Florida keys Smells like salt smells like seaweed but it's my wharf and it's my reef and it's my paradise to me all I've got's the sea not a storm or a hurricaine ain't never sharpened a knife and got it in for me I get along just great me and the sea I watch the pelicans fly and think back on my life the things I got that I didn't need the people I hurt who ought not to be And I just think how the pelicans fly straight line first flips its wings they all flap their wings fly divine without an ounce of conflict how the pelicans fly sargasso sea
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Juice 01:49
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Juice (MacDonell/Robinson/CStorie) I came home thirsty I came home tired I needed some nectar to put into my body that was so tired Did I want coffee did I want beer no no I wanted some juice I wanted juice I wanted to have a drink of juice And what did you tell me? You told me "you didn't want no juice"
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Undoing 03:19
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Undoing (MacDonell/Robinson/CStorie) Man when this hits the fan it's gonna stink boy I know you're hoping for more but just don't blink shrug for the growing crowds in the reception when they appear they're gonna check your works with a comb Things that are poisining your ruin that's gonna be your undoing. Quit digging you're looking for meaning where there is none poisining you're ruining yourself for the big one just nail that poster to the wall and go look for a better one well now you growed up you better go out there and get yourself a dog and get yourself a job Things that are poisining your ruin that's gonna be your undoing.
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In a Tree (with Jim Storie Juniors) 03:50
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In A Tree (MacDonell/Robinson/CStorie/JStorie) My love return return back and be when she's low to the ground she is near me well hello I have found the best of place of places to be I will dwell in the roots of this tree ooh in a tree My love work takes me it takes me far from here I go and seek places of which I'm barely aware when I go make a door the handle it's of grey mist oh I dwell in the hopes she'll appear and I'll be kissed ooh in a tree They're all fine days I count sticks watch the movement of blades comment on the rain pill at weeds then go home again when I go to dissolve then go home again to the all contemplate and drink deep to untangle these branches all ooh in a tree These days I make a hat and wear it on out make ponderous steps and still run about oh you know there's a gnome in a tree by how it arranges the mists of the clear untangled rays ooh in a tree
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You Eat What You Are 03:53
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You Eat What You Are (MacDonell/Robinson/Segui/CStorie) You are what you eat you eat what you are you consume what you need and then you consume more my sister-in-law's got colitis she is what she eats my sister-in-law's got colitis she is what she eats You reap what you sow send out what comes back see those kids pushing that old man around holding skateboards well they're gonna get theirs those kids are gonna get colitis cos karma's a bitch so those kids are gonna get colitis My dog ran away ran to the highway and pretended he died and every time someone decided to tried to pull their car over and pick that dog up off the road he'd jump up and run away did in 28 cars that day one after another crashing up and down the length of Hamilton Mountain my dog ran away but he'll get his my dog he's gonna get colitis yeah cos my dog he misbehaved I'm thinking up thoughts about my dog and they're spiteful and he sends them out back at me just to spite us yeah my dog's gonna get colitis karma's a bitch that way My boss lied to me said business as usual Sonny, Sonny Jim Storie Junior, my boss lied to me he said he said we're finding ourselves a lot of money yeah we're making a lot of money now in our company we're making money in our company Tell you what my boss is gonna get he's gonna get colitis cos he paid off the accountants and they loast a bunch of integers and misplaced a bunch of decimals and then they took the spreadsheets and they sent them out and jiggled them around and pretended they had a lot more money but the bottom line was my boss is gonna get colitis yeah
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Seaweed Sea 04:58
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Seaweed Sea (MacDonell/Robinson/Segui/CStorie) What a great way to cap off my bender I came up on to a police car and now a sign was out on the window that said break and enter and so break and enter I did and I got behind the wheel of that fine Ford Lincoln police car and I figured out how to turn on the lights and I turned the engine on real easy like and I took it out on the road in northern Alabama during a tornado Out on the seaweed sea footprints of jellyfish I can walk on water out over the seaweed sea it's red sargasso the seaweed sea it's my home No need to argue the pleasure is mine hope has disarmed you and this hype will subside we're not here to charm you or to refocus you no one could disarm you when you're alone no one can disarm you from what you think
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What's it Going to Take to Get This Fight Started? 06:01
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What's It Going To Take To Get This Fight Started? (MacDonell/Robinson/CStorie/JStorie) Ride out of town on the horse you rode in on you don't want to end you life at the end of a shovel oh no you don't need to ride out of here hold on to your convictions yeah the man may own you but you still get to shoose who you serve Hamlets to villages cities to towns ride on in and out of town hamlets to villages signals to cities ride on in ride on back out of it Ride out of town on the horse you rode in on ride out of town in the horse you rode in on ride out of town in the horse you rode in on and Ask yourself what's it going to take to get this fight started? Ask yourself what's it going to take to get this fight started? Hamlets to villages cities to towns riding in and out of town hamlets to villges and cities to steeples ride on in and ride on back out of it Ride out of town in the horse you rode in on it won't take very long before you ride out of town on the horse you rode in on Ask yourself what's it gonna take to get this fight started Ask yourself what's it gonna take to get this fight started you got to ask youself soldier is this the hill that you want to die on you've got to ask yourself soldier is this the hill that you want to die on Hamlets to villages and cities to towns I'm riding in and out of town hamlets to villages and cities to steeples ooh! Ride out of town in the horse you rode in on ride out of town in the horse you rode in on ride out of town in the horse you rode in on ride out of town in the horse you rode in on Hamlets to villages cities to towns ride on in and out of town hamlets to villages cities to steeples ride on in and ride on back out of it Ride out of town in the horse you rode in on it won't take very long before you ride out of town on the horse you rode in on it's the creature on earth who shares your convictions it's the only creature on earth who shares your convictions
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Benny Mudd (with Jim Storie Juniors) (free) 05:43
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Benny Mudd (MacDonell/Robinson/CStorie/JStorie) I've lived around this liquor store for twenty-five years and let me tell you it ain't moved me baby People seem to like the themes if not the songs I sing and well I fill my hat there's nothing wrong with that Well now I've got a soundtrack and a t-shirt and that kid at the city desk thinks I should run for mayor ah well that attunes me baby might just move me baby well it moves me baby well I gotta run Oh I wouldn't change a thing or set you stray I'd see to it the things that people need will get done with right I've seen the light vote for Benny Mudd and I just might move you baby well vote it up Beloved liquor store busker takes a run at the chair well there's a ring in there somewhere to move me baby like that guy with the flute or when the joker's high well there's just something to it baby it's gone to my head like your thirst for liquor in that bag you're holding there well we all got our demons I guess well bless me baby well that attunes me baby well running for the chair might just move me baby I'll give it to you square Oh I wouldn't change a thing or set you stray - benny mudd! I'd see to it the things that people need - benny mudd! will get done with right I've seen the light vote for Benny Mudd and I just might move you baby well vote it up Ahead of me a heap of soil treasures lie inside buried by time and neglect but treasure lies there yet so let us stop asking what it is and let us dig to see to shine a light unshone upon the ripples in the trees reflected upon the lake and let us pause for thought upon each new beginning and it moves me baby well wait before you leap and take stock of those around you and me who have also emerged from the same deep muck and each sheet of dust and each new layer of soil is lit from within by the treasures unearthed within well that attunes me baby well it moves me baby now put em out there Oh I wouldn't change a thing or set you stray I'd see to it the things that people need will get done with right I've seen the light vote for Benny Mudd and I just might move you baby well I'm gonna run It's in the mountains it's lit so if that's all the ends you need from it the measure of the mountain and the treasure you espouse well that's fine with you but me I'm happy to just keep here digging baby well that attunes me baby Well it moves me baby well it moves you baby well it moves you baby well it moves me baby Well I wouldn't change a thing or set you stray I'd see to it the things that people need well they move me baby So take pleasure in your treasure if that's all the ends you need but as for me I'm happy just to keep on busking as an unofficial liquor store employee buy my soundtrack baby ooh vote for Benny Mudd it moves me baby ooh vote it up
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Jim Storie Juniors with Doc Pickles (live) - Pile-on (live) (free) 03:59
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Jim Storie Juniors with Doc Pickles (live) - Goods and Services (live) (free) 02:19
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Jim Storie Juniors with Doc Pickles (live) - Don't Take my Shortwave Away (live) (free) 02:20
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Jim Storie Juniors with Doc Pickles (live) - Great Slave Lake (live) (free) 04:04
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Doc Pickles joins up with 122 Greige and Michael Segui and on some tracks the actual Jim Storie to create The Jim Storie Juniors. Doc Pickles is cofounder and emcee of Wavelength Music & Arts Projects.

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released September 28, 2010

Jim Storie Juniors
What's It Going To Take To Get This Fight Started?

1 Bird Dog
2 Stone In My Shoe
3 If Love Is All I Get
4 Dance Monkey Dance
5 I Won't Write
6 Girl On The Green
7 Lately Not Now
8 Watching The Pelicans Fly
9 Stars Everlasting
10 Juice
11 Undoing
12 In A Tree
13 Seaweed Sea
14 You Eat What You Are
15 What's It Going To Take To Get This Fight Started?
16 Benny Mudd

JSJ's are:
Duncan MacDonell - vocals, keys, bass on #2
Matt Robinson - greige guitar, vocals
Mike Segui - blue guitar
Chad Storie - bass, vocals, drums
Jim Storie - drums

Music by Jim Storie Juniors
Lyrics by Duncan MacDonell (with lyrics from Catullus on #4, Ralph Waldo Emerson on #9)
Produced by Matt Robinson

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