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American Trip

by Jared Rodgers Music

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1.
it’s the way that you treat me baby whoa-ho! I can tell that somethin’s up I thought that you’d meet me darlin whoa-ho! who’d a ever thought you could play so tough? but whoa-ho-ho! your lovin someone else now ain’t ya baby? whoa-ho-ho! what am I supposed to do? I thought that you loved me darlin whoa-ho! I guess there’s just some things I can’t explain but just one more thing can ya tell me whoa-ho! why you been actin so goddamn strange? whoa-ho-ho! you’re lovin someone else now ain’t ya baby? whoa-ho-ho! what am I supposed to do? whoa-ho-ho! you’re messin with some other slip around town whoa-ho-ho! you’re givin me the blues well I don’t know why I love you the way I do I guess you’re always on my mind but I just don’t understand the way you do actin like everything is fine you better stop foolin around on me now baby! its the way that you treat me baby whoa-ho! I guess there’s just some things I can’t explain but I ain’t gonna lie to ya honey whoa-ho! I done gone and made some different plans and whoa-ho-ho! I’m lovin someone else you know it baby whoa-ho-ho! what am I supposed to do? whoa-ho-ho! I got me another slip around town and whoa-ho-ho! well she don’t care a thing about you no she don’t care a thing about you
2.
ol’ sister moon can you tell why the seasons fade from dawn till after cos that northern wind’s been blowin by it makes me feel like I’m alone well I done had some whiskeys by the by while I was sittin by the fire the first winter’s snow’s been fallin down and I’ve gone wanderin by your light and somewhere way up high up on the mountain there’s a grey wolf that I hear sometimes he cries out in the night y’know he’s a friend of mine well ol’ sister moon can you tell why I have these dreams when I am sleepin I dream the sun is settin down beyond the mountains to the sea and in my dream my spirit’s like an eagle racin hard before the darkness as it falls across the sky I look into your eyes but there’s no answer you just shine on with your silver light but you don’t make no sound and sister you ain’t tellin lies ol’ sister moon can you tell why the seasons fade from dawn till after cos that northern wind keeps blowin by and I don’t feel like bein alone I think I’ll wander high up on the mountains there’s a grey wolf that I hear sometimes he’s cryin out in the night y’know he’s a friend of mine he’s always been a friend of mine
3.
bustin out a blue ridge west virginia leavin on the outbound midnight train headed off to northern california by ways of portland maine I guess that you got hung up down in georgia broke down by the blanchefort copper mines I can’t stop thinkin bout those days in memphis lord did we have a time lord did we have a time and I got one more destination I got one more on down the line I feel like some days things’ll get better and baby I’m feelin fine I swear I’m feelin fine I sold my horse in asheville carolina I heard you set from ohio yesterdays I called you up from greenville indiana but you’re sayin there ain’t no ways you’re sayin there ain’t no ways and there’s always one more complication there’s always one more ol’ ball and chain but I swear that I ain’t never seen nothin better than you dancin in the rain and I got one more destination yeah I got one more on down the line I can’t see no ways things’ll get better but baby I’m feelin fine I swear I’m feelin fine well I caught my friends in boulder colorado but you was back in nashville tennessee I told you I would meet you down in austin but it wasn’t meant to be no it wasn’t meant to be and there’s always one more road you’re takin there’s always one more on down the line I feel like some day we’ll get it together but babe it’s gonna take some time yeah it’s gonna take some time and there’s always one more ol’ complication there’s always one more ol’ ball and chain but I swear that I ain’t never seen nothin better than you dancin in the rain you dancin in the rain now I heard that you was camped out by the ocean just a few miles south a half moon bay I wonder if we’re ever gonna make it maybe down the road some day maybe down the road some day and there’s always one more road we’re takin there’s always one more on down the line I feel like some day we’ll get it together but babe it’s gonna take some time yeah it’s gonna take some time and there’s always one more complication there’s always one more ol’ ball and chain but I swear that I ain’t never seen nothin better than you dancin in the rain and I got one more destination honey I got one more on down the line I feel like some days things’ll get better and baby I’m feelin fine I swear I’m feelin fine I swear I’m feelin fine I swear I’m feelin fine
4.
Oh, Carolina 04:46
5.
I am a simple man my name is Amos Rose and lord I’ll tell ya no lies and only what I know beneath the willow trees up by the old mill stream there lies a simple stone that’s never borne a name she had an angel’s soul a girl named eva mae with eyes as bright as pearls as pretty as the day and he was strong and true her love for wilfred see they’d pass the summer days beneath the willow trees and talk of the dreams of life to come and sleep beneath the stars but oh when the days of life are gone the dream is who we are and I was just a boy the spring when they were wed a child within her deep in love the life they led but too soon by heavy cares they say he fell apart and found him by his own hand shot dead through the heart with all those dreams of life to come he sleeps beneath the stars and oh when the days of life are gone the dream is who we are the devil stole her life and left her spirit broke within the shadows lost they say she never spoke and one winter’s day beneath cold water she was found she’d took her own life in the mill pond where she drowned with all those dreams of life to come she sleeps beneath the stars and oh when the days of life are gone the dream is who we are I am a simple man my name is Amos Rose and lord I’ll tell ya no lies and only what I know beneath the willow trees up by the old mill stream there lies a simple stone that’s never borne a name there lies a simple stone that’s never borne a name there lies a simple stone that’s never borne a name
6.
pass the whiskey round gimme one more for the road my deal’s been goin down and I got nowhere left to go last night I crashed the blinds and ol’ bad luck left me a wreck I hit fifth street one more time and hot damn I’d crippled up the deck the road gang called I flipped my cards and I reached out for the stakes but then some railbird said son you don’t understand you’ll never live to burn that stash cos you done won it with the Devil’s Hand… now I got no place to run sure ain’t got no place to hide I got a bullet in my gun enough to take me one more ride yeah the devil’s on my trail and I seen black cats cross my path I’m on a one way trip to hell and soon I’ll take my final breath well you can make your money playin cards and take whiskey as your friend but sometimes a gambler’s life ain’t worth a damn and no one lives to tell that tale who’s ever gone and drawn the Devil’s Hand… drawn the Devil’s Hand…
7.
Shotgun Jim 05:00
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Mind Bomb! 05:35
9.
well I got a little lightning babe I got a little thunder too well I got a little lightning babe I got a little thunder too you gonna come on along with me now we gonna see what we can do well I got a little lightning babe burn a hole right through your hand well I got a little lightning babe burn a hole right through your hand yeah I got a little lightning babe maybe you don’t understand well I got a little thunder babe gonna shake and rattle up your bones yeah I got a little thunder babe gonna shake and rattle up your bones well I got a little thunder babe catch you makin rock and roll you gotta jump on in you gotta jump on in you gotta jump on in you gotta jump on in you gotta jump on in you gotta jump on in you gotta jump on in you gotta jump on in cos I got a little lightning babe I got a little thunder too yeah I got a little lightning babe I got a little thunder too you gonna come on along with me now we gonna see what we can do you gotta jump on in you gotta jump on in you gotta jump on in you gotta jump on in you gotta jump on in you gotta jump on in you gotta jump on in you gotta jump on in well I got a little lightning babe I got a little thunder too well I got a little lightning babe I got a llittle thunder too you gonna come on along with me now we gonna see what we can do
10.
She Got Me 04:47
well I love to jump my baby for a ride y’know we roll down the bends and every little time she’s runnin sweet y’know she got me again well last night I was rockin and my honey she was shakin when I woke up in the mornin lord you know my bones were breakin and every little time she’s runnin sweet y’know she got me again man she jammed those high gears like a star crashed down for highballs at the bar I guess she got me again I gotta feel that engine hummin through those sticks I gotta go for a ride well I’m dreamin ‘bout those pistons when I’m sleepin yeah there’s nowhere to hide well I had to fall in love with a brown eyed farmer’s daughter she rocked me on the mountain then she drowned me in the water oh man I’m sure I’ve gone too far I woke up this mornin with a scar I guess she got me again I guess she got me again I guess I’ll get by with some help from my friends and can I get high y’know I guess it depends y’know I guess it depends yeah I guess I’ll get by with some help from my friends from my friends and can I get high y’know I guess it depends y’know I guess it depends well I love to jump my baby for a ride y’know we roll down the bends and every little time she’s runnin sweet y’know she got me again well don’t ever fall in love with a brown eyed farmer’s daughter she’ll rock you on the mountain then she’ll drown you in the water oh man I’m sure I’ve gone too far I woke up this mornin with a scar I guess she got me again I guess she got me again I guess she got me again I guess she got me again I guess she got me again
11.
Mountainside 04:24
12.
The Way Back 06:26
and august found me in my hope my old chevy broke and my face a joke without a word she spoke the words I longed to hear on fragile wings flew near the shadows disappeared and all my life ran clear and the moonlight in her eyes was like the silence in my soul between the darkness and the light I’m gonna find my way back home november found me in my wake a dead man with no stakes it was more than I could take I felt the axles break a price too hard to pay I had no tune to play and nothing left to say as I watched her fly away and the moonlight in her eyes was like the silence in my soul between the darkness and the light I’m gonna find my way back home and little wing can’t hardly tell of the heartbreak when she fell she figured it was just as well I guess it must’ve hurt like hell and now the wind sings through the trees and all I have is dreams a ghost down on my knees beggin baby please but now my little bird is free and the moonlight in her eyes is like the silence in my soul between the darkness and the light I’m gonna find my way back home and the moonlight in her eyes was like the silence in my soul between the darkness and the light I’m gonna find my way back home
13.
oh my sweet darlin come closer to me it’s time to tell of the things that will be out of the window the sun’s settin down I see the light but I can’t hear the sound well sit down beside me take hold of my hand there’s so many things that we don’t understand there’s so much we’re given yet nothin we take when closin our eyes and yet never to wake and oh love how the days passed us by so many years in the blink of an eye listen my love and I’ll tell you what’s true all of my life it was only for you all of my life it was only for you and oh love there’s so much left to see all of your dreams how I want them to be I see the tears when I look in your eyes promise me love that we won’t say goodbye promise me love that we won’t say goodbye so stay with me darlin a little bit more there’s no turnin back when you walk through the door give me a smile love now please don’t be sad weren’t we blessed with the time that we had well kiss me my love for the time’s drawin near whisper the words that I’m longin to hear don’t be afraid love this is not the end somehow I know I will see you again somehow I know I will see you again somehow I know I will see you again
14.
Remember 04:53
Kirsten it’s such a long road and there’s just so many more miles to go there’s signs all up on the highway but what they’re sayin I just don’t know I been three days out of smoke hole canyon and I just seen the first winter’s snow lord knows that I’ve been tryin tryin to find my—my way back home and sometimes it seems like I’ve gone too far and I don’t know where I am at all but when I don’t know which way to turn I just take the road that I remember the road that I remember darlin deep within the old mines lord you know I done paid some dues the only thing that kept me goin was knowin I’d find my way on back to you and sometimes it seems like it’s all too hard and I don’t know where I am at all but when I don’t know which way to choose I just take the road that I remember the road that I remember well my memory is like a dream now and all my sorrows unbroken chains it’s strange how everything seems different when I know it’s always been the same Kirsten I pray that you’ll be waitin when I finally come round the bend I pray that somehow I’ll remember so I can find my true love once again and sometimes it seems like I’ve gone too far and I don’t know where I am at all but when I don’t know which way to turn the love within my heart is like a fire that burns so when I don’t know which way to choose I just take the road that I remember the road that I remember
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Somehow 07:47
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The 16 songs on "American Trip" are the final musical legacy of Jared K. Rodgers. Jared was a songwriter, musician, philosopher, troublemaker & intrepid explorer of sonic, psychic and geographic terrain. These songs represent his belief in improvisation as a way of making art and life, his love of psychedelic music and his vision of the American Trip.

After more than a decade playing bass in San Francisco, Jared left the music business to become a veterinarian. He never stopped making music though, and in 2015, facing terminal cancer, he headed into the studio to record 17 songs that he had been working on. These are those songs. Jared passed away on January 9, 2017.

All proceeds from the sales of this music will be donated to the ASPCA in Jared's name.

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released January 9, 2018

Music & Lyrics by Jared Rodgers

Produced by Jared Rodgers
Engineered by Greg Heimbecker, Evan Reeves and Jared Rodgers
Recorded at the UNC Recording Studio in Greeley, CO and UI Sound Studios in Boulder, CO
Mixed by Patrick Tracy and Evan Reeves
Mastered by David Glasser at Airshow Mastering
 
Jared Rodgers – vocals, guitars, bass
David Cohen – piano, organ, pump organ
Greg Schochet – guitars, mandolin
Damon Smith – drums
Darren Thompson- drums

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Jared Rodgers Music Carmel By The Sea, California

Jared Rodgers was a songwriter, musician, philosopher & intrepid explorer. After more than a decade playing bass in San Francisco, he left the music business to become a veterinarian. He never stopped making music though, and in 2015, facing terminal cancer, he headed into the studio to record 17 songs that he had been working on. These are those songs. Jared passed away on January 9, 2017. ... more

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