Name: A Garden Grows
Duration: P00H05M14S
Description: This is a song about trying to make it in the city, and how often that doesn't work. And also a song about defending what you love.

A Garden Grows

from Headwaters by Jason Tyler Burton

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This is a song about trying to make it in the city, and how often that doesn't work. And also a song about defending what you love.

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He was born to be among the movers and the shakers
But all of them got shook up and now they’re gone
They are hiding in the bunkers beneath the city
Waiting out the sirens and the bombs

Here come this little girl from east Kentucky With nothing but her banjo and her pride
She’s got an education you can’t pay for
And the kind of hope about a million miles wide

They came here for the promise
They came here to make a stand
And out here beneath the city sky line
They think maybe they’ve found a promised land

They met once at the protest down on wall street
Waving round their painted cardboard signs
She was protesting what they were doing to her mountains
He just wanted a bigger slice of pie

They came here for the promise
They came here to make a stand
And out here beneath the city sky line
They started dreaming of a different promised land
Where a garden grows

Well she saved her nickels and played her banjo
He went back in debt to get his MBA
And as she felt the hope shrinking around her
She started dreaming about how to get away

They came here for the promise
They came then to understand
That out here in the wilderness of the city
Aint no place to call a promised land

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from Headwaters, released July 8, 2014
JTB - Guitar, Vocals, Banjo
Ryan Tilby - Bass
Steve Lemmon - Drums
Dave Tate - Electric Guitar, Piano
Katy Taylor - Backing vocals

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Jason Tyler Burton Wyoming

Jason Tyler Burton is a recluse from Kentucky who now makes his home in the least populated county in the least populated state. There in Wyoming, at the foot of the Wind River Mountains, he writes songs that wrestle with the struggles of rural peoples. His stories often tell a novel's worth of story in the format of a song, for which he draws comparisons to Jason Isbell and John Prine. ... more

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