The Cuckoo (traditional)

from Lost Behind the Ranges by Jason Tyler Burton

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You're my devil, You're my Christ

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I’m going to build me a log cabin up in the mountains so high, So I can see my baby when she goes walking by, Oh the cuckoo she’s a pretty bird she warbles as she flies, But she never hollers cuckoo till the first day of July. Oh she left me in old KY she came back in North Carolina, Well I bet you twenty dollars boy she’s gone for good this time. Oh jack daniels you’re my devil and you’re my Christ, well you took away my baby then you help me to sleep at night, That cuckoo she’s a pretty bird she warbles as she flies, She never hollers cuckoo till the first day of July, Jack of diamonds know you of old, You’ve robbed my poor pockets of their silver and gold, So give me beefsteak when I’m hungry, Give me whiskey when I’m dry, Twenty dollars when I’m hard up, Oh religion when I die. That cuckoo she’s a pretty bird she warbles as she flies, She never hollers cuckoo, and she won’t tell you no lies.

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from Lost Behind the Ranges, released April 21, 2017

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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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