Cold Cold Ground

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“Cold Cold Ground”
Written By Clark Andrew Libbey
Copyright 2023
Performed by The High Desert Playboys
ASCAP WORK ID 922327111

Instrumentation:
Guitar/Washboard/Vocals Clark Andrew Libbey
Accordion/Keys/Vocals Ryan Goodhue
Drums/Percussion/Vocals Mikey Hale
Violin/Vocals Kristen Rad
Vocals Jackie Chacon
Trombone Travis Rourk

“Cold Cold Ground '' is a story born of old black and white Twilight Zone episodes, where fiction toys with the ordinary and the mundane. In this episode, our wayward character finds himself at a backyard party in New Orleans sharing drinks and gumbo with friends who had died in years past. Slowly realizing they are accompanying the Grim Reaper, and are there to help ease his passing, he pleads for a reprieve for as long as there’s whiskey and gumbo to go around. But everyone knows the cold, cold ground always wins in the end…

Written by Clark Andrew Libbey
Performed by The High Desert Playboys
Mixed and Mastered by Ken Riley of Rio Grande Studios
Produced by Ken Riley and Clark Andrew Libbey
Assistant production by Mikey Hale and Kristen Rad
Video by Subharmonic City Productions
Released by Slow Start Records 2023

www.slowstartrecords.com
www.highdesertplayboys.com
www.clarkandrewlibbey.com

lyrics

Ain't gonna go
Ain't gonna go
Ain't gonna go in the cold cold ground
We still got whiskey We still got gumbo
Ain't gonna go in the cold cold ground

Let's start the party, down on ravine
saddest bunch of boys I ever seen
Get your buttons up all tight
Let them come we'll rue the night
one more time for everyone we see

There's hippie Jenny, golden hair
Dancing like she really doesn’t care
I swear that girl just can’t bring rain,
Carry shame or find the blame
None of us will ever be the same

Ain't gonna go
Ain't gonna go
Ain't gonna go in the cold cold ground
We still got whiskey We still got gumbo
Ain't gonna go in the cold cold ground

Let me hear that fiddle, from Mr. Michael
Holdin down the demons we brought round
He brought his sunshine he brought his moonshine
Let's celebrate while we’re above the ground

Then brother Daniel, always at home
tales that wind you up around his thumbs
He'll roll a number and roll a yarn
Then sit right down and play his old guitar

Ain't gonna go
Ain't gonna go
Ain't gonna go in the cold cold ground
We still got whiskey We still got gumbo
Ain't gonna go in the cold cold ground

Then when drums come in from the famous Mr. bones,
stepping down the alley by our home
it's time we go, we've always known
I don't think I wanna let this go

Ain’t gonna go
Ain’t gonna go
Ain’t gonna go in the cold cold ground
Don't stop the party
Don’t slow down
Ain't gonna be no parties down below

We gotta go
We gotta go
We gotta go in the cold cold ground
I ain’t got no whiskey, I ain’t got no gumbo
We gotta go in the cold cold ground

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from Cold Cold Ground, released December 1, 2023

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The High Desert Playboys Albuquerque, New Mexico

“Ticker Tape Parade”, the second album from The High Desert Playboys is available February 11th, 2022 on Slow Start Records!

Albuquerque’s premier original americana/cajun/bluegrass outfit spent over a year producing their most ambitious album yet.
PRE-ORDERS start January 14th at:
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