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Detroit City Man EP featuring Steve Freund

from A Winning Hand by The Lucky Losers

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The Lucky Losers present Detroit City Man featuring Steve Freund.

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Detroit City Man
© 08/13/2014
Cathy Lemons, Take No Prisoners/BMI

Well he was from Detroit City
I met him through a friend a mine
He moved in with the girl next door
She wasn’t no friend a mine
She had red hair
And her papa used to sleep on the couch
He had a thang with alcohol
I could hear him screen at night

He was from Detroit City
He was long and lean
He was a junk man, lord
Ah that’s when I liked ‘em mean
MMM, MMM

Ya he wanted me bad
I could hear him talk through the walls
She used to say to him
The red haired girl
I know she don’t pay no bills
Why do you like that woman next door
She ain’t got no money
I thought you said she’d pay your bills
Ah something feels funny

MMM
MMM, MMM

I let him move in my place
We used to have a real good time
We used to shake the walls down
Sometime I could hear Red cryin
I can still hear her in my head
Oh lord the things she said

She said that girl don’t pay no bills
She ain’t even got a stone dime
Ah you left here boy
You left me cryin

Woh lord he was from Detroit
He had a junk habit baby
He was real man
And back then we sho didn’t have many

He had blonde hair blue yes
And he was long and lean
And everything he said to me
I swear by god he didn’t mean

He used to meet me at the bus stop
When I’d get home from my bad job
He used to carry me through the door
Lay me on the floor

MMMM, MMMM, MMMM, MMM

He used to say we would make it
If it wasn’t for the junk man lord
Got to where we couldn’t fake it
I couldn’t take no more
He didn’t pay no bills
Stole everything around

I can hear the words from Red
Lord she said he gonna take you down

He was from Detroit City
He was from Detroit City
Lord he had everybody around
Eatin from his hand

In a small town down south (break down)
MMM
Had everybody down


He stole my TV (Pick back up)
He stole my refrigerator
He stole everything he could get his hands on
That’s when I broke his glass reindeer

All the glass was on the floor
Saw the tears in his eyes
I said “Pick up your life and get out”
I think the man was cryin

He was from Detroit city
Came down to a small town
He had us all goin crazy
Lahd, Big city man

Talk:
“He was from Detroit”
Smooth talker
Smoooooth talker
Ya I remember him
He’s dead now.

credits

from A Winning Hand, track released September 16, 2016
Cathy Lemons - Vocals
Steve Freund: Guitar
Phil Berkowitz - Harmonica
Steve Evans - Bass
Robi Bean - Drums

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Winners of 5 Independent Blues Awards in 2021 for "Godless Land". Blues, soul, old school retro, genre bending sonic films with political and social subject matter as well as great male female lead singing with harmony.

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