Name: Ol' 69
Duration: P00H04M51S
Description: Standard tuning. The title is lifted from Tom Waits' song "Ol '55" but has nothing to do with an automobile, and is more about the end of the idealism of the sixties and looking back having been born in 1969. Written in Seattle in the summer of 1996.

Ol' 69

from Val Holler Band - EP by Val Holler

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Standard tuning. The title is lifted from Tom Waits' song "Ol '55" but has nothing to do with an automobile, and is more about the end of the idealism of the sixties and looking back having been born in 1969. Written in Seattle in the summer of 1996.

lyrics

"Ol '69"
3/4 time
©Tathata Music (ASCAP) • All rights reserved.

VERSE
I like my salvation
kind of easy, kind of cool.
My dancing temptation waltzes matilda out by the pool.
Them crazy old magpies just dont understand my quiet delight.
They take so much pleasure in razzing each other, come day and
come night.

CHORUS
THE WINDING STAIRCASE UP THE STONY TOWER -
A FLOWER - POWER.

VERSE
I sit around thinking bout all the kings horses and all the kings
whores.
I'm just a salesman peddling dustpans and such door-to-door.
My clock is ticking, her clock is stopped - Oh, what a mess.
I'd wind her back up, but you know, she wont let me take off her
dress.

CHORUS

BRIDGE
(back to 3/4)

VERSE
The weathervanes in my body, well, they never lie -
Just pushing, and pushing, and pushing blood back to my heart
in the sky.

CHORUS

BRIDGE

VERSE
I like my salvation kind of easy, kind of cool.

OUTRO

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from Val Holler Band - EP, released September 2, 1997

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Val Holler Nashville, Tennessee

Val Holler is a singer-songwriter who has performed and released music mainly from the mid-1990s to mid-2000s, while based primarily in New York City, Los Angeles and Berlin, Germany.

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23 E. 4th St., 3rd Fl
New York, NY 10003
tel: (+1) 646-504-4958
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