Name: Sal
Duration: P00H05M47S
Description: tuning: Drop D (capo I on record). This is a meditation on psychedelics and entheogens like Saliva Divinorum which the song is named after, and their use by shamans to interact with the Earth (Mother Gaia). Written in late 1996 in New York City, while living on Ave. B between 13th and 14th Streets.

Sal

from Val Holler Band - EP by Val Holler

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tuning: Drop D (capo I on record). This is a meditation on psychedelics and entheogens like Saliva Divinorum which the song is named after, and their use by shamans to interact with the Earth (Mother Gaia). Written in late 1996 in New York City, while living on Ave. B between 13th and 14th Streets.

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"Sal"
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INTRO

VERSE
Just a little guy with a mother of a plan
Gonna take a little bit of forest and turn it into sand.
Like paper for the poorest, woe-begotten and down-trodden,
Broken glass - pain in the ass, sucker-punch humanity, clipping coupons for love.

CHORUS
I FEEL THE TEAR OF A GIANT CRY
AS I'M STANDING ON HER TOE,
AND SHE'S WALKING, WALKING REAL SLOW.

VERSE
Sal Divinorum don't come easy on the street.
When you're sick and tired of following - Long for silence in your sleep.
Like a diamond man dollering up a brothel doll, Moth-eaten ball,
silk sash, private stash, blindfold, cakewalk, don't talk - This one here's two for one.

CHORUS "AND SHE'S WALKING" into BRIDGE

BRIDGE
My gentle giant
My giant lady.

SOLO=1/2 INTRO

VERSE
Like paper in the forest, Like a diamond...

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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