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Crab On The Line

from Beauty In The Dirt by Cory Seznec

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Tie that chicken bone to the line, bone on the line
Works the best if its putrefied, stinkin and putrefied
Knot it to the rusted cleat on the dock, cleat on the dock
Toss it in the creek when its a little less hot, just about 5 o'clock

A watched line never get tugged, as the saying goes
So get up to the house and fill your beer mug, as one does
Get back to see the line taut, mumbo crab's a-bitin
Gonna net a bunch before the night's out, soon we'll be a-feastin

Callinectes sapidus! Your savory meat is sacred to all of us!
Oh cold-blooded crab so blue! Steamed red and spiced we relish you!

With buck and riders in romance, let em do their thing!
Throwing bimbos back will only enhance, next summer's spree
In the marshes go hunting for peelers, more bang for your buck
If it's a buckram you're shit out of luck, shit out of luck

By the end of the night let's hope for a bushel, of number 1s
in that steampot hear them rattle, red they become
Don't you nibble on the dead man's fingers, just rip them off
backfin and clawmeat make a nice dinner, with a natty bo wash it off

what you gonna do with the empty shells, return them whence they came
herons, ospreys and sea gulls, will have a field day
in the dog days there ain't nothin better, not one thing
then to laze around in the humid weather, pullin up crabs on a string

Callinectes sapidus! Your savory meat is sacred to all of us!
Oh cold-blooded crab so blue! Steamed red and spiced we relish you!

Poisons lurking deep inside the muddy creek
Nature's bounty dwindling, numbers bleak
Be fruitful and multiply as we are told
While mother earth is torn up and sold

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from Beauty In The Dirt, released April 15, 2014

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Cory Seznec Paris, France

Somewhere between musical wanderer and uncertified ethnomusicologist dwells the artist Cory Seznec and his unique world.
A French-American in Paris, Seznec’s fingerstyle guitar-playing is syncopated, polyrhythmic, cross-pollinated, and idiosyncratic. He also sings, plays old-time banjo, and wades in the deep river of American song.
(above photo by Jason Gardner)
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