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Pigeon Man

from Backroad Carnival by Cory Seznec

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Everyday rain or shine
He puts them pigeons in a line
Everyday rain or shine
Feeding them pigeons just to keep from crying
Chasing down death, chasing down death
Chasing down death with a bag of crumbs
With a bag of crumbs

Feeding them birds right in front of the bums
The avian congregation gathers so patiently
Gathers patiently
For the pallid man to appear between the trees

Don’t count your pigeons ‘fore their hatched
Just put your pigeons in a batch
Don’t count your pigeons ‘fore their hatched
Just put your pigeons in a batch
Might be their magnetism, their ingrained socialism
Don’t count your pigeons before their hatched
Might be their mating coos, or to fatten the squabs for food
Don’t count your pigeons ‘fore their hatched
Just put your pigeons in a batch

Seagulls, seagulls, don’t try to make that afternoon creep
Don’t try to make that creep
Pigeon man will shoo you off with his feet
Some say he’s crazy, some say he’s slow
Some say he’s some sort of god of old
Some sort of god of old

He’ll still be out there when hell freezes over
Don’t count your pigeons ‘fore their hatched
Just put your pigeons in a batch
Don’t count your pigeons ‘fore their hatched
Just put your pigeons in a batch
Might be their magnetism, their ingrained socialism
Don’t count your pigeons before their hatched
Might be their mating coos, or to fatten the squabs for food
Don’t count your pigeons ‘fore their hatched
Just put your pigeons in a batch

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from Backroad Carnival, released November 17, 2017
Musicians:
Cory: slide guitar, claps, vocals
Kenny Allen: backing vocals
Benjamin Body: electric bass
David Chalumeau: harmonica
Geoffroy Dauptain: claps
Patrick Gigon: drums
Jean-Etienne Loose: claps
Daniel Mizrahi: electric guitar

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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.
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