Ballad Of The Thinning Man (Live)

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	1.	Ballad Of The Thinning Man (Live) 03:28	lyrics
	Ballad Of The Thinning Man Cold are the dreams I've been living on I've been hauling my amp down St.Marks Everything has changed Everybody's gone I close down the bar while they close down the parks And I'm feeling like the stadium after the ninth inning Must have been all that hairspray and amphetamine The punks ask for change and I tell them with a grin "Change only comes from within" And I'm thinning Legs wrapped in black cotton I'm a poor man's Johnny Rotten I'm a skinny, peglegged, skeleton man You might find me haunting some fool Hootenanny Saying, "Johnny Cash, yeah, he once played in my band." And if you'll buy me some gin to help wash the sin out of the back of my mind And then toss in a salad and I'll sing you this ballad and just like most of its rhymes I'm thinning I'm thinning like these jokes Like the smoke from a bong Like a song gone on too long I'm thinning like the plot never got hot Everyone knew I was the killer from the beginning And I'm thinning

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released June 21, 2016

Lach - Vocals and Guitar
Engineered by Tom Nishioka
Recorded live at The Fort at Sidewalk Cafe

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Lach Edinburgh, UK

Lach, founder of the Antifolk movement and star of BBC Radio 4's The Lach Chronicles.

‘Beat-punk-unplugged joy!’-The Guardian UK

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‘Incredibly bright, influential, funny, poetic.’-Suzanne Vega

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