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Fist Full of Dollars

from Better Son by Tom Rhodes

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Tom Rhodes - Vocals, Guitars
Mike McGreevy - Drums, Vocals
Marcelo Nascimento - Bass, Vocals
Sean Lynch - Vocals

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Well I was begging for forgiveness in the galley of a ship
out on the great Atlantic Ocean.
I'd left my mother's house off the southern tip of Baltimore
where I was looking for a dream and a way.
I had given up the job of being all my brothers keepers
and I'd left them to the streets to learn their own life lessons
but now here we are, all drowning under life and under water
with our hands raised to the heavens with a fist full of dollars
and I said

Momma Momma, I'm sorry that I left you on your own.

Well that storm it raged and it tossed around the little ketch that I had boarded
You see the mast was badly broken and we were taking water
and the waves they were relentless just like how I had held onto my pride.
Right then and there I realized the err I had commited
I'd gone and left my mom and family at a time when I was needed.
And I'd done done grown to be a man, but I'd been acting like a child
set loose into a market with a fist full of dollars.
and I said

Momma Momma, I'm sorry that I left you on your own.

Well I looked up to the heavens and I swore that if I did survive it
I would just turn back to that island from which I had departed
I'd crawl up to my mothers house and I'd beg her won't you let me lend a hand.
Right then the seas laid down, the sun came out, and skies they parted
and I realized once again that I might see my mom and brothers
I could be the man they needed to keep our heads above these waters
and I'd show up every Sunday with a fist full of dollars
and I said

Momma Momma, I'm sorry that I left you on your own.

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from Better Son, track released January 1, 2011

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