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Deep Sleep Blue

from Cripplin' Crutch by Joe Flood

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Words and music by Joe Flood
Jungle Curry Music, BMI
Administered by Bug Music Nashville

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When the wind and tide escape you
There's nothing you can do
On the deep, on the deep
On the deep sleep blue
But put your weary head down
On a weary lullaby
In the deep sleep blue
Of a white night sky

My heart's as heavy as the sands
That the seven seas woo
On the deep, on the deep
On the deep sleep blue
But tonight no sand's been dropped into
These star-woo'd eyes
In the deep sleep blue
Of a white night sky

My heart was once as light as
The seagulls that flew
On the deep, on the deep
On the deep sleep blue
But now my strength has left me
To float away like a sigh
In the deep sleep blue
Of a white night sky

The wave beneath you rising now
Would as soon roll over you
On the deep, on the deep
On the deep sleep blue
And the sidewalk trees
Throw up their arms and wonder why
In the deep sleep blue
Of a white night sky

And space is one big room
With one big circle of a view
On the deep, on the deep
On the deep sleep blue
But I swear sometimes a man can feel
Like he's buried alive
In the deep sleep blue
Of a white night sky

So let the sailors sing their chanteys
In accents bold and true
On the deep, on the deep
On the deep sleep blue
While Spanish tongues like castanets
Are clicking hard and high
In the deep sleep blue
Of a white night sky

When the wind and tide escape you
There's nothing you can do
On the deep, on the deep
On the deep sleep blue
But putyour weary head down
On a weary lullaby
In the deep sleep blue
Of a white night sky
In the deep sleep blue
Of a white night sky
In the deep sleep blue
Of a white night sky

credits

from Cripplin' Crutch, released June 10, 2001
Will Rigby, drums; Bobby MacDougall, bass; Eric Ambel, electric guitar and background vocal; Jim Duffy, wurlitzer; Joe Flood, electric guitar, five-string gutiar, mandolin, vocal

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Joe Flood New Haven, Connecticut

Joe Flood is a songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist who has performed, written, and recorded with many of the great names in American roots music, among them The Band, Blues Traveler, Dr. John, Bottle Rockets, Laura Cantrell, Eric Andersen, Happy and Artie Traum, Jim Weider, Eric "Roscoe" Ambel, Jono Manson, and the list goes on! Please visit www.joefloodmusic.com for more information. ... more

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