Name: Saratoga
Duration: P00H03M32S
Description: Saratoga Spring New York - you can watch those ponies run and loose yourself in the game. Some are rolling high for a while but it doesn't last. The slide is an antique Koa wood Weissenborn style Hawaiian guitar that I found up in my wife's family's attic.

Saratoga

from Swampy by Wilson Abbott

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Saratoga Spring New York - you can watch those ponies run and loose yourself in the game. Some are rolling high for a while but it doesn't last. The slide is an antique Koa wood Weissenborn style Hawaiian guitar that I found up in my wife's family's attic.

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Up in Saratoga where you can watch those ponies run
There’s an aging troubadour out busking in the sun
But racing season’s over and winter’s coming on
No one’s on the street tonight but he’s still singing his song

It’s a high and lonesome tenor with a clumsy finger style
You can tell from his old guitar he’s been doing this a while
Down the street the kids play bluegrass they’re racking in the cash
He’ll be lucky for a buck an hour from people walking past

Gotta say that he’s not that good but he sings with his heart and soul
About the loves that he has lost and never going home
The bluegrass kids have given up they caught the bus back home
He’s still singing to the night about how he’s got to roam

I pass him twice so I can drop two dollars in his case
Think about my life, thank God, thank God I’m not in his place
But I don’t buy his CD figure it’s not worth the price
Go into a bookstore, twenty dollars for Keith Richards “Life”

Up in Saratoga, watch that pony run
Up in Saratoga

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from Swampy, released March 9, 2022
Wilson Abbott: Vocal, Acoustic Guitar, Weissenborn Style Hawaiian Guitar & Bass

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Wilson Abbott Vashon, Washington

Swampy Dobro, Electric lap steel & Weissenborn style Hawaiian acoustic slide guitar. Original songs from a long life.

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