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The Longer (Live)

from Live in Orlando by Todd Burge

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Grow Up (june 27 2011)
Taken from a write up about a woman who buried her husband in her flower garden.
http://home.suddenlink.net/news/read.php?ps=1011&rip_id=%3CD9O437Q00%40news.ap.org%3E&_LT=HOME_LARSDCCLM_UNEWS
Raleigh woman's garden became her husband's grave
By RENEE ELDER Associated Press The Associated Press
Monday, June 27, 2011 8:05 AM EDT

For 35 years we were married me and he
But he never seemed to need to add to his family tree
We traveled all around like two wide eyed hippies
But I had to let go of always thinking so retro … and say

Grow up, sprout out of the ground
Let your colors shine like the springtime
As the sunshine dances on my weathered brow
All you’ve got to do for now
Is grow up

Is it wrong for a woman to want a better life?
With a man who’s kept at bay by his ways so childlike?
He could bring home the bacon ‘stead of actin’ like a swine
Put away the pop and have a little sip of wine

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Chorus

Now I’m handy with a shovel and I’m handy with a spade
And when he wasn’t lookin’ I was handy with a blade
Now he’s in my garden, pushin’ up my daisy
And some may think I’m crazy
But now my love must do what I say
As I say

Chorus

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from Live in Orlando, released January 10, 2016
Todd Burge Vocals and Guitar

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If it’s been discovered by man, West Virginia’s Todd Burge has written about it. A born ponderer and observer of life, each of his songs tells a story. Whether drawn from personal experience or a tale of poetically woven fiction, you’ll live every second of it through his songs. ... more

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