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Going Down

by Robert Connely Farr

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1.
Trouble 03:12
trouble, ooh trouble don't let me down we've come so far together this ain't no one horse town and baby, ohh your eyes cool as the morning dew soft on my skin I take you in ohh baby, do what you do come and take my hand and we'll walk into the sun it's just you and me babe what's done is done and I ain't got no room to judge come and take my hand and we'll walk into the sun it's just you and me babe what's done is done
2.
Going Down 03:01
i'm going down to Mississippi gonna take myself a plane yeah i'm going down to Mississippi gonna take myself a plane i'm going home lord i'm going home if i was down in new Orleans i could take that bus or train but if i was in new Orleans i would be too close again too close to home lord too close to home too close to home lord too close to home now when i die you can take me back to where my ma and pa are laying yeah when i die please take me back to where my ma and pa they laying take me home lord take me home i want to go home lord take me home
3.
It's So Easy 03:09
i'm a man, i'm a man please try to understand i don't have any answers i barely have a plan i can hold my head up high on the best of days we talk and we walk and we drive where we live down the backroads and cities and everywhere else where everyone knows your name but no one knows no one and the barrel of the gun is as blinding as the sun it's so easy to not say what i mean to say it's so easy to not say what i mean to say your word is your word and it can't be undone and a firm handshake really makes a man we talk and we walk and we wait and we see that the things we believe don't make no goddamn sense it's so easy to not say what i mean to say it's so easy to not say what i mean to say your eyes tell a story when you look into mine and your hand touches mine it begins to stop the time it's so easy to not say what i mean to say it's so easy to not say what i mean to say
4.
Hurtin' 02:38
swing low daddy come and break my fall you know i'm coming down hard and i'm sick of it all took something the other day i know it's gonna break me when it's time to pay yeah i been thinking long and hard about the hand i been dealt especially one card i got to fix it so it won't be that one card gonna get the best of me yeah one things for certain there's gonna be hurtin' when i come down ohhhh my thinkin's stinkin i never know how my ole brain gets to doin' what my heart won't allow you gotta know someone like me be livin' in the forrest while he's looking for the trees one things for certain there's gonna be hurtin' when i come down swing low daddy come and break my fall you know i'm coming down hard and i'm sick of it all i took something the other day i know it's gonna break me when it's time to pay one things for certain there's gonna be hurtin' when i come down ohh when i come down yeah i'm coming down i'm fucking coming down
5.
i had a dream last night my soul was torn apart i had a dream last night my soul was torn apart yeah these blues is here to stay i should've known right from the start if you're looking for me i'll be down at the bar if you're looking for me i'll be down at the bar it's the only place i know to get back my heart take me down a one way street don't really want to know take me down a one way street don't you know i never want to be left alone i said i never want to be left alone no
6.
Mexico 03:52
i'm thinking 'bout heading south down to Sayulita for the winter i need me some fun, gonna lay in the sun i'll drink pina coladas for dinner i look around the faces in this town there ain't nothing too good that i can't leave for good and my therapist, he ain't paying my rent, he ain't telling me shit that i don't already know ooh mexico ohh oohhh mexico ohh oohhh i'm thinkin' bout i'm gonna take it south ill keep it real down in the barrio i need me some fun i'm gonna find me someone don't ask me no questions if you don't want to know i said it's hot down here i keep it real i found a way out ohhhhh yeah its hot down here i keep it real i found a way out ohhhhhhh mexico ohh oohhh mexico ohh oohhh i said it's hot down here i keep it real i found a way out ohhhhh yeah its hot down here i keep it real i found a way out ohhhhhhh mexico ohh oohhh mexico ohh oohhh mexico ohh oohhh
7.
Dead & Gone 02:43
yeah i ain't gonna hide and i ain't gonna run i'm gonna walk away i'm gonna have some fun i'm gonna leave behind everyone i know i'm gonna find sunshine i'm gonna hit the road i'm gonna get it good while the gettin' good i'm gonna find find my baby and head out to the woods we gonna leave behind a troubled world lord it ain't no trouble when i'm with my girl everyone i know everyone i know yeah i ain't gonna hide and i ain't gonna run i'm gonna walk away i'm gonna have some fun i'm gonna leave behind everyone i know i'm gonna find sunshine i'm gonna hit the road everyone i know everyone i know everyone i know everyone i know they dead and gone lord they're dead and gone everyone i know everyone i know they're dead and gone
8.
Country Boy 03:44
i thought everyone was trying to hold me down i get around ain't much changed since i hit the road and i left for good years ago yeah the Dirty South still in my veins some things change some remain the same i'm just a country boy that strayed too far from home from home from home if i could i would try to take back all i can't it's all the same it's been a damn good and long and winding road yeah the Dirty South still in my veins some things change some remain the same i'm just a country boy that strayed too far from home from home from home i'm just a country boy that strayed too far from home i'm just a country boy that strayed too far from home i'm just a country boy that stayed too far from home i'm just a country boy that stayed too far from home
9.
she said i want out i said you should go take it slow take it slow i never called out she never came home the thunder rolls the thunder rolls now the rain's coming down the rain comin' down on my soul on my soul and the sky crying out lord lord he knows my heart is gone my heart is gone my heart is gone my heart is gone

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Robert Connely Farr has headed up Vancouver, BC's Mississippi Live & the Dirty Dirty since 2010.

"...no BS rock... one of the most critically-acclaimed vocalists on the west coast... a Steve Earle for today..." 
Canadian Bands

"Vancouver's best Southern Rock Band... Southern like The Bottle Rockets." 
R. Doull / BC Musician Magazine

"If Pearl Jam’s and the Drive By Truckers’ tour busses collided en route to a Neil Young show in New Orleans, the result might sound like “Going Down.”
Richard Amery - LA Beat

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released August 1, 2015

Mississippi Live & the Dirty Dirty are:
Connely Farr
Jay Bundy Johnson
Jon Wood
Ben Yardley

All songs written by Robert Connely Farr, except " Hurtin' " written by Jay Bundy Johnson.

Produced by Jon Wood
Recorded in East Vancouver

released August 1, 2015

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Robert Connely Farr Vancouver, British Columbia

“Thunderous back alley blues”
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“menacing, guttural”
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Robert Connely Farr is from Bolton, Mississippi, home of Charley Patton, Sam Chatmon & the Mississippi Sheiks. He currently resides in Vancouver, BC. A friend & protege of Jimmy "Duck" Holmes, his music is rooted in the Bentonia Style of the Delta Blues - a style originated not far from his home in rural Mississippi.
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