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When I Get Out

from Boston Nashville by Mike Pellecchia

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The only true rock song on Boston Nashville, this is the story of a cigar left in a tree.

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He walked into the station with his lawyer
smoking a big stogie, and buzzing like a bee
about ten feet outside the station door
he planted that cigar in a tree carefully:
I can smoke it when I get out, smoke it when I get out
Tree grow, cigar go, nowhere. I can smoke it when I get out.

In winter it thawed and froze and thawed and pokey time took its toll
In fall the color changed just like a leaf, in winter it grew lonely for its owner to release.
That stogie was a prisoner in the tree, twigs grew all around and underneath.
Lawyer took a glance up there one day, remembered that his client once did say:
I can smoke it when I get out. Smoke it when I get out.
Tree grow, cigar go, nowhere. I can smoke it when I get out.

Outside the police station where the seasons come and go,
folks who would remember don’t come out that door no more.
So nobody noticed, when that tree was bare, something was gone.
I can smoke it when I get out, smoke it when I get out. Tree grow, cigar go nowhere. I can smoke it when I get out.

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from Boston Nashville, released January 1, 2017
Electric guitar: Eric Kilburn
Trumpet: Dave Amsted
Trombone: Wayne Mogel
Saxophones, electric guitar: Michael Pellecchia

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Mike Pellecchia Lee, New Hampshire

Mike wrote these songs in some of his favorite vintage styles of pop music, as he heard them on the radio and vinyl records in the 1960s. One song is a cover, "You Call It Joggin'", by the late John D. Loudermilk.

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