Take This Heart and Lock It Up

by Murry Hammond

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A little preview from the upcoming album "Trail Songs of the Deep." Can't wait for you to hear the whole thing. To further tease, here is the full tracklisting:

3:10 to Liverpool
Take This Heart and Lock It Up
By the End of the Night
Praise the Road
Wedding Plates
Long American Highway
Old Bo's Dream
When A Fella Needs A Friend
Trinity River Bridge
You're Gone Again

All songs by Murry Hammond, Pennycost Music, ASCAP

lyrics

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Take This Heart and Lock it Up

Lock the door behind you when you go
Don't recall you ever called it home
Leave the things that weigh you so down
Don't you dare let the memory slow, slow you now

And don't you dare look up upon her face
Leave the pictures there in their old place
Some things are best not ever, ever understood
Take this heart and lock it up for good

Out the window take a last embrace
Of the world as it will always stay
Don't print it technicolor upon your mind
Let these things move you down, down down the line

Don't you walk on back to see the room
Where happy nights were without end for you
And love would always stand there
Where she stood
Take this heart and lock it up for good

Now you've got it all in story form
Tell the bar man when the sun is warm
And that you're only passing through, on your way
But maybe you'll be by tomorrow
Same as today

Cuz you just can't take your eyes from her face
Cuz you just keep on going back to that place
And you just don't know that you ever ever could
Take this heart and lock it up for good

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credits

released December 29, 2022
Murry Hammond - vocals, guitars, pianos, harmoniums
Annie Crawford - Organs, pianos, harmoniums
Richard Hewett - Drums, percussion
Faith Shippey - Bowed upright bass

Produced & engineered - Murry Hammond, Todd Burke, and with grateful help from Mark Neill.

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Murry Hammond Los Angeles, California

Murry co-founded alt-country legends Old 97's in 1992. His first solo album "I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I'm On My Way" garnered rave reviews and inclusion in such things as "The Winding Stream" documentary film on the legendary Carter Family. Murry is thrilled to announce the follow up to that record, the 10-song "Trail Songs of the Deep", due in 2023. ... more

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