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You Gotta Stay

from Stay Ahead of the Wolf by Driftwood Soldier

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I knew a man who owed some money to a man who owed some money to a man, wasn’t no kind of person at all. Called himself Wells, last name Fargo. He had a place South of Key Largo, just a PO Box and an axe waiting to fall. You’ve gotta stay ahead of the wolf.

St. Peter had a notion to go walking on the ocean, wasn’t no surprise he sank like a rock. So when all the sheep and all the people went running to the steeple they found the shepherd and he was preying on the flock. You’ve gotta stay ahead of the wolf.

Well we all know you’re an artist, an authentic auteur, with your turntables, Medicaid and Bota Box of wine. But all your editors and your creditors are waiting in the wings to see what their little canary is gonna dig up in the mine. You’ve gotta stay ahead of the wolf.

You wanna stay. You better run.
You wanna stay. You better run.

I don’t make the rules, try not to follow them. I don’t make no money, most of the time I don’t make no sense. But when the wolf in the east pasture and the wolf in the west pasture it won’t save you to sit up on your fence. You’ve gotta stay ahead of the wolf.

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from Stay Ahead of the Wolf, released October 18, 2019
Written by Owen Lyman-Schmidt
Arranged and performed by Driftwood Soldier

Driftwood Soldier is:
Owen Lyman-Schmidt: Vocals, Mandolin, Suitcase, License Plate
Bobby Szafranski: Bass Guitar, Bottle Caps

Additional Instrumentation:
Eric Sherman: Trumpet

Produced by Driftwood Soldier with Erin McKeown
Recorded by Alex Santilli and Eric Bogacz at Spice House Sound in Philadelphia, PA
Mixed by Ted Hutt and Ryan Mall at Kingsize Soundlabs in Eagle Rock, CA
Mastered by Ryan Schwabe

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Driftwood Soldier is no average mandolin-bass foot-stomping gutter-folk duo.

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