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Great Elk

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1.
Down in the willow garden where me and my love did meet There we sat a'courting my love fell off to sleep I had a bottle of burglar's wine my true love did not know and I did murder that dear little girl down on the banks below I stabbed her with a dagger it was a bloody knife and I threw her in the river it was a dreadful sight My father often told me money would set me free If I would murder that dear little girl whose name was Rose Connolly Sits alone in his cabin home wiping the tears from his eyes waiting for his son to come home up on scaffold high My race is run beneath the sun Hell awaits for me For I did murder that dear little girl whose name was Rose Connolly
2.
Bow Echo 04:25
Slick smile says, "storm's blowing in Disaster at best oh, kiss it good-bye kiss it good-bye." "Waters will rise to shame old flood lines doom, falling skies." There's fear in his eyes, there's fear in his eyes The ratings are high Anchor weighs in drama begins "Goodbye my dear friends I've loved my life I've loved my life." The ratings are high And outside my window barely a wind blow an absent bow echo the prophet is hollow Audience cries static in their eyes Go on to love your lives come, give it a try give it a try the ratings are high And outside my window barely a wind blow an absent bow echo the prophet is hollow
3.
A week long and bent my body half-dead but that look you give could keep me feeling alright When you're sitting at the bar in the morning, full of stars you look like a bitter- hearted divorcee With your menthol cigarettes alcoholic coffee drinks mopping up a morning lost to lust Blue Rodeo on the radio roping love-lost tears down your face And sad, jealous eyes of sad drunken guys checking my every move Oh, come on baby come on, one more time There's seconds left they're only yours and mine I step outside the door to the morning full of stars and streetlights pissing in the snow I'm leaving love behind for the last fucking time and I'm never talking to any of your kind again Oh, Beverly you crept up on me this time a sneak attack a two verse lullabye Oh, Beverly you crept up on me this time a sneak attack a two verse lullabye I'm leaving town I'm walking out tonight I'm going further north to go and hide Away from any sort of love I'll build a life out of loneliness and lust and what little's left of pride I'm leaving town I'm walking out tonight I'm going further north to go and hide I'm leaving town I'm walking out tonight I'm going further north...
4.
Sitting on cold floor thinking of soon behind locked door under iron-striped moon I can be alone if I thinking of you when I was your Jester and you were my June I'd sit on the platform waiting for you to walk past me daily, not noticing too there's nothing inside me if I don't have you I'm a cyclops seer, I'm a killer, I'm a fool I'm holding your memory, dear I'm holding your memory, dear It's been two years since the bastards put me in here I'm holding your memory dear I picked up your penny I tapped on your arm you looked, you laughed, you scoffed and walked on It was just a kind gesture to return what was yours but you saw a jester and love turn to scorn A flash, an impulse, a pulling on my mind pulling, pulling, pulling from inside If I'd waited for my heart, oh, we wouldn't be so cold with you so dead and me nearly so I'm holding your memory dear I'm holding your memory dear It's been two years since the bastards put me in here I'm holding your memory dear I sit in my cell and wait for the noose sometimes I still love you sometimes there's no use Well, if I had two hearts I'd give you half of one then I'd take it back and I'd do it again
5.
Vibrations 05:22
Your cool eyes could lie and warm hands could carry knives A sunrise passed by and all our plans good night It's just vibrations and air passing through my teeth And it's all inert no, don't mind me It's a waste of air a waste of heat To be taciturn might comfort me If one light hit her eye and one man's for one life It's just vibrations and air passing through my teeth And it's all inert darling, don't mind me It's a waste of air a waste of heat To be taciturn might comfort me

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released June 22, 2010

GREAT ELK is - Paul Basile, Patrick Hay, Bryan Trenis, Tommy Harron and Adam Christgau




GREAT ELK EP Liner Notes:

All songs by Paul Basile, except "Down in the Willow Garden", Traditional.

- Paul Basile – Vocals, guitars
- Patrick Hay – Guitars, keys, backing vocals, percussion

with...

- Adam Christgau – Drums and percussion
- Jon Estes – Bass
- Bryan Trenis – Accordion, percussion
- Casey Shea – Backing Vocals

- Produced by Great Elk

- Recorded by Bryan Trenis at Vacation Island Studios, Brooklyn, NY and in beautiful Belmont, VT, October 2009 – March 2010.

- Drums and Bass recorded by Ian Love in Brooklyn, NY, September 2009

- Mixed by Bryan Trenis at Vacation Island Studios

- Mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering, Boston, MA

- Package Design by Erica Rudy, photos by Paul Basile

- Casey Shea appears courtesy of Family Records


THANK YOU,
Bryan Trenis, Casey Shea, Matt Singer, James Preston, Mike Cook, Paul and Margie Whyte, Kathryn Musilek, Erica Rudy, Lara Ewen and the entire Local Correspondents community. And Katie. And special thanks to all of our friends and family whose names we can’t we fit in this little space. Without your support none of this would have ever been written, performed or recorded.

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The New Yorker says - “The Brooklyn rockers Great Elk display the control and restraint of a band with deep chemistry, as they sway gracefully between gentle ballads and mid-tempo indie-rock tunes.”

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