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The Trial of Wily Bo (If I Ever Get Out of Here)

from The Trial of Wily Bo (If I Ever Get Out of Here) by Wily Bo Walker & E D Brayshaw

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"Seven years of bad luck, seven years of pain
Seven years until I'm back on the streets again…'

Does Wily Bo finally get his comeuppance?

Another tale and drunken fable from Wily Bo Walker's cinematic world of VoodooVille, a landscape which delivers its stories of love, betrayal, death, murder, and all those other Southern gothic, voodoo blues, swamp’n’stomp myths, in film noir tropes…

Welcome to VoodooVille!

"You can turn the lights out on me…"


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YOU WERE BORN UNLUCKY
THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID TO ME
AS SHE PACKED HER BAGS AND LEFT
FOR A NEW COUNTRY
WELL I DON’T KNOW
WHAT I WAS MEANT TO THINK
ON THE NIGHT THAT SHE SET ME FREE
BUT I DO REMEMBER THINKING
THAT GIRL HAD MADE A FOOL OUT OF ME
SHE WAS MY LUCKY CHARM
SHE USED TO HOLD MY ARM
SHE USED TO KEEP ME
FROM THE DEVIL’S HARM
AND IF SHE DON’T RETURN
YOU CAN TURN THE LIGHTS OUT ON ME…

WELL I NEVER GOT TO MEET HER MOTHER
HER SISTER OR HER ELDER BROTHER
SO I WENT DOWN SAINTS ROAD
TRYING TO SCORE ME
A LITTLE BIT OF SYMPATHY
BUT WHEN I MET THE MAN I WAS HANDED THE CAN
AND A COP PULLED ME OVER
TO THE SIDE OF THE VAN
SAID THIS’LL GET YOU SEVEN YEARS
AND YOU CAN HAVE THEM ALL FOR FREE
SHE WAS MY LUCKY CHARM
SHE USED TO HOLD MY ARM
SHE USED TO KEEP ME, KEEP ME
FROM THE DEVIL’S HARM
AND IF SHE DON’T RETURN
YOU CAN TURN THE LIGHTS OUT ON ME…
SEVEN YEARS OF BAD LUCK
SEVEN YEARS OF PAIN
SEVEN YEARS
UNTIL I’M BACK ON THE STREETS AGAIN
BUT THAT JUDGE HE WAS FEELING KIND
HE READ MY CASE
THEN HE READ MY MIND
HE SAID I FEEL SORRY FOR YOU SON
COS I KNOW HOW BLIND
A CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE CAN BE
BUT THAT GIRL YOU LOVE IS MY DAUGHTER
SHE LEFT ME WITH EXPLICIT ORDERS
WHEN I LOCK YOU UP
WELL I SHOULD THROW AWAY THE KEY

AND I SAID BABY BABY
BABY WHAT YOU DOING TO ME?
YOU KNOW I WANT YOU HOME
YOU KNOW THAT’S WHERE YOU’RE MEANT TO BE
YOU’RE MY LUCKY CHARM
WANT YOU TO HOLD MY ARM
WANT YOU TO KEEP ME, KEEP ME
FROM THE DEVIL’S HARM
AND IF YOU DON’T RETURN
YOU CAN TURN THE LIGHTS OUT ON ME…
SAID THAT SHE LOVED ME SOME
AND IF THE TIME WILL COME
WHEN MY LUCK IS GONNA CHANGE
SHE WOULD COME BACK HOME
BUT SHE DON’T BELIEVE THAT’S GONNA HAPPEN
UNFORTUNATELY

POOR UNLUCKY ME…

© 2023 Wily Bo Walker & E D Brayshaw. All Rights Reserved

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from The Trial of Wily Bo (If I Ever Get Out of Here), released December 15, 2023
Wily Bo Walker - Vocals

E D Brayshaw - Lead Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Hammond, Mandolin, Lap Steel, 12 String, Electric Rhythm Guitar, Bass, Drums, Backing Vocals

Kareña K - Backing Vocals

Arrangement by WBW & EDB

Produced by Wily Bo Walker

Mastered at 24 Bit 96khz by Denis Blackham, Skye Mastering

'Wily Bo' Cover Photo © Christina Jansen. All Rights Reserved

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