Comes with high quality 10 pages booklet. CD and art printed in Australia. Will be shipped w/out the jewel case (Except Italy). CDs shipped from the US deptm will have Jewel Box.
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"Written in March 2008 with another songwriter pal of mine Bret Hart. It reflects the old 19th century custom of moving goods and produce to markets up and down the local Dan River on a long flat bottom boat called a ‘Batteau’". (Ron Marco)
"I think Ron has written a fine song; the lyrics are very authentic and sound as if they could have been written 150 years ago; a simple man reflecting on a hard life and the simple pleasures that make it bearable." (Scott Verner)
lyrics
WORKING ON A BATTEAU
Ron Martin and Bret Hart
Working on a Batteau
From Leaksville by the Dan
I'm working on a Batteau
For ole man Geoffery Gann
For ole man Geoffery Gann
There's cotton and tobacco
To take to Danville town
Bushels of new "taters"
And molasses sweet and brown
Molasses sweet and brown
Miss Lucy's apple cider
And quilts of feather down
To lie on when it's hot
And the current's all calmed down
The current's all calmed down
When I get to Danville
Gonna walk all over that town
Find me something pretty
For that girl in Leaksville town
INSTR. BREAK
When I get to Danville
Gonna walk all over that town
Find me something pretty
For that girl in Leaksville town
Pushing on this pole and watching
It keeps me off the sand
It's hard work getting home on time
To see that girl again
See that girl again
Working on a Batteau
From Leaksville by the Dan
I'm working on a Batteau
For ole man Geoffery Gann
For ole man Geoffery Gann
For ole man Geoffery Gann
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