Ralph Beeby & the Elephant Collective
Long Road Home (Acoustic Version) - digital single
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If the original Long Road Home gave hints of dustbowl, this acoustic version leans even harder into the sun-bleached landscape of the lyric. Duncan Menzies drives the song with a doleful banjo line, with the harmonica whistling over the top like a hot, dusty wind.
Lyric
Sun is blazing through a dry and dusty sky,
The trees are firewood and the creek has boiled dry
There's an old mule kicking in the stall,
Going crazy for a drop of rain to fall
Old station wagon spent six months up on blocks,
Nobody seen old Joe since his wife changed the locks
You can wait days for another car to pass,
Try to hitch a ride but you're going nowhere fast
On the long road home
Callie spends another evening by the 'phone,
She's been saying for seven years that one day he'll come home
Bullhead Jack hums an eerie melody,
Steaming decals off a van he stole in Muskogee
Now Shirley's playing old 78s of Tampa Red,
Washing methylated spirit through an old loaf of bread
She keeps a loaded shotgun in her shack,
One eye on the road in case her husband comes back
On the long road home...
The trees are firewood and the creek has boiled dry
There's an old mule kicking in the stall,
Going crazy for a drop of rain to fall
Old station wagon spent six months up on blocks,
Nobody seen old Joe since his wife changed the locks
You can wait days for another car to pass,
Try to hitch a ride but you're going nowhere fast
On the long road home
Callie spends another evening by the 'phone,
She's been saying for seven years that one day he'll come home
Bullhead Jack hums an eerie melody,
Steaming decals off a van he stole in Muskogee
Now Shirley's playing old 78s of Tampa Red,
Washing methylated spirit through an old loaf of bread
She keeps a loaded shotgun in her shack,
One eye on the road in case her husband comes back
On the long road home...