Name: Old-Timey Halos
Duration: P00H03M24S
Description: For many years I've enjoyed playing the song Paul Newman sang weeping with the banjo in Cool Hand Luke. It was so short I added the middle verse, chorus and breakdown. I couldn't help but go full genre gospel and tag it out with the old-timey classic "I'll Fly Away"

Old-Timey Halos

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For many years I've enjoyed playing the song Paul Newman sang weeping with the banjo in Cool Hand Luke. It was so short I added the middle verse, chorus and breakdown. I couldn't help but go full genre gospel and tag it out with the old-timey classic "I'll Fly Away"

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I don't care if it rains or freezes
As long as I've got my plastic Jesus
Sittin on the dashboard of my car

It comes in colors that are pink and pleasant
It glows in the dark 'cause it's iridescent
And I'll take it with me whenever I go far

So bring me my lady Madonna
Dressed in rhinestones, sittin' on a
Pedestal of abalone shells

Drivin' ninety but I'm not scary
Just as long as I got that virgin Mary
Assuring me that I will never go to hell

So let's drive drive drive
Aint it good to be alive
Right here at the same place about the same time

Well I never seen the northern lights
Although I expect to before I die
So let's drive, drive all day, drive all night

With these halos, old-timey halos
With these halos upon our head
With these halos, good-timey halos
With these halos upon our head

Well the TVs broke, we got no batteries to make it
Theres a banjo in the corner you could learn how to pick it
Got a song in your heart you could take it out and sing it
Got a bell in your pocket you could take it out and ring it

With these halos, old-timey halos
With these halos upon our head
With these halos, good-timey halos
With these halos upon our head

One fine morning when this life is over
I'll fly away
To my home on god's celestial shore
I'll fly away
I'll fly away oh glory, I'll fly away in the morning
When I die hallelujah by and by
I'll fly away

With these halos, old-timey halos
I'll fly away
With these halos, good-timey halos
I'll fly away

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from Freak Out Folk, released April 4, 2015

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Freak Out Folk Santa Cruz, California

Zach Langton is a small rock family man living in Santa Cruz, California. Freak Out Folk is the latest ensemble of friends playing the hits.

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