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Taking Snares Home

from Still Got Some Fight by Asa Phelps

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If you've heard any of my remixes, you know that I like to reconstruct a song that has, for lack of a better word, a "happy" feel to it and take it somewhere much darker. When I began working on this track I thought it was going to be an instrumental that I would have an emcee write to. Instead I took my favorite Edwin Starr track "Twenty Five Miles" (which has one of my favorite break beats in the intro and it's featured in the Chicago based film "Adventures In Babysitting) and, as Hollywood word it, re-imagine it. One of my all time favorite compositions. You can call it remix, but I feel it's much, much more than that.

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Twenty-five miles from home, girl
My feet are hurtin' mighty bad
Now I've been walkin' for three days
And two lonely nights
You know that I'm mighty bad
But I got a girl waitin' for me
That's gonna make this trip worthwhile
You see, she's got the kind
Of lovin' and kissin'
Make a boy go stone wild

I got to keep on walkin'
Oh I got to walk on
Let me tell you, y'all
I'm so tired
But I just can't lose my stride

I got fifteen miles to go now
And I can hear my baby callin' my name
It's as if, as though
I'm standin' at her front door
And I can hear that doggone thing
Now I'll be so glad to see my baby
And hold her in my arms one more time
And when I kiss her lips
I turn backward flip
And I forget about these feet of mine

I got to keep on walkin'

Oh I got to walk on
Let me tell you, y'all
I'm so tired
But I just can't lose my stride

Yeah I got to walk on
Let me tell you, y'all
Hope my feet don't fail me now
I got ten more miles to go
I got nine, eight, seven
Six, oh six

I got five more miles to go now
Over the hills just around the bend
Although my feet are tired
I can't lose my stride
I got to get my baby back again

I got to keep on walkin'
I got to walk on
Let me tell y'all
I'm so tired now
But I just can't lose my stride
Oh, I got to walk on
Let me tell you now
I'm so tired
But I just can't lose my stride
I got to walk on

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from Still Got Some Fight, released June 22, 2010
All music composed and arranged by Asa Phelps

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