Speakeasy Solo Live

Talladega Girl In A Mercury Solo Live

Before I interviewed Kevin Nealon, he picked my old banjo and asked me to play one of my songs. I just found this recording from I think 2006. LANGUAGE WARNING, y'all

Kevin Nealon on banjo and me

This track is from the album Sweetbriar and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/cesca

Blood & Wine

Riley

Talladega Girl in a Mercury
© Cesca Janece/Y'allsongs (ASCAP)

Took my man from his darlin Sue
Silly bitch, thinkin he was true
Dropped him cold cuz I got pissed
Stupid man, thinkin I was his

7 counties working every badge OT
Radio's whining an all-PB
Got my pistol by my side
For any motherfucker who'd like to try

Look out, world, the devil's free
I'm a Talladega girl in a Mercury
I was a child of god when I was three
I'm a Talladega girl in a Mercury

Pine trees speeding past the glass
Fire up a Lucky, boot on the gas
Hundred miles an hour in the Gulf Coast sun
Gonna carve my name in a Tupelo gum

Nothing I know can light my face
Like a hairpin curve Alabama chase
Long arm law nearly got my hide
Thank you, boys, for a helluva ride

Look out, world, the devil's free
I'm a Talladega girl in a Mercury
I knew you, now you know me
I'm a Talladega girl in a Mercury

A girl with it all troubles herself
A girl with nothing troubles everyone else
I oughta know so I drink doubles
I'm just trouble

improv/adlib
Repeat Chorus

© Cesca Janece/Y'allsongs (ASCAP)


Talladega Girl in a Mercury live

Dragstrip Lament
(c) Cesca Waterfield Y'allsongs (ASCAP)

I gotta V8 growlin at the light
You should see em crowd around it everynight
I don't give a damn who wants to take a ride
If I'm not your girl

I got a hood scoop smokin like a gun
Above my heart, broken just for fun
I don't give a damn who takes my keys and runs
If I'm not your girl

Everybody got a weakness they can't name
Somebody somewhere put the pedal down 
on pain
You were my reverie, honey
I thought you felt the same
But you left me here stranded
Just an engine in the rain


I got this ring that once hung from my throat
All those pretty words, all those pretty notes
Take em to the Bay, see if they float
I'm not your girl

Everybody got a weakness they can't name
Somebody put you down on pain
You were my reverie, honey
I thought you felt the same
But you left me, you left me
just an engine in the rain


Dragstrip Lament rehearsal

BABY'S ROOM (c) Cesca Janece Waterfield Y'allsongs (ASCAP) Recorded August 2019 South Florida, Gary Wayne's studio

Baby's Room

BLUES & GASOLINE 
(c) 2019 Cesca Janece Waterfield Y’allsongs (ASCAP) 

Bruises and bellflowers
I wear them in my hair
Hours fill the silence
That he left me here
I’m flying to the bottom
So fast the engine’s hot
Counting lines on my face
There’s nothing else I got 

Blues and gasoline
Nothing’s cheap when it’s all free
But I got nine days clean
Save me, Abilene
Help me beat my score and make living its own reward
How many miles more to run
Abilene, take my gun

Flashing lights, a Crown Vic
Sheets across my bed
One is right behind me
One is miles up ahead
One’s the sky and benzos
Shadows of his face
One’s the place where desperation crashes into grace

Repeat Chorus 

Bridge
I tell myself it’ll turn around someday
Like holding the dying and saying
Help is on the way 
Blues and gasoline
Nothing’s cheap when it’s all free
But I got 53 days clean
Save me, Abilene
Help me beat my score and make living its own reward
How many miles more
How many miles more

BLUES & GASOLINE Original Song By Cesca Janece

FATHERLESS DAUGHTERS, Original Song By Cesca Janece Waterfield

Cesca Waterfield is a singer-songwriter whose work reflects her upbringing in Alabama and Virginia. Her gift for story-songs and eerie characters elicits comparisons between Cesca and other writers unmistakably Southern. She wraps vocals so believable around tales of heartache, revenge and lust, it's as if she’s not only the medium for her cast of characters, but has lived a while as each of them.

Cesca Janece

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