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Bill Callahan - One Fine Morning

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Bill Callahan: Drover

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Bill Callahan: Baby's Breath

Bill Callahan - Too Many Birds

This Old Dog
(c) J. Murdock McInnes Vasey

[intro]

[instrumental]

It is two in the morning
I sleep down on the floor
A mattress and a blanket
Who could ever ask for more

I have a room down in a basement
It's warm enough all winter long
and cool enough in the summer
Not much light but feels like home

[instrumental]

I sleep down there with Elmer
I keep him warm on winter nights
He does not take up much room
And we never get in fights

He is a good bed companion
He is short haired and clean
He's always been a blanket hog
But never has been mean

People say "he's just a dog"
But I've never felt that way
He has feelings and ambitions
And so much joy when he plays

[instrumental]

It's a nice life we have down here
Sometimes he goes to work with me
When I can't take him along
He don't like it but stays home

After work we share our dinner
I am trying to lose weight
This works out well for him
He doesn't mind cleaning my plate

We go out for a long walk
Both of us need exercise
He can run me into the ground
But he always sticks around

[instrumental]

We come back, turn on the music
I just sit there or I'll read
Elmer listens, falls asleep
This is all we'll ever need

The days go by without counting
Our lives, a little strange
Sometimes I think it's sad
But there's nothing I would change

Both of us are getting older
I sure hope that he goes first
Who would want this old dog
And he cannot live alone

he cannot live alone

he cannot live alone

he cannot live alone

[instrumental]

[outro]


This Old Dog (B side)

Buck Ramble at the Picture Show is not just a soundtrack — it is a séance.
A record made of celluloid ghosts, dusty marquees, missing reels, and outlaw sincerity, assembled from the fragments of Ramble’s strangest cinematic years.

Recorded during the decade when the studios didn’t know what to do with him — when he was too serious for comedies, too haunted for hero roles, and too poetic for drive-in westerns — these tracks capture the moment where the legend broke away from the films and became something larger.

Each song on this album was originally written for a different Buck Ramble picture:

some released in compromised form,

some recut for television,

some never screened outside of a single town’s closing night,

and at least one (Hell at High Noon) that survives only as a burned-through print in a county archive.

The music is larger than the movies that held it.
Where the budget ran out, the voice kept going.

This album collects those performances as they were meant to be heard — stripped of studio edits, laugh tracks, narration overdubs, and all the compromises that once buried them. What remains is the sound of a man acting with absolute seriousness inside films that were often collapsing around him, singing to audiences that may never have existed… and meaning every word.

In these songs, we hear:

the romantic outlaw who stole trains just to make love last,

the weary investigator who hunted sins older than the badge itself,

the villain who watched the canyon burn and called it beautiful,

the sheriff in moccasins who treated a comedy like it was scripture.

If the movies couldn’t contain Buck Ramble, the songs did.

Buck Ramble at the Picture Show plays like a lost theater rediscovered in the woods —
one final reel still spinning in the dark,
projecting a man who never stopped believing
that every story — even the broken ones —
deserves a song worth dying for.

My Horse Won’t Listen and Neither Will She

Songs For Beginners

Better Days

Something On Your Mind (Karen Dalton Cover)

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