https://soundcloud.com/swampspruce/sets/poker-man 
   I wrote/composed this song in the oldest active commercial fishing boat in the Pacific coast..  I love the lyrics and could not think of cutting it in any other fashion (raw and unplugged) than this and put the vintage  Dylan feel to it..  Needs bongo's only and it will feel and sound much better after I yelp this out in studio.  
                                 ..... LYRICS....
 I wanna tell you a story about the blues of a hollow shell that could be u.... starts on earth then to the moon the Milky Way is where she'll take u....  your floating in space no feet on the ground all Hindu's flowers praise to be found ......was this heaven or Budda's height or the Qur'ans journey of Muhammad's flight.   Red man spirit Aztec sacrifice RA and all and that distant light.  I want you to listen and hear it well some will loose some will fall nothing left here but and empty shell no road to travel in your living hell ....... this road of what was meant too be turns to the blues a long history child don't bark don't agitate don't take those things they are nothing but fake..  its a long way down when u step of the moon so pick yourself up from the depths of doom......  your not the first you wont be the last the story of the blues is never outta gas..
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"Story of the Blues"  (Demo)low quality recording

My music link and demo's -  https://soundcloud.com/swampspruce/sets/poker-man
My poker video -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wejaalokpIY
A folk country song...  This song is about the time of the civil war in America and is intended to reflect two sides of the fence.  Its amazing how society sensationalize's so I took that into account and wrote and composed my song "Jesse James".   Since Gov't people still in some capacity orchestrate our deaths and misery then its always a good time for a song like this...    
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@Swamp_Spruce

"Jesse James"   low quality recording demo

https://soundcloud.com/swampspruce/sets/poker-man
  Have to change a very few words here and there but pribably will release this.

"GREED" (demo) low quality recording

 https://soundcloud.com/swampspruce/sets/poker-man
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wejaalokpIY
This original rough demo is basically Folk Grass..


"Gypsy Wind" (demo)low quality demo recording

https://soundcloud.com/swampspruce/sets/poker-man
This is a cover song in carnival style Rag Tag Anny monilation fragmentation ::) I think this was one of the greatest songs ever made and many have covered it alas I changed it up and did it my way..  Theres a couple words missing but thats the way it goes on the road
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@Swamp_Spruce

"Moon River" (Homemade cover)low quality recording

YOU TUBE video link - https://youtu.be/wejaalokpIY  

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This track is from my unplugged raw folk album "Swamp Spruce Unplugged on Fader Mountain". 
 "Poker Man" received high assessment/ critque from the  Song Association of Canada and put "Poker Man" on the map not just in the poker game.. 
NOTE:   I do not endorse poker or gambling in any formality when it come to money exchanging hands.  Especially those with addiction issues!    Play within your means and enjoy the game!!
CONTACT:
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@Swamp_Spruce

The second lyrical part of this song describes / indicates the ego confidence part of the players game!

                                               POKER MAN
 Lay down those rockets boy -  lay down that hand  -  sly fox smile  -  hidden child  -  such an easy read  -  text book free......
 I seen too much pain and I cant keep outta the rain 
that's why I'm a poker man - that's why I'm a poker man and I play whenever I can and I play whenever I can. 
Don't push that stack Joe -  she's about to fold -  not too fast  - not too slow - better to count some than none -  better to count some than none - time is not lost - time is not lost - when you got no cost - when u face no cost 
  And that's why I'm a poker man that's why I'm a  poker man and I play whenever I can and I play whenever I can...
   Poker Man,  poker man, poker man,  poker man,  poker man ,  poker man .
                         Hey you gotta back door to this joint man !!!!

Swamp Spruce Unplugged on Fader Mountain

Poker Man

"POKER MAN"  (Original Released)

"Dark Days" (Original - Released)

"Poker Man" my poker song - https://youtu.be/wejaalokpIY
 My  raw unplugged tunes / link on Sound Cloud - https://soundcloud.com/swampspruce/sets/poker-man
Website  link - www.cdbaby.com/cd/deanshaw
 I wrote this song for the possibility for Tracy Chapman 2 record.  I think she could knock it out of the ballpark.   It is a story regards to a sickness called astigmatism!  The survival story from a rape victim from Africa  inspired this song.  The picture here posted is the opening to China Beach, Vancouver Island.   Very unique place to visit and very very HUGE trees!

02/02/2013

"Chains of Pain" (Released)

 https://soundcloud.com/swampspruce/sets/poker-man
This track is from the album Swamp Spruce Unplugged On Fader Mountain.
dean.shaw.5030@facebook.com
@Swamp_Spruce
 #PokerMan

Hang Man's Gate

"Hang Man's Gate" (Released)

All my released songs are free for download on this link below. https://soundcloud.com/swampspruce/sets/poker-man
This  track is from the album Swamp Spruce Unplugged On Fader Mountain. 
dean.shaw.5030@facebook.com
@Swamp_Spruce

Starring in the Wind

"Starring in the Wind" (Released)

https://soundcloud.com/swampspruce/sets/poker-man
This folk rock track is from my album Swamp Spruce Unplugged on Fader Mountain.
dean.shaw.5030@facebook.com
@Swamp_Spruce
#PokerMan
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Swamp Spruce Unplugged on FAder Mountain

Streets Have Gone Wild

Streets Have Gone Wild (Released)

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Poker video on YouTube youtu.be/wejaalokpIY
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Original homemade work in process uploaded and copyrighted 2014-07-06 00:39 GMT here on Sound Cloud.   This is one of my favorite demo songs (very simple folk ) I written and composed.    I believe it would be a really good vocal fit for Adele , Taylor Swift, and Miranda Lambert.   I have pitched this song to certain artists / labels / producers in chance they may take it under their wing.   It has the potential to be turned into a good song or perpetuated into a great song..  The building blocks of great songs need to start somewhere and originality is hard for some producers and singers to establish.  There are few concepts and rare true originality in the music world that can be mega mainstreamed.   Sometimes it comes in the simplest forms.  You look at the structure / concept and mechanics of this song and perk up the vocals and drag it out some and then you get the start of your song and then revisited it in second part of song and you see a resemblance or copy right infringement since I publically uploaded this song in 2013.  Just need a piano with a simple pulse for some people!   Bob Dylan said there are no rules anymore in the music business and those who know music well know about sound alikes and theft of music concepts / structure and mechanics of a song and this happens at the top of the food chain it appears or by fluke of nature and mere coincidences? Let the music people decide!
LYRICS..
It was May that day
I was lost in the hidden valley of decay
   and  you came my way
your heart brought a spirit to stay
    but betray gave way
And I fell back to the valley of decay
And I fell back to the valley of decay
   And now u say 
U pray that together we just might stay
   but go away  
there aint no room for you anyway
there aint no room for you anyway
And today in May I wait for another who came to stay
And keep me from the valley of decay
No more hidden valley's of decay
No more hidden valley's of decay
                             dean.shaw.5030@facebook.com
                                      @Swamp_Spruce

"Valley of Decay" (demo)low quality recording  est. 2013

 https://soundcloud.com/swampspruce/sets/poker-man
 This original is registered with Ascap.


"Time"  (original country music)low quality demo recording

Another version but similar and more vintage Dylan.  my guitar needs some work and there is no amp or use of a mic on my homemade recordings.  
                                       .. LYRICS....
 I wanna tell you a story about the blues of a hollow shell that could be u starts on earth then to the moon the Milky Wave is where she'll take u....  your floating in space no feet on the ground all Hindu's flowers praise to be found ......was this heaven or Budda's height or the Qurans journey of Muhammad's flight.   Red Man spirit Aztec sacrifice RA and all and that distant light.  I want you to listen and hear it well some will loose some will fall nothing left here but and empty shell no road to travel in your living hell ....... this road of what was meant too be turns to the blues a long history child don't bark don't agitate don't take those things they are nothing but fake..  its a long way down when u step of the moon so pick yourself up from the depths of doom......  your not the first you wont be the last the story of the blues is never outta gas..

"Story of the Blues 2"   Homemade demo 2 Low quality recording

Just a homemade cover with twist on a great, great, great song and  I rocked out a bit on it..   Link to my songs below.. 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wejaalokpIY
 https://soundcloud.com/swampspruce/sets/poker-man
dean.shaw.5030@facebook.com
@Swamp_Spruce
www.cdbaby.com/cd/deanshaw

Lonesome Whistle (Hank Williams cover) homemade low quality recording

My song link here- https://soundcloud.com/swampspruce/sets/poker-man
 This song sounds much better live!
Your friendly neighborhood POKER MAN -  https://youtu.be/wejaalokpIY

Coke Train (homemade demo) low quality recording

recorded with no amp / no mic ..  Ole school
https://soundcloud.com/swampspruce/sets/poker-man
    You Tube :   youtu.be/wejaalokpIY
            Lryrics for "Sweet Heart Like you"
Well the pressure's down, the boss ain't here
 He's gone North, for a while
 They say that vanity got the best of him
 But he sure left here in style
 By the way, that's a cute hat
 And that smile's so hard to resist
 But what's a sweetheart like you doing in a dump like this?

You know, I once knew a woman who looked like you
 She wanted a whole man, not just a half
 She used to call me sweet daddy when I was only a child
 You kind of remind me of her when you laugh
 In order to deal in this game, got to make the queen disappear
 It's done with a flick of the wrist
 What's a sweetheart like you doing in a dump like this?

You know a woman like you should be at home
 That's where you belong
 Taking care for somebody nice
 Who don't know how to do you wrong
 Just how much abuse will you be able to take?
 Well, there's no way to tell by that first kiss
 What's a sweetheart like you doing in a dump like this?

You know you can make a name for yourself
 You can hear them tires squeal
 You could be known as the most beautiful woman
 Who ever crawled across cut glass to make a deal.

You know, news of you has come down the line
 Even before ya came in the door
 They say in your father's house, there's many a mansions
 Each one of them got a fireproof floor
 Snap out of it baby, people are jealous of you
 They smile to your face, but behind your back they hiss
 What's a sweetheart like you doing in a dump like this?

Got to be an important person to be in here, honey
 Got to have done some evil deed
 Got to have your own harem when you come in the door
 Got to play your harp until your lips bleed.
 They say that patriotism is the last refuge
 To which a scoundrel clings
 Steal a little and they throw you in jail
 Steal a lot and they make you king
 There's only one step down from here, baby
 It's called the land of permanent bliss
 What's a sweetheart like you doing in a dump like this?

"Sweet Heart Like You" (Bob Dylan cover) low quality home recording

  my song link here - https://soundcloud.com/swampspruce/sets/poker-man
                                    LYRICS
I was winter you were spring I bought you flowers you hide your ring
I see sunshine you see rain you never call but your back again
  Sooo long dear John
If I were a cowboy and you a steer I'd ride west the hell outta here but you would play baby talk like a lady I'd say maybe and start this crazy
   Soooo wrong I'm a gone
The shit kick'n that kitten's given keeps on lick'n while I keep pik'n 
 now I'm spring and you are winter heading for sun paying for dinner 
Ohhh Wrong din

"OHH  Wrong Ding Dong" (home demo)

Recorded raw with no mic or amp..   Thought I'd take one of the best songs ever written and spill out an ole school take on it..  Hendrix changed the lyrics up from Dylan's original so I cut his lyrical version!
 Check out my songs & demo's on this link -  soundcloud.com/swampspruce/sets/poker-man 
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  You Tube link - https://youtu.be/wejaalokpIY   
                              
                           (LYRICS  - Jimmy Hendrix version  )
There must be some kind of way outta here
 Said the joker to the thief
 There's too much confusion
 I can't get no relief
Business men, they drink my wine
 Plowman dig my earth
 None were level on the mind
 Nobody up at his word
 Hey, hey
No reason to get excited
 The thief he kindly spoke
 There are many here among us
 Who feel that life is but a joke
 But, uh, but you and I, we've been through that
 And this is not our fate
 So let us stop talkin' falsely now
 The hour's getting late, hey
All along the watchtower
 Princes kept the view
 While all the women came and went
 Barefoot servants, too
 Outside in the cold distance
 A wildcat did growl
 Two riders were approaching
 And the wind began to howl

All Along The Watch Tower ( Dylan - Jimmy Hendrix cover) low quality recording

The Mountain

Swamp Spruce Unplugged on Fader Mounbtain

The River

https://music.apple.com/us/album/swamp-spruce-unplugged-on-fader-mountain/617225787

 Check out my poker song video on YouTube  -  https://youtu.be/wejaalokpIY


Singer songwriter songs and mixture of  released and homemade folk, folk rock, folk country and folk grass .. 
  Representing live raw unplugged singer song writer tunes. 
 Have unreleased low quality home demo's here and all registered work's with Ascap and Song Assiciation of Canada. 

Contact here or below..
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