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Darlene

from Home by Chris Monti

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Darlene
-words and music © 2011 Chris Monti

I wake up in the morning in my cabin in the fog | I've got a pain in my head like my head against a log | I smell coffee brewing but I live alone | I reach under my pillow but my gun is gone |

I am stripped down naked so I pull my pants on | Peek around the corner and take a look around | I spy a long-haired woman, her ear to my phone | Feet on the table like she was right at home |

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Darlene, Darlene | Won't you leave me alone | I don't have the time to let you run me down |

She looks up and sees me, puts my phone down and smiles | Says, “I let myself in through the back window with a brick | Cleaned out the fridge, made us some coffee and eggs | Went poking around for the checkbook...” |

Darlene dresses sharp in a working-woman's-day-suit | Behind her child's-big-eyes her mind is astute | I can't say for sure that she means to do me harm | But I've got the feeling she wants to get those big strong hands on my farm |

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I live alone I say and I push her away | Throw the eggs in the trash and the coffee down the drain | I open the door on the world of morning light | I say, “Darlene, get out of my sight” |

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I can fix myself breakfast, I need my day to my own | And in the evening I don't mind sleeping alone | You are a beautiful girl, but a woman on the make | And the little I have left of self-respect and time... there's nothing that I'll let you take |

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Darlene you're a fox, I'll give you that | But I fear for my hens like a mouse fears a cat | Come around again with your eye on my crops | Like a .22, tin-can, fence-post I'll drop |

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from Home, released December 1, 2010
Chris on guitar and harmonica

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Chris Monti Providence, Rhode Island

Known for his effortless style and musical curiosity, Chris has immersed himself in West African guitar, dug deep into country-blues and old-time music, and moves seamlessly between diverse styles from Egypt, Peru and India. He has toured the East Coast, Canada and points west. He also enjoys his singular role in the community as a strange combination of entertainer, educator, and magician. ... more

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