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Oxycodone

from Jewell Ridge Coal by Jeni & Billy

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    Jewell Ridge Coal is steeped in the traditions of the mine and the families whose lives depended on them. The production is simple and uncluttered; the lead instrument is clearly the voice of Jeni, for whom these songs are like members of the family.
    – Wayne Winkler, Now & Then: The Journal of Appalachian Culture

    Jewell Ridge Coal is the best CD by folk, edge of bluegrass artists I've heard in a long time. Jeni's singing sounds to me like a cross between the young Hazel Dickens and Iris Dement. The songs range from raw and powerful to sweet and funny. The instrumental work is excellent and the harmony is just what you'd want it to be." – Si Kahn, Songwriter and Activist

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lyrics

Oxycodone

thanks to Nick Miroff
for Jeff Trapp & Jeff Vandyke

As I tip up my white paper cup,
I think on what Daddy once said,
“If you go along, to get along,
Son, you’d be better off dead.”

But the methadone seeps in my bones
and Daddy, he loses his hold.
A twelve dollar fix, the methadone clicks,
and, then, it’s down to the coal.

Down in the cave, ain’t nobody saved
from fear it’ll be their last time.
Daddy once said, “Son, keep your head,
‘cause life, it can turn on a dime.
Son, just look at mine.”

A mobile home, disconnected phone,
a fortune shot up my veins.
It’s three a.m., to the clinic again,
the county says “its a shame.”

Oxycodone has wrecked my home
and I ain’t seen Daddy for years.
Our last goodbye, I was high
and Daddy was fightin’ back tears.

Down in the cave, ain’t nobody saved
from fear it’ll be their last time.
Daddy once said, “Son, keep your head,
‘cause life, it can turn on a dime.
Son, just look at mine.”

Daddy once said, “Son, keep your head,
‘cause life, it can turn on a dime.
Son, just look at mine.”

© 2008 Jeni Hankins & Billy Kemp, BMI

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from Jewell Ridge Coal, released January 1, 2008

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Jeni Hankins London, UK

Jeni Hankins grew up in the coalfields of Appalachian in Southwest Virginia among a family of miners, moonshiners, and journalists. Her writing pulls the grit, gumption, and keen sense of observation out of that heritage like drawing water from her grandmother’s well.

In every song, Jeni’s “true sense of place shines through – old as the hills, but brand new at the same time.”
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