Tazewell Beauty Queen (Live)

from Live At McCabe's Guitar Shop by Jeni & Billy

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A song about Jeni's Uncle Roy Lee going into the mines to get down-payment on a Chevy.

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If you don't mind the low seam,
if you don't mind the dark,
if you don't mind the black face
that is every miner's mark,

you can make a fortune
and you can buy a dream.
Go cruising in a Chevy
with the Tazewell Beauty Queen.

If you don't mind the short fuse,
and you don't mind the smell,
if you don't mind a summer
in a place as black as hell,

you can make a fortune
and you can buy a dream.
Go cruising in a Chevy
with the Tazewell Beauty Queen.

If you will make a gamble,
if you will bet your skin,
you can get your wish
in tires and chrome and fins.

You can make a fortune
and you can buy a dream.
Go cruising in a Chevy
with the Tazewell Beauty Queen.

If you will make a gamble,
if you will bet your skin,
you can get your wish
in tires and chrome and fins.

You can make a fortune
and you can buy a dream.
Go cruising in a Chevy
with the Tazewell Beauty Queen.

Oh, you might be dusty now,
but you'll be coming up so clean,
just a-driving in that Chevy
with your Tazewell Beauty Queen.

© Jeni Hankins

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from Live At McCabe's Guitar Shop, track released May 1, 2015
© Jeni Hankins

Jeni Hankins, vocals
Billy Kemp, guitar

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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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