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Rock Steady

by Rawlins Cross

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1.
Rock Steady 03:11
Tonight there'll be a time his crowd's gettin' primed Is everybody ready? Jack is back from sea Nancy's on a spree Is everybody ready? Rock steady! Is everybody ready? Rock steady! Leave your troubles at the door Get out on the floor Is everybody ready? Feel the music high Laugh until we cry Is everybody ready? Rock steady! Is everybody ready? Rock steady! Goodbye to our friends We'll be back again When everybody's ready Closin' time last call One more round that's all Is everybody ready? Rock steady! Is everybody ready? Rock steady! Tonight there'll be a time This crowd's gettin' primed Is everybody ready? Rock steady! Is everybody ready? Rock steady! Is everybody ready? Rock steady!
2.
Well hello how you been It’s so good to see you again How many years? Close to ten Do you think about me? How did I let you get away? Let's sit and talk about the old days I know it's late but let me stay I just want to hold you tonight We'd lay under the stars and talk 'til two 'Bout places we'd go and things we'd do Nobody else just me and you It's all we ever needed So let's turn the lights down low A little Sam Cooke on the radio I don't want to face this world alone I just want to hold you tonight Sometimes I lose myself I want to be somewhere else Think about what could have been But I could never let you in I know that I should leave There's someone out there waiting for me Some things were never meant to be I just want to hold you I just want to be with you I just want to hold you tonight
3.
Long have we travelled Facing the sun Chasing down glory from battles hard won Cadence and rhythms Laughter and tone Arced 'cross the skylines And carried us home Long have we lingered Headlong in the storm Once thought to have perished But now are reborn In the glow of the morning Glazed by the dew Gladdened by blessings Us fortunate few The world kept on turning In the blink of an eye Despite all we learned In joy and duress To simply get by. We never surrendered Or flinched in the fray Long have we travelled To be here today Long have we travelled To stand here today Long have we travelled What’s yet to come Unwritten melodies And ballads unsung When the piper strikes up We’ll answer the call ‘neath banner and heaven Come thunder, come thrall ‘neath banner and heaven Come thunder, come thrall
4.
I got your profile, I got your story But I can't get you outta my mind I got your postcard, I got your letter I got your phonecall the other day I got your email for worse or better But I can't get you outta my mind I got your number, I got your message I got the voicemail you sent me I got your memo now I'm confessing That I can't get you outta my mind I can't get you outta my mind I can't get you outta my mind I can't get you outta my mind I can't get you outta my mind I got your mobile, I got your pager I got the fax in the middle of the night I got your website I'll make a wager That I can't get you outta my mind I can't get you outta my mind I can't get you outta my mind I can't get you outta my mind I can't get you outta my mind I don't know what I can take Cure me of this ill Something inside I can wake Give me back my will I can't get you outta my mind I can't get you outta my mind I can't get you outta my mind I can't get you outta my mind
5.
Let’s throw our fortunes to the wind, For life goes flashing quickly by And find the strength to rise again, Make it look like magic to the untrained eye For if we could reawaken, far down a road not taken Chancing on an open door We might find what we’ve been searching for Chorus Somewhere wth a light left on When the sky grows cold and dark Someone to rely upon When the wold is out to break your heart Something helps us carry on It’s been with us all the while Somehow find a shining star To guide us down that last long mile.
6.
Waltzing in the twilight Winter sun sinks low A fire warms the shadows Music gently flows A violin bowed softly weeps for yesterday As we waltz the time away While we wait for dawn We will have tonight This old concertina will keep our spirits light If tomorrow brings us sorrow We'll have laughter while we may As we waltz the time away Waltzing the time away Waltzing the time away We waltz the time away It's down to wakes or weddings Where everyone comes in Whirling around the room to a drunken mandolin We hold our loved ones closer We don't let them go astray As we waltz the time away Waltzing the time away Waltzing the time away We waltz the time away Waltzing the time away Waltzing the time away We waltz the time away

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released December 1, 2017

Rawlins Cross is:
Brian Bourne (Chapman Stick, bass, backing vocals, crunch guitar on Can't Get You Out Of My Mind)
Joey Kitson (lead vocals, harmonica)
Ian McKinnon (highland bagpipe, tin whistles, percussion)
Dave Panting (guitars, mandolin, backing vocals)
Geoff Panting (piano accordion, keyboards, backing vocals)
Howie Southwood (drums)

Special guests: Julien Kitson (tenor banjo on Hold You Tonight)
Kevin Eastman (backing vocals on Rock Steady)

Produced by: Jon Landry and Geoff Panting
Recorded by Darren Van Niekerk and Jason Jenkyns at Codapop Studios Halifax NS
Mixed by Darren Van Niekerk
Mastered by Noah Mintz at the Lacquer Channel Mastering Toronto ON
CD Design/ Layout by Jessie Meyer
Photography by Scott Blackburn

Executive Producer: Ian McKinnon, GroundSwell Music

*All songs and arrangements registered SOCAN.

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Rawlins Cross St. John'S, Newfoundland and Labrador

Rawlins Cross are one of Canada’s most accomplished and beloved Celtic rock bands. Since forming in 1989 the band has toured the world, released nine recordings and been honoured with a plethora of East Coast Music Awards and Juno Award nominations.. Band members hail from Newfoundland & Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Ontario. ... more

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