Lyrics
Your dad's old Bailey No. 5 is still on my bench,
From the night we tried squaring that fence in the trench.
The steel's gone all hazy, the rosewood is cracked,
Like a promise we made and could never take back.
[Chorus]
But I got a new plan, I drew it up late last night,
Underneath the dim flicker of one bare bulb light.
We'll mend this damn thing with some glue and some time,
Find a half-inch of true on a new chalk-line.
[Verse 2]
I saw your brother at the Sinclair last week,
Said you're sandin' down floors for a price you can't speak.
He said, "Man, you should call him," like it's just that damn easy,
When the air's full of splinters and the silence is greasy.
[Chorus]
But I got a new plan, I drew it up late last night,
Underneath the dim flicker of one bare bulb light.
We'll mend this damn thing with some glue and some time,
Find a half-inch of true on a new chalk-line.
[Bridge]
(Rhythmic breakdown: kick drum, stick-clicks, and vocal only)
No varnish. No stain.
Just the sound of two hammers in a hard-coming rain.
[Outro]
It's your cut, my measure.
Pick up the damn line.
About Hank Wyatt
Hank Wyatt learned to play guitar in a quiet bedroom overlooking a persimmon orchard, on the Oklahoma farm his Japanese-American grandparents started after the war. He spent his childhood split between two houses, becoming a quiet observer and a student of mending things—first fences, then guitars, then people. His honky-tonk songs, written from the back rooms of Tulsa dive bars where he still…
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