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Old Uncle Cletus

from The Briars and the Brome by Return To Normal

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It gets a little witchy down in those Hoosier hills.

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I had an old uncle,
my old uncle Cletus
he had a place up on Painter Crick Pike
where he forayed for yellow root
for ginseng and bloodroot
where snapping turtles snooze
and water moccasins strike.

His daddy done drunk hisself dead
before he was born.
My poor uncle Cletus never
laid eyes upon him,
not one time.

But those women down by Celestine
they said that made him special...
like some funny kind of gift,
well, that's the way they saw it,
and those women down by Celestine
ain't the kind you get into a tussle with.

So they brung him up children
with the thrush, or the ague or lame,
the cross-eyed and nervous
mumbling nonsense, but to him
it was all the same.

And they walked together real slow
out to where the spleenworts grow,
don't know what they did out there --
nobody talked about it, that's for sure.
hours pass and they're strolling up the hill,
and like as not, that kid was cured.

Then those Celestine women,
they held hands, said a few words in German
the oldest one wrote something down
in a big leather book with gold binding.

I had an old uncle,
my old uncle Cletus
he had a place up on Painter Crick Pike
Where he forayed for yellow root
ginseng and bloodroot
where snapping turtles doze,
and water moccasins strike.

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from The Briars and the Brome, released September 22, 2015
Written, produced, performed and recorded by Return to Normal, with Bryan Ciliberto sitting in on lead guitar, and Jonas Qvarsebo on drums. Mastered by Jon Huxtable at smallfishrecordings.

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Return to Normal is Corinne and Marty Lucas -- mostly acoustic oriented new folk with a theatrical and storytelling approach, rich tonal blends and a subtle infusion of jazz and soul elements.

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