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merlin:

John Doe & Dave Alvin - “See How We Are”

I believe I’d knife a bitch if it bought me three minutes and forty seconds of getting to sing like John Doe.

Owned this on a “Best of ‘The Cutting Edge’” VHS tape in 1988, and 21 years later, it still completely blows my doors off.

This freedom of choice in the U.S.A.
Drives everybody craaaaaa-zy….

I hadn’t heard this version before.  I love the way he says some of those lines, especially the “I wouldn’t trust you as far as I could throw you” line.



Reblogged from kung fu grippe.

September 08, 2009, 11:47am

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    version before. I love the way he says some...those lines, especially the “I wouldn’t...
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