Biography:
Jeffrey Foucault (born January 1976 in Janesville, Wisconsin) is an American singer-songwriter grown out of the americana/folk troubadour tradition. Foucault's musical career was seeded at seventeen, when he began playing John Prine tunes on his father's beat up mail-order guitar, and spent long evenings in his bedroom, spinning piles of old records on a hand-me-down turntable. When he was 18 he stole a copy of Townes Van Zandt: Live and Obscure from a friend
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Other songs:
- 4 20 Blues
- Appeline
- Ballad Of Copper Junction A Journeymans Lament
- Battle Hymn
- City Flower
- Cold Satellite
- Cross Of The Flowers
- Des Moines
- Deserters Information Center
- Dont Look For Me
- Doubletree
- Dove And The Waterline
- Everybodys Famous
- Far From Me
- Geese Fly By
- Ghost Repeater
- Goners Most
- He Was In Heaven Before He Died
- Heart To The Husk
- Hello In There
- Hurricane Lamp
- I Dream An Old Lover
- I Love You And You Are A Fool
- Idaho
- Jesus Will Fix It For You
- Lodi
- Mesa Arizona
- Northbound 35
- Nothing I Wouldnt Do Except Stay
- One Part Love
- Paradise
- Passerines
- Pearl Handled Pistol
- Pretty Girl In A Small Town
- Slow Talker
- Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness
- Starlight And Static
- Street Light Halos
- Stripping Cane
- Sunrise In The Rearview
- Train To Jackson
- Unwed Fathers
- Walking At Dusk
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[Verse 1]
G Am D G
We had an apartment in the city
Am D Bm
Me and Loretta liked living there
C
It's been years since the kids have grown
G D G
Oh, lives of their own, they left us alone
[Verse 2]
Am D G
John and Linda live in Omaha
Am D Bm
Joe is somewhere on the road
C
We lost Davy in the Korean war
G D F
And I still don't know what for, guess it doesn't matter anymore
[Chorus]
G
We know old trees just grow stronger
F G
Old rivers grow wilder every day
Bm C
But old people just grow lonesome
G D G
Waiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello"
[Interlude]
G Am D G Am D G
[Verse 3]
Am D G
Me and Loretta we don't talk much more
Am D
She just sits, stares through the back door screen
Bm C
And all the news just repeats itself
G D G
Like some forgotten dream that we've both seen
[Verse 4]
Am D G
Someday I'll go and call up Rudy
Am D Bm
We worked together at the factory
C
But what'll I tell him if asks what's new
G D F
I'd say, "Nothing, what's with you? There ain't much left to do"
[Chorus]
G
We know old trees just grow stronger
F G
Old rivers grow wilder every day
Bm C
But old people just grow lonesome
G D G
Waiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello"
[Interlude]
G Am D G Am D G
[Verse 5]
Am D G
So, if you're walking down the street sometime
Am D
And spot some hollow ancient eyes
Bm C
Please don't just pass them by and stare
G D
As if you didn't care, say, "Hello in there"
G Am D
Say, "Hello"
G Am D
Say, "Hello"
G Am D
Say, "Hello"
G Am D G
Say, "Hello"
G Am D G
We had an apartment in the city
Am D Bm
Me and Loretta liked living there
C
It's been years since the kids have grown
G D G
Oh, lives of their own, they left us alone
[Verse 2]
Am D G
John and Linda live in Omaha
Am D Bm
Joe is somewhere on the road
C
We lost Davy in the Korean war
G D F
And I still don't know what for, guess it doesn't matter anymore
[Chorus]
G
We know old trees just grow stronger
F G
Old rivers grow wilder every day
Bm C
But old people just grow lonesome
G D G
Waiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello"
[Interlude]
G Am D G Am D G
[Verse 3]
Am D G
Me and Loretta we don't talk much more
Am D
She just sits, stares through the back door screen
Bm C
And all the news just repeats itself
G D G
Like some forgotten dream that we've both seen
[Verse 4]
Am D G
Someday I'll go and call up Rudy
Am D Bm
We worked together at the factory
C
But what'll I tell him if asks what's new
G D F
I'd say, "Nothing, what's with you? There ain't much left to do"
[Chorus]
G
We know old trees just grow stronger
F G
Old rivers grow wilder every day
Bm C
But old people just grow lonesome
G D G
Waiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello"
[Interlude]
G Am D G Am D G
[Verse 5]
Am D G
So, if you're walking down the street sometime
Am D
And spot some hollow ancient eyes
Bm C
Please don't just pass them by and stare
G D
As if you didn't care, say, "Hello in there"
G Am D
Say, "Hello"
G Am D
Say, "Hello"
G Am D
Say, "Hello"
G Am D G
Say, "Hello"
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