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Shrug​-​a​-​Lug

from Shrug by The Henrys

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lyrics

Shrug-a-Lug

Don’t look at me like that
from your retro porkpie hat
the little pant cuffs that you tweak like that
I said I’d rather stroke your feral cat

let’s take the car out and ride
you should really see the Great Divide
or at least we can tell our friends out there we tried

there’s this trailer has our name on it
with a kitchen and an oven mitt
drapes and plates and that whole trip
and Mounties on the wall

we could outrun our debt
or did you think of that one yet?
on a mountaintop we’ll place a bet
then do the shrug-a-lug

what’s with this hole we dug
when the ‘hole thing’ ends we shrug?
‘cause shrugging’s how we cope with shit
we sweep it under the rug a bit
then do that shrug-a-lug


the view’s not great back here
through this yellowed Wayfair sheer
can we stop and buy a case of Molson beer
would it kill you to say something dear

credits

from Shrug, released April 7, 2022
music, lyrics, guitars, vocals - Don Rooke
vocals, pump organ - Maggie Keogh
bass, pump organ - Paul Pasmore
drums, percussion - Davide DiRenzo
mix and master - Nik Tjelios
collage: Maggie Keogh

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The Henrys Toronto, Ontario

Toronto Star:

"Old instruments, new sounds’ is the way Rooke describes what The Henrys do - they extract from a resonator guitar and other plucked acoustic instruments the harmonics, overtones and oblique noises behind the rustic notes to create landscapes that are aston­ishingly romantic, frightening, sexual, spiritual - and quite beautiful. Brave new music." ... more

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