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Delia

from Pretty Simple by Jim Page

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    13 track solo acoustic. 4 panel wallet, inside photos. Cover & inside left photos by Elizabeth Carpenter, inside right at session in Doolin, Eire, by Katy Keenan. Back photo busking at Pike Place Market Street Fair 1972.

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Traditional American folk song, the Willie McTell version, the JP arrangement. This is a true story, Delia and Cooney were both 14 years old.

lyrics

delia was a gambler
gambled all around
delia was a gamblin’ girl
she laid her money down

she’s all i’ve got
is gone

delia’s poor mother
took a little trip out west
when she got home
little delia had gone to rest

delia’s mother weeped
delia’s father moaned
wouldn’t have been so hard
if our child had died at home

delia, oh delia
how can it be
you love those rounders
but you don’t love me

cooney looking high
cooney lookin’ low
shot poor delia down
with a 44

cooney says to the judge
“what’ll be my fine”
judge says, “poor boy
you get 99”

high up on a roof top
far as I can see
lookin’ at those rounders
lookin’ back at me

cooney’s in a jail cell
drinkin’ from an old tin cup
delia’s in the graveyard
she won’t ever wake up

delia, oh delia
how can it be
you love those rounders
but you don’t love me

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from Pretty Simple, released January 23, 2020
Traditional, arranged J Page

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Jim Page Seattle, Washington

Named by Seattle Metropolitan Magazine as “One Of The 50 Most Influential Musicians In Seattle History.” Originally from California Page has called Seattle and the Pacific Northwest “home” since 1971. Songs covered by The Doobie Brothers, Christy Moore, Dick Gaughan, Michael Hedges, and Roy Bailey. Utah Phillips: “If you’re ever going to get the message, this is the messenger to get it from.” ... more

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