DESCRIPTION:
"Grampa Carl" is the first single from The Warped 45s sophomore album "Matador Sunset" on Pheromone Recordings available in stores and iTunes May 31, 2011.



http://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/matador-sunset/id435671729

LYRICS

Prohibition officially began on January 16th, 1920 when the Volstead act passed through congress to enforce the 18th Amendment
One reporter was quoted as saying "the U.S. will be as dry as the Mississippi mudflats at low-tide"... Boy was he wrong

Carl made his money fast playing Faro and five card draw
And he pumped all of that money into demon alcohol
They say Al Capone made 100 million dollars each and every year
Selling bootlegged Canadian whisky and his own "Log Cabin" beer
Even Carl had two brand new Buicks the boys back home could only adore
And by '23 he had a house as big as Henry Ford's

The purple's ran that river and everything east of the 31
So don't you dare go alone out there without a fast boat and a gun
But Carl could earn in a week what a good fisherman could earn in a year
So he kept on running that whiskey and he kept on running that beer
It's just a mile across that water and it's the same thing coming back
But even Al Capone left that river alone he was smart enough /way to smart for that

Chorus
Grampa Carl Kennedy, you take those bottles down
Across that Detroit River boy and don't you make a sound
If the coast guard catches up to you, you set that boat ablaze
And hope to hell that you don't drown in those frozen Erie waves

Ole Carl was just providing a service-he wasn't hurting anyone
But Gracey T. would disagree, as she'd lie awake alone
And listen to the speedboats and the bullets and the lies
And dream of Hastings county and the simple country life
So when Carl lost it all in one big deal that went mean
They moved back to Hastings County where the rivers wash you clean

Chorus

I'm reminded of something my grandpa said to me when I was just a kid
He said, "Just b/c someone says something's wrong doesn't mean that it always is"
They buried old Carl's body in 1963
In the yard of the Carlow Township United Presbyterian Cemetery