Patches
New original, acoustic album by Shawn Rohlf Release date Tuesday, October 20th!
Album Credits
Produced by Shawn Rohlf
Recorded and mixed by Shawn Rohlf at House of Burlap except;
track 11 recorded and mixed by Ben Hasdovic at Studio West.
Track 13 recorded by Ben Hasdovic at Studio West
Track 15 recorded by Cedrick Courtois at Studio West
Mastered by Robb Robinson at Robinson Mastering
Cover art painting by Shawn Rohlf
Cover photography by Hogan Rohlf
Graphic art and design by Laurel Rohlf
All songs written by Shawn Rohlf ; except for Coming Up Close written by Aimee Man
1. Irish Goodbye - (3:04)
Shawn Rohlf – guitar, banjo, vocals
Doug Walker – upright bass
Colin Tedeschi – backing vocals
2. Old Man Miss - (3:12)
Shawn Rohlf – dobro guitar, harmonica, vocals
Colin Tedeschi and Doug Walker – backing vocals
3. Over the Country - (1:36)
Shawn Rohlf – guitar, banjo
Doug Walker – upright bass
4. Coming Up Close - (4:04)
Shawn Rohlf – guitars, acoustic bass, drums, ukulele, vocals
Melissa Harley Dow - violin
Colin Tedeschi – backing vocals
5. Dog Days of Summer - (2:56)
Shawn Rohlf – guitar, banjo, vocals
Melissa Harley Dow – violins, viola
Doug Walker – upright bass, backing vocals
Colin Tedeschi – backing vocals
6. Twang in My Heartstrings - (3:27)
Shawn Rohlf – dobro guitar, lead vocals
Doug Walker – upright bass
7. Love to Think About You - (2:46)
Shawn Rohlf – guitar, mandolin, vocals
Melissa Harley Dow – violin
Doug Walker – upright bass
8. Bennington Grove - (1:08)
Shawn Rohlf – baritone guitar, banjo
9. Aberdeen to Adelaide - (3:15)
Shawn Rohlf – guitar, banjo, mandolin, vocals
Melissa Harley Dow – fiddle
Doug Walker – upright bass, backing vocals
Colin Tedeschi – backing vocals
10. Momma’s Always Hungry - (3:55)
Shawn Rohlf – dobro guitar, harmonica, vocals
11. Stanley - (3:55)
Shawn Rohlf – guitar, harmonica, vocals
Mark Danisovsky – accordion
Ken Dow – upright bass, backing vocals
12. Break it Down Cindy - (2:49)
Shawn Rohlf – banjo, dobro, percussion, vocals
Doug Walker – upright bass, backing vocals
Colin Tedeschi – backing vocals
13. At the Fair - (2:30)
Shawn Rohlf – piano, melodica, percussion, vocals
Mark Danisovsky – accordion
14. Patches - (4:01)
Shawn Rohlf – baritone guitar, dobro, harmonica, vocals
Colin Tedeschi – backing vocals
15. Moon Song - (2:25)
Shawn Rohlf – guitar
Steve Peavey – dobro
Melissa Harley Dow – violin
Doug Walker – upright bass
Song Lyrics
Irish Goodbye
You rode in on the sun
And disappeared with the cold
I knew your time was done
At the first slight hint of snow
You tucked yourself away
For the holidays
When the bells start ringing
MacGowan is singing on high
I’ll just tell ‘em you bid ‘em farewell, with an Irish Goodbye
Hard to give it away
It's hard to leave it alone
Even harder to stay
When the thoughts are not your own
And it’s all on display
But that aint how you pray
When the bells start to ringing
MacGowan is singing on high
If they ask I’ll just tell ‘em, you bid ‘em an Irish Goodbye
I’m on your side
I think you’ve always known
That it’s safe to hide
Cuz you’ll never be alone
I’ve seen it in your eyes
I can read the pain
When the bells start ringing
And MacGowan is sings Galway bay
Just bid ‘em an Irish Goodbye and be on your way
Coming Up Close by Aimee Mann
One night in Iowa
She and I in a borrowed car
Went driving in the summer
Promises in every star
Out in the distance
I could hear some people laughing
I felt my heart beat back
A weekend's worth of sadness
There was a farmhouse
That had long since been deserted
We stopped and carved our hearts
Into the wooden surface
We thought just for an instant
We could see the future
We thought for once we knew
What really was important
Coming up close
Everything sounds like welcome home
Come home, and oh, by the way
Don't you know that I could make
A dream that's barely half-awake come true
I wanted to say
But anything I could have said
I felt somehow that you already knew
We got back in the car
And listened to a Dylan tape
We drove around the fields
Until it started getting late
And I went back to
My hotel room on the highway
And she just got back
In her car and drove away
Coming up close
Everything sounds like welcome home
Come home, and oh, by the way
Don't you know that I could make
A dream that's barely half-awake come true
I wanted to say
But anything I could have said
I felt somehow that you already knew
Coming up close
Everything sounds like welcome home
Come home
Coming up close
Everything sounds like welcome home
Come home, come on home
Twang in My Heartstrings
The twang in my heartstrings
Strikes a chord
Sings like a sparrow
Cuts like a sword
This twang in my heartstrings
Strikes a nerve
Who is your master?
Who do you serve?
Born in a juke box
In some old honky tonk
Always a comfort
Sometimes a curse
That high and lonesome sound
Keeps on ringing out
As the world keeps spinning out
From bad to worse
This twang in my heartstrings
Pays its dues
To the tunes of the Irish
Steeped in the blues
This twang in my heartstrings
Knows no bounds
A tone of many colors
And a rainbow of sounds
Born in a juke box
In some old honky tonk
Always a comfort
Sometimes a curse
That high and lonesome sound
Keeps on ringing out
As the world keeps spinning out
From bad to worse
This twang in my heartstrings
Is all I hear
The words of Pete and Woody
Have never been so clear
The twang in my heartstrings
Never dies
Only bends louder
When I close my eyes
Born in a juke box
In some old honky tonk
Always a comfort
Sometimes a curse
That high and lonesome sound
Keeps on ringing out
As the world keeps spinning out
From bad to worse
Aberdeen to Adelaide
Aberdeen to Adelaide
We’ll come rolling down your streets
Like some drunken parade
Adelaide to Aberdeen
Just a notion
And a couple a little oceans between
We’ll find the nearest pub
And have ourselve’s a sing
Soon the fiddle starts a tune
And you’ll hear that banjo ring
Listen to the story
She’s a tidy little tale
And you’ll know quite soon
That we never caught that whale
Halifax to Portland Maine
We’re a half past wasted and a quarter insane
Portland Maine to Halifax
We sail the seven seas just to cover our tracks
If whiskey is the devil
Then hell don’t seem so bad
If a pint of ale is mother’s milk
I’ll surely thank my Dad
I never drink water
It always seemed to me
It's nothing but a gateway drink to sobriety
Aberdeen to Adelaide
We’ll come rolling down your streets
Like some drunken parade
Adelaide to Aberdeen
With just a notion
And a couple little oceans between
Galway Bay to Galveston
Another trip around the sun
And we’re still having fun
Galveston to Galway Bay
Hit the deck, set the sails
And she’s anchors aweigh
Aberdeen to Adelaide
We’ll come stumbling through your town
Like some drunken parade
Adelaide to Aberdeen
With just a notion
And a couple little oceans between
Aberdeen to Adelaide
Stanley
I hear the eerie tunes of a skeleton
In the closet all night
Sounds like he's popping balloons with a pellet gun
And he laughs with delight
I lie in ruins in this cheap motel room
Haunted by the deeds been done
Six long years since I've been back to Georgia
Where I come from
All the live long
All the live long
All the live long yesterday
Popping rivets
Into bridges
Passing my young life away
You've done your time and you seem okay
So Stanley we're setting you free today
And a siren echoed across the city
Now I've waited for this day to come
For what seems like a small eternity
When I'd be free to walk these streets
And go home to see my family
Now it's here but I'm soaked with fear
And feeling strange because everything has changed
I only want to hide since my Momma died
Last year
All the live long
All the live long
All the live long yesterday
Hard labor
On the Yadkin River
Passing my young life away
You've done your time and you seem okay
So Stanley we're setting you free today
And a siren echoed across the city
As a siren screamed across the city
At the Fair
Just before dawn
Sneaking back from the carnival
Long since yesterday
Been messing around
Cotton candy melted
Like little pink icicles
As a mid summer rain
Came pouring down
Lightning danced
Around the Ferris Wheel
You and I
Stuck swinging at the top
The carnies and roustabouts
Ran for the beer tent
Praying the rain wouldn't stop
Just after dusk
We snuck off of the midway
To a field of corn
At the edge of the lot
I closed my eyes
To my own little fireworks display
As your lips touched mine
In the dark
Where we never would be caught
Cracker Jack and snow cone dreams
T shirts boast rock stars and favorite teams
And I still recall
The smell of your hair
Johnny's too long at the fair
Old Man Miss
Old man river
Keep me company
Lying on your grassy banks
Life is but a dream
Won't you keep me company
Ancient waters
Many miles you flow
The shores of Lake Itasca
To the Gulf of Mexico
There you go
so many miles you flow
Roll on
Roll on
Trouble floats down stream
And soon be gone
Swirling river
I listen to you sing
I hear your blues in Memphis
Your jazz in New Orleans
I just love to hear you sing
Cool, cool water
Purify my soul
Jumpin’ off the oak tree
In my favorite swimming hole
Here we go
Cool down my soul
Roll on
Roll on
Troubles float down stream
And soon be gone
Old man river
Mighty Mississip
Gonna build a wooden raft
And take a little trip
That's what I'll do
Take a little trip
Dog Days of Summer
It’s a hell of a story
Except for the end
With a nice little tune
Still I cannot pretend
I’d loved it more now
Had I heard it back then
And these dog days of summer
Go on longer and longer
Each year
Keep the bugs off the baby
Keep an eye on the flock
There’s a watermelon cooling
In the lake by the dock
As we drip to a crawl
Like the afternoon clock
These dog days of summer
Go on longer and longer
Each year
Sirius rising
Hand in hand with the sun
And a whole lot of nothing
Will get done
It’s the top of seventh
And the bottom of my cup
Is empty and sad
And the home team gave up
I remember that Dog Star
As just a wee pup
And these dog days of summer
Go on longer and longer
Each year
If I were a rich man
I’d buy us some shade
We could sit and drink cocktails
And watch a parade
Instead of being help captive
By the burning, hot blade
Of these dog days of summer
Go on longer and longer
Each year
Love to Think About You
The evening sun is done and gone
Stars are sprinkling dew
I can tell by where my mind is going
I’m gonna think about you
There aint an airplane in the sky
Cars have vanished too
A smile on my lips is what I really miss
I'm gonna think about you
What did I say, back when I was brave?
We will make it through
Now like it or not
We all have got
Some slow downing to do
A good ole phone call does it all
No more facetime or zoom
The laughs are loud and the tales are tall
When I think about you
Nowadays the smaller spaces
Make for a bigger world
We’ll take what we can
What else can we do?
I'm gonna think about you
What did I say, back when I was brave?
We will make it through
Now like it or not
We all have got
Some slow downing to do
The evening sun is done and gone
Stars are sprinkling dew
Like a big old salt shaker in my eyes
I'm gonna think about you
I love to think about you
Momma's Always Hungry
Momma’s always hungry,
And ye shall not ignore
Cuz you aint heard nothing
Like a hungry momma roar
Momma roar
Like a hungry momma roar
Daddy’s always ornry
From morning sun til noon
He mumbles, grumbles and guffas
He's like some old cartoon
He’s looney tunes
Like Popeye in some black and white cartoon
Momma’s always hungry
If just for hungers sake
With cubs a wrassling in the den
Momma needs a break
She needs a break
So get your dirty paws out of the cake
Daddy’s always ornry
He's gonna let his hammer ring
His hide is chaffed, wrongs been rubbed
He’s pissed about everything
Everything
Gonna let his hammer ring
Momma’s always hungry
And hunger is a sin
So if she wraps upon your door
You’d a better let her in
Better let her in
You sure as hell better let her in
Daddy’s always ornry
Doesn’t seem to have much fun
If two’s company and three’s a crowd
He’s just as soon stick to one
Stick to one
No better companion than one
Momma’s always hungry
And there’s nothing left to chew
You better watch your step
She’ll take a big bite out of you
That’s what she’ll do
Gonna take a big bite out of you
Momma’s always hungry
And the kids all clear the way
Cuz a hungry Momma and an ornry Daddy
Add up to one helluva day
It's a helluva day
Listen to what I have to say
Break it Down Cindy
Lay it all down
Darling Cindy
Lay it all out
What you got to say
Lay it all down
Cindy, Cindy
Let em know
There’s hell to pay
Break it on down
It’s getting windy
Take it on down
For it blows away
Break it on down
Won’t you Cindy
You done all you can do today
Lay it all down
Darling Cindy
Lay it all out
What you got to say
Lay it all down
Cindy, Cindy
Let em know
There’s hell to pay
Take it to town
Wagons waiting
Strap it on down
Haul away
Take it to town
Daylights fading
You carry the load of a better way
Lay it all down
Darling Cindy
Lay it all out
What you got to say
Lay it all down
Cindy, Cindy
Let em know
There’s hell to pay
The hole in your soul
Won’t heal over night
It’s taken its toll
Now you stand and fight
Ya got every right
Bring it on down
Fire line's waiting
Pass it along
Bucket brigade
Dousing down
Flames of hatred
Telling em straight
It ain’t okay
Lay it all down
Darling Cindy
Lay it all out
What you got to say
Lay it all down
Cindy, Cindy
Let em know
There’s hell to pay
Patches
Patches on your raincoat
But the leaks don’t feel the same
It’s a different kind of rain than we’ve seen
Wonder what it means
Frosting less cupcake
Like water without a fish
Ketchup packets in a candy dish
In spite
Don’t seem right
Wolves are howling
Frozen holy
Time is calling
And closing in on me
Cry for the broken hearted
Try because you care
Why don’t we get things started again
How long it’s been
Since falling down your stairs
Hard to get inside
Can’t penetrate the wall
Like a seagull pecking a tennis ball
In vain
Fooled again
I’m just a beholder
Hoping that you’ll try
To see it through my eyes
And for those
Born without a size
Wolves are howling
Frozen holy
Time is calling
And closing in on me
Cry for the broken hearted
Try because you care
Why don’t we get things started again
How long it’s been
Since falling down your stairs
Blame tomorrow
On the sunrise
Endless nights spinning
Counterclockwise
We got lucky
You and I
We showed up late
And got out just in time
Wolves are howling
Frozen holy
Time is calling
And closing in on me
Cry for the broken hearted
Try because you care
Why don’t we get things started again
How long it’s been
Since falling down your stairs
Down your stairs