Name: Ira Clyde's Impala
Duration: P00H05M28S
Description: from the Bryan Hartley Industries SXSW 2011 Demo... recorded by Jessica Jones...

Ira Clyde's Impala

by Bryan Hartley Industries

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from the Bryan Hartley Industries SXSW 2011 Demo... recorded by Jessica Jones...

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Left Lafayette County heading for Louisiana
We were after lunch in leaving
Cause we all got drunk last night
I’m glad I was a Christian and I’d asked my Lord’s forgiveness
He delivered me to heaven
In a ray of blazing light
Now my life is just a memory
My life is just a memory
Somewhere in my darling’s eyes

Ellen was my darling and I guess we planned to marry
I had spent up all of my money
But she loved me just the same
Her mom and dad were Catholic and my people wouldn’t have it
So we talked about New Orleans
And a life down there to claim
We’d start a band there
She’d write a novel
We’d live happily ever after
And we could make love all the time

We hit the Lakeside Grocery
And we got some Cokes for mixing
And we sang a song together
Take us out of Harmontown
We were way up on this highway
When this car came up behind me
Just some kids from Marshall County that I’d known from time to time
We started racing
We started racing and the night was coming on

I had a new Impala
Super Sport is what you called it
And it had a big block motor, yeah the fastest thing around
They knew they couldn’t beat me
No, I think they liked to see me
Gun that motor up to ninety or a hundred maybe more
Ellen didn’t like it
She started crying
Said “Ira Clyde slow this thing down”

My daddy was a hunter but I never liked the killing
But sometimes I’d go with him
Pass the bottle in the woods
The stories that he told me
The love he tried to show me
If I’d have got much older I may have understood
But the deer there on the highway
It came crashing through the trees there
And my Impala ran him down
See, I always was a driver
And the road was where you found me
In the cafes and the truck stops men were talking about my skills
I bet they’re down at Jackson’s and coffee’s what they’re having
And I bet that they’re all talking about the day they found me killed
And the belt that saved poor Ellen
As I went roaring off to Heaven
And the Big Block Motor Sound

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released October 2, 2013
BH - Vocals and Rhythm Guitar
Jessica Jones - Drums
John Paul Shaffer - Lead Guitar
Jon Hart - Bass
Dirk Kitterlin - Keyboards

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