IF IT AIN'T GOT SOUL...

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"Music is an outburst of the soul."

-- Frederick Delius

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lyrics

A walk downtown at midnight
On the Memphis side of town
A bus ride to St. Louis
For that Kansas City sound

Three coins in the fountain
Nine dimes on the wall
Six strings play at supper time
And it's our turn to talk

Sit and watch the river flow
Into the delta blue
Sprung from up the mountain
Down on my New Orleans shoes

If it ain't got soul
I don't even want to know
I wanna hold ya
I wanna squeeze ya
Ooh ya tease me all the time

If it ain't got soul
I don't even want to know
When you come back
I won't hold back
I'm gonna show you that you're mine

Sing it smooth like Joe Tex
Or Otis, or Al Green
Make it move like Marvin
Or Smokey the king
Or a young Aretha Queen

I'm committed to the groove
And I'm the best you've ever seen
I like my coffee black
And I like my money green

Smooth as silky rhythm
Glow like golden chain
I might not know the origins
But I know all the names

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released November 19, 2016
Words and Music by Flood Party with special guests Big Risky and the Second Half
Arranged, performed and produced by
Jason Rowe and Daphna Dove
Recorded live at Fame Studios. Muscle Shoals,, Alabama

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