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James and Donna Dancing

from A Man Could Get Tired and Other Songs by Ryan Sutter

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This is an oldie, written in 2000 and recorded in 2005. It is about an actual night hanging out at The Cavern Club in Liverpool with an actual couple named James and Donna and their kids, one of whom was a daughter who was a dead ringer for Meryl Streep.

Recorded in 2005, previously released on "Songs of Bo Redoubt".

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your eyes betrayed the fear that went around inside your head
when you thought he might be dead inside the cavern
in the cavern
while James and Donna danced and sang and Meryl Streep held court
you were such a lovely sport inside the cavern
in the cavern

the world moved in slow motion and it made me start to see
that this somewhere was an everywhere for me
a thousand people danced and sang the songs they all had known
this was everybody's home

you were drinking pints of cider while the Professor sang Swing Low
if he's dead what a way to go inside the cavern
in the cavern
when we left at 10:30 all was fine no one had died
we had simply had a ride inside the cavern
in the cavern

the world moved in slow motion and it made me start to see
that this somewhere was an everywhere for me
a thousand people danced and sang the songs they all had known
this was everybody's home

your eyes betrayed the fear that went around inside your head
when you thought he might be dead inside the cavern
in the cavern
in the cavern
in the cavern
in the cavern

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from A Man Could Get Tired and Other Songs, released July 20, 2013
Performed, produced and engineered by Ryan Sutter. Written by Ryan Sutter except for the "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" intro which was written by Wallis Willis sometime before 1862.

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Ryan Sutter Hugo, Minnesota

Minnesota-based singer-songwriter formerly of The Lavone, Trumpet Marine and Nuclear Gopher Records.

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