Name: Ballad of a Stranger
Duration: P00H03M10S
Description: For my Okie friends, with love. This recording was an outtake from the Montgomery Eldorado sessions.

Ballad of a Stranger

by Scott Nolan

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For my Okie friends, with love. This recording was an outtake from the Montgomery Eldorado sessions.

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Ballad of a Stranger

Kansas City all messed up
need me to leave right now come and pick you up
I’m in Oklahoma its too hot to move
tried you back and could’t get through

he’s the top down in the rain
he’s the gamble, he’s the risk
sometimes its just easier when you’ve got less to lose
got to be something better than this

{everywhere i go there’s diamonds, diamonds
watch where you step, there’s copperheads too
sometimes the answer is hiding
Ballad of a stranger just passing through}

a blue Harley Davidson, an honest mistake
new romance and Sunday cake
hotel lobby with the revolving doors
and that lonesome feeling like I’d been there before

he’s a river he’s a lake
it was never his heart to break
standing in the rain making laughter out of pain
wondering how the hell I’m gonna get out of here

{everywhere i go there’s diamonds, diamonds
watch where you step, there’s copperheads too
sometimes the answer is hiding
Ballad of a stranger just passing through}

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released May 10, 2020
Produced by James Creasey and Scott Nolan
Keri Latimer - vocal
Paul Balcain - Saxophone

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Scott Nolan Winnipeg, Manitoba

Scott Nolan is a songwriter, poet, multi instrumentalist and visual artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba Treaty One Territory.

His songs have been recorded by Hayes Carll, Mary Gauthier, Watermelon Slim, Corin Raymond, and Stephen Fearing among others.

He has recently produced albums for William Prince, Lynne Hanson, Adam Carroll, and Ben De La Cour. ... more

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