Name: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead - alternate version
Duration: P00H03M52S
Description: This version of this song, initially titled 'May You Get to Heaven' was the version originally slated to be on the Before Tonight album. Late in the game, Scott opted for the slower version, which included Jess Rae on vocals and Rusty Robot on trumpet.

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead - alternate version

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This version of this song, initially titled 'May You Get to Heaven' was the version originally slated to be on the Before Tonight album. Late in the game, Scott opted for the slower version, which included Jess Rae on vocals and Rusty Robot on trumpet.

lyrics

We sang of the old canal
and the whiskey in our blood
a chorus for my people
The Murphy’s and the Stubbs
before you go off guns a blazing
sing a song instead
may you get to heaven before the devil knows you’re dead

My father left the Eastside
on the Sumac street car
rode it from Brown Derby to the Zanzibar
grandad was the steward when the steel workers said
may you get to heaven before the devil knows you’re dead

Patrick was a tough kid from the wrong side of the tracks
Grandma ran a Becker's Milk with a monkey on her back
before the judge's gavel fell
he just shook his head
may you get to heaven before the devil knows you’re dead

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released February 29, 2024
Recorded at the Song Shop in Winnipeg (October 2022)

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jamie Sitar
Produced by Scott Nolan
Music and Lyrics by Scott Nolan

Scott Nolan: guitar, vocals, drums, vibraphone, piano
Paul Balcain: saxophone, vocals
Chris Dunn: electric guitar, vocals
Glenn Buhr: piano, vibraphone
Gilles Fournier: double bass, vocals
Joanna Miller: drums, vocals

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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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