From the album: The Moraggots Performing as the Sodermen - based upon an untrue story told to me
lyrics
Born to a Wells in 1949, back in Schallot.
You claimed your ma cleaned their houses,
Your pa watered up their farms.
On a good day he said when he lay in his bed,
In the stink of the mash from last night,
“I never done you no good.”
Thumbing your first ride, Myrtle Beach bound,
Didn’t look back... Until we
worked your way West , unloading freight from trucks,
For cash. Until one day you washed up
with the rest of the wrecks, line up on the west side of Turk Street, their hearts and their feet full of holes.
You missed the draft. To the tax man, you’re gone with the wind.
And the law there in Schallot isn’t looking too hard cuz they know,
That you’re pushing a mop, swabbing floors for a drop,
In the bar of the Irish. You kiss your ma’s picture and wish...
John Robert Carling,
Can you hear your ma call you home?
Where you been all these years,
Off the grid, out of touch and on your own?
John Robert Carling,
Can you hear your ma call you home?
John Robert Carling,
Come on quit your stalling. Come home.
Forty years gone, memories grow kinda slippery I know.
The last time you seen her your ma stood all alone on the porch.
The charmer inside you with fraud in his heart,
Said “Oh ma, I won’t be gone too long. I won’t leave you alone.
I won’t leave you alone.”
John Robert Carling,
Can you hear your ma call you home?
Where you been all these years,
Off the grid, out of touch and on your own?
John Robert Carling,
Can you hear your ma call you home?
John Robert Carling,
Come on quit your stalling. Come home.
credits
from Performing As the Sodermen,
track released June 10, 2008
All words and music by John Mac and the Moraggots. Re-mixed 2/13/12.
A sprawling, 25-song set from Pete Yorn complete with covers of Springsteen and The Smiths capture him at his unguarded best. Bandcamp New & Notable May 16, 2020
Terrifically edgy guitar rock defines the latest from Amos the Kid, funneling country influence through a gritty indie aesthetic. Bandcamp New & Notable May 8, 2023
Killer tunes from teen indie rocker Ollie Cook, who has an ear for a smart riff and an eye for sharply imagistic observation. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 23, 2022
A fascinating bit of bedroom outsider indie, Suchus has crafted nine songs with beguiling melodies and watery layers of guitar. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 23, 2022
Awash in homespun sonics and simple, effective melodies, the debut record by Melbourne's Grand Pine is a folk pop lover's delight. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 29, 2021