Name: Set Your Children Free
Description: Set Your Children Free was written, performed and recorded by Paul Fogarty as a home demo in May of 2009.

Set Your Children Free

by Paul Fogarty

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Set Your Children Free was written, performed and recorded by Paul Fogarty as a home demo in May of 2009.

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I saw the old man, he had a gun in his hand, his head was too big to blow
He looked at me like he never could see none of his blood in my blood flow, none of his blood in my blood flow,
Momma she cursed, she said it's all for the worst, no matter what the worst might be,
she wrung my neck, baby, just for the heck, she left me hanging off the old oak tree, she left me hanging off the old oak tree....
well love don't flow like the river don't flow and it's all the same to me, love don't flow like the river don't flow you got to set your children free... you got to set your children free...
Sister she cried like a part of her died, but she cut me down in between her sobs, she said it's OK if I just up and runned away just to save what ain't been robbed, just to save what ain't yet been robbed...

I wonder now and then if I will ever see you again, my head is too big to blow, the way you looked at me under the old oak tree and your eyes cried "please don't go!" and your eyes cried "please don't go!"

Love don't flow like the river don't flow and it's all the same to me, love don't flow like the river don't flow you got to set your children free... you got to set your children free...
... one thing you do you got to set your children free...

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released May 9, 2009
Paul Fogarty on vocals, guitar, drums and bass programming, synths and piano programming, harmony vocals. Song written by Paul Fogarty.

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Paul Fogarty Tewantin, Australia

Born and raised in the Australian bush Paul Fogarty had plenty of time to kick his creative engines into overdrive.
"You could go weeks without anything happening at all," he says.
Fogarty made up for the emptiness with a creative drive that has produced more than 2000 songs. He plays lap slide, acoustic guitar, piano, harmonica and plays live concerts in Australia/ Europe. www.paulfogarty.one ... more

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