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The Gypsy in Me

from The Ego Has Landed by Phil Nice

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If you think there's something familiar in the lyric, it's because this number is based on a quotation from the classic jazz standard "Embraceable You" by George and Ira Gershwin. The line put me in mind of a scenario akin to the film "City Slickers," where urbanites meet the wild west. In my version of the scenario it's more like a bank manager or insurance dude meeting his dream girl in hillbilly country over a few spliffs. MC gives it just the right wide eyed passion.

Trivia: Like "These Shoes," this track features my very first home built guitar from 2013, the fretless, or "cellotar" as I called it back then.

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And when I listen to that song
You’re humming as you walk along
And hear the way you’ve got the beat
Like it’s living in your feet
That brings out the gypsy in me
I wanna get you on that floor
Amongst the sawdust and the straw
And swing you round until we’re done
We melt together till we’re one
Oh, it brings out the gypsy in me

Wanna dance and sing and swim in the sea
Without a stitch upon my bones
Away with every trace of melancholy
I’ve never been so at home, so far from home
Miles from stress and telephones

When you light that joint and pass it round
It’s like I never lived in town
And to the pleasure of your tones
Forget my mortgage and my loans
That brings out the gypsy in me

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from The Ego Has Landed, released August 6, 2017
Guest vocalist: M.C. Hansen

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