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A fictional song about a boxer's rise to minor fame and his downfall.
The first of two banjo tracks on this EP.

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Sitting in a graveyard he rests against the stone
Of his daddy now departed to where a boxer's spirit roams
Memories come flooding back of every fight he'd won
Sitting there he sheds a tear for a father from his son
For Slaughter

Well they called his daddy slaughter in the stories they would tell
how he'd come out of his corner like a demon coming out of hell
And he never heard the bell once to mark the end of the third round
'Cos by the time he'd hit them half a dozen times they'd be laying on the ground

Slaughter got his nickname when the fair had come to town
He fought the fairground champion and in the second put him down
With fists that hit like hammers the fighting soon was done
And the crowd went wild and cheered and roared because the local boy had won
They called him Slaughter

Then the towns and halls and rings and bellsbecame the only life he
knew
He trained and sparred and fought and won and always kept his cool
And he never done nobody wrong except to hurt them in the ring
'Cos when the first punch found the distance and second one would sting

And he courted, married, had a kid who loved to watch each night
The boy would sit there ringside for the duration of the fight
As the years went by the fights grew hard but he retired at the top
And then late one night in a bar room fight Slaughter's life was stopped
Poor Slaughter

Sitting in a graveyard he rests against the stone
Of his daddy now departed to where a boxer's spirit roams
Memories come flooding back of every fight he'd won
But the round that put him down came from the barrel of a gun
For Slaughter
Poor Slaughter
Oh oh Slaughter
Oh Slaughter

credits

from THE DEVIL'S CALLING EP, released March 4, 2021
Stevie Simpson - Vocals, Banjo
Damon Sawyer - Drums, Percussion
Sebastien Danczak - Sousaphone
Andy Iddiols - Keyboards

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STEViE - One Bloke One Mandolin Coventry, UK

Having toured and performed at festivals around Europe with Kane & Co. and Cactus Jack and also gigging and recording in the US in the late 90s into the early 2000s, nowadays he performs as Stevie Simpson (One Bloke One Mandolin) playing original country, folk and americana songs.

Stevie has seven studio albums to his name, his latest being Sunshine State Of Mind released in October 2021. ... more

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