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Owed to Roberta Green [Clean]

by Barnes Cogswell

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My newest single, 'Owed to Roberta Green,' is a romp through trailer livin' and small town upset. I hope this encourages Ms. Green to send remittance in full for my fixin' the damn roof.

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Roberta

90 days delinquent, but I'm still a dang good tenant
Fixed the roof, took off the rent my labor fee
Got a letter says
"Dear Mister, vacate by the date listed.
Take your items leave the trailer broom clean"
She kicked us out in the dead of October
Had to move a county over
The college students took the housing for the working man
Well, I hate her more than Clinton
Every check I've never written
Been paid to the order of Roberta Green

Roberta,
You've hurt us
Ms. Green you've no conscience
She don't care for poor folks
'bout the meanest you ever seen
When you don't pay what you
Owe to Roberta Green

Now she's gone messed with history
And it ain't no kind of mystery
We all hope her mansion slides right off the hill
'Cuz she's no more than a slum lord
I'd like to give her what for
And cuss her name in every public forum
How 'bout instead of hangin' banners
She should learn some goddang manners
All the good folks of Dahlonega sing along

Roberta,
You've hurt us
Ms. Green you've no conscience
You've got pow'r and money
Pow'r and money won't make you clean
What more do you think you're owed
Roberta Green?
Roberta,
You've hurt us
Ms. Green you've no conscience
You've got pow'r and money
Pow'r and money wont make you clean
It just made you mean
Roberta Green
It just made you mean
Roberta Green

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released February 23, 2017
Barnes Cogswell - lyrics, guitar

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Barnes Cogswell Clarkesville, Georgia

Barnes Cogswell has been described as "bearded" and "admittedly a little odd," but his folksy minimalist style has taken him across the nation. His 'Signs' project was awarded the 2010 Eastern-Indigo Award. More recently, he's holed up in an RV somewhere on Sheep Knob near Nester Branch post-eviction from the lousiest mobile home he ever ain't wrote a check for once. ... more

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