I Took the Hook

1.	I Took the Hook - Michael Beebe, Brendan Riley
2.	Tear to a Glass Eye - Brendan Riley, J. E. Van Horne
3.	She Caught the Katy and Left Me a Mule to Ride - Yank Rachel, Taj Mahal
4.	Rollin' Low - Brian Luger, Brendan Riley, J. E. Van Horne
5.	End of the Road - Michael Beebe
6.	That's What I'm Talkin' About - Brian Luger, Brendan Riley, J. E. Van Horne
7.	Soul of the Duck - Michael Beebe
8.	The Game - Michael Beebe
9.	The Turn - Loren C. Winkler
10.	Behind Those Eyes - Michael Beebe
11.	Gravedigger - Brendan Riley, J. E. Van Horne
12.	Get Away From Me - Brendan Riley, J. E. Van Horne
13.	Mountain Movin' Mama - Brendan Riley, J. E. Van Horne

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Brendan Riley - lead vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion
Michael Beebe - lead guitar, vocals
Brian Luger - bass guitar, vocals
J. E. Van Horne - drums, vocals

recording engineers: Doug Huggins, the Owlman and the band
recorded May - June 2007 at: Owl Hollow
mastered by: Doug Van Sloun at Studio B
original cover art & the Duck by: Kenneth W. Justman

all songs copyright 2007 Blue Thorn Music (ascap)
except She Caught the Katy and Left Me a Mule to Ride
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Special thanks to: Al Doub, for driving the bus; Doug Huggins; Justin Rudiger; Al & Michelle Irions; Clete Baker; Joe Voda; Nils Anders Erickson; Marilyn Thomsen; Grant Bowerman; Dan Cerveny; Beth McBride; Niz Proskocil; Laura and Rick Bergholz; Steve Kocer; Paul Godtland; Marti and George Wilson; Drs. Huerter, O'Connor, McMahon and all the Lakeside staff; Terry Tonkinson; Brendan's family and friends; Nichole Smith; Brian's family and friends; Lauren Luger; Pam Luger; Amy Van Horne; and most importantly, the people who are kind enough to attend our shows.

In memory of: Rebecca, Michele, Adam Herold and all the troops who have sacrificed so much for our country.

She dangled out her naughty line
And she promised me real good times
I thought that I would know much better
But her purpose was spelled out to the letter

I took the hook baby
I took the hook baby
I took the hook baby
I play by no one’s rules 'cause mama didn’t raise no fool
I took the hook

Ran her fingers up and down on me
What we made was perfect harmony
I thought that I was out of time
My desire was rhythm to her rhyme

I took the hook baby
I took the hook baby
I took the hook baby
I play by no one’s rules 'cause mama didn’t raise no fool
I took the hook

You know her love runs through my veins
I can feel it when she grabs the reins
She’s like a needle in my arm
But her love drug won’t do no harm

I took the hook baby
I took the hook baby
I took the hook baby
I play by no one’s rules 'cause mama didn’t raise no fool
I took the hook

I saw you in the church yard
Mama what a sight to see
You can take my heart, my soul, and mind
The lord will have what's left of me

Darlin’ little lady
Tell you what I want to do
Gonna take you by your pretty little hand
And make sweet love to you

I'll tell you something that you cannot deny
Your dirty loving could bring a tear to a glass eye

You say you want a diamond
But you know that I’m so damn poor
You tell me I won't get lovin’ babe
Unless I give a little more

I worked for you all the winter
I slaved for you last fall
If I don't get some lovin’ by summer
You gonna see a grown man bawl

I'll tell you something that you cannot deny
Your dirty loving could bring a tear to a glass eye

I found you with my best friend
After working all day and night
You said, Hey babe, this ain't how it looks
He's just tuckin me in real tight

Well I gave you all my money
And I gave you all my time
But the only thing you ever gave me
Was the will to commit a crime

I'll tell you something that you cannot deny
Your dirty loving could bring a tear to a glass eye

She caught the katy, and left me a mule to ride
She caught the katy, and left me a mule to ride
Yeah my baby caught the katy, left me a mule to ride
When the train left the station man, I swore on her hide
I’m crazy about that hard headed woman of mine

Yeah my baby she's long, good god almighty she’s tall
My baby she’s long good god almighty she’s tall
My baby she’s long, my baby she’s tall
Sleeps with her head in the kitchen man big feets in the hall
And I’m crazy ‘bout that hard headed woman of mine

I love my baby, she’s so fine,
I wish she’d come over and see me sometime
She don’t believe that I love her, look at the hole I’m in
She don’t believe that I’m sinkin’, look what shape I’m in

She caught the katy, and left me a mule to ride
She caught the katy and left me a mule to ride
M y baby caught the Katy, left me a mule to ride
The train left the station man, I swore on her hide
I’m crazy about that hard headed woman,
that hard headed woman of mine

I never said who
You never guessed who
You can’t tell me who
So you can’t know with who

You won’t forget what
You think I did what
Now you believe what
But that ain’t really what

Did I go where
I never been where
You say you saw me where
Cause that’s not where

You say come home when
But you’re asleep when
I sneak in when
Did I listen when

You never knew why
You never asked why
You never cared why
So don’t you tell you why

I think I know the question
You think I need to know
I think I know the reason
It’s the end of the road
The end of the road

You think you know the answer
As you’re falling in a hole
You think God always saves you
But it’s the end of the road
The end of the road

When seconds are a lifetime
And it calls you back to home
You think that it’s all paradise
When it’s the end of the road
The end of the road
The end of the road
It’s the end of the road

I met her in the fall when she winked at me
The leaves were turning and so was she
She snuggled real close so I don’t see her eyes
Now I realize she winks at all the guys
That’s what I’m talkin’ about
That’s what I’m talkin’ about
With malice aforethought, she done me wrong
That’s what I’m talkin’ about

She moved to my house gonna make it her home
Made me search my soul at the Church of Rome
When I got home much to my surprise
She was hot and heavy with a couple of guys
That’s what I’m talkin’ about
That’s what I’m talkin’ about
With malice aforethought, she done me wrong
That’s what I’m talkin’ about

I took her to a show to see her favorite band
I lost her in the crowd when she dropped my hand
And when the show ended couldn’t feel any dumber
She was on the bus giving her all to the drummer
That’s what I’m talkin’ about
That’s what I’m talkin’ about
With malice aforethought, she done me wrong
That’s what I’m talkin’ about

She stole my hooded sweatshirt and my old red car
Cops chased her home when she robbed a bar
She winked at the judge and told a real sad tale
And now I’m doin’ time in the county jail
That’s what I’m talkin’ about
That’s what I’m talkin’ about
With malice aforethought, she done me wrong
That’s what I’m talkin’ about

Leaving out the back door
Take the red-eye out of town
Don’t know where I’m going
But I’m never coming down
Got a suitcase full of morphine
From the drugstore down the road
If I keep on living this way
I’m never getting old
Living and a dying
It all seems the same
When you know you’re nothing, but a player in the game

Heading down to Dallas
With a pocket full of pills
I have to keep on taking them
To keep from getting ill
The sweat runs down my face
My stomach’s tied in knots
I can’t find where I’m going
I don’t know what I’ve got
Living and a dying
It all seems the same
When you know you’re nothing, but a player in the game

Heading up to Nashville
Two guns in the back
I don’t know what I’m planning
I’m just following the tracks
Whiskey in my bloodstream
A heart full of cocaine
I keep driving faster
Through the pouring rain
Living and a dying
It all seems the same
When you know you’re nothing, but a player in the game

I hear you mumble something
As you walk on out the door
I know your sister could love me
More than you’ve ever loved before

And then your papa told me
Son, keep your hands to yourself
Heh, I ain’t your papa’s son
He can hound dog someone else

All the pretty things you love
Right now, they just don’t mean a damn
And every time I think of you
I hear that back door slam

Leaning at the bar in your red blue jeans
The way shimmy and shake you’re like a sex machine
Looking ‘round the room there’s no doubt you’re the queen
But what it is you want is just so hard to read

It’s hard to tell what’s on your mind
Looking for the shadows behind those eyes

It’s kind of hard to tell if you’re bent on hell
But if you’re on your way I’ll just wish you well
You can look your whole life for what you just can’t find
Maybe sometimes you seek, maybe sometimes you find

It’s hard to tell what’s on your mind
Looking for the shadows behind those eyes

What it means to me what it means to you
Is it all the same, does someone win or lose

It’s hard to tell what’s on your mind
Looking for the shadows behind those eyes

How much do you need baby
How much do you want
I got you a nice fur coat and diamond earrings to flaunt
My friends they have all told me
That women can't be satisfied

When we first met babe
I was happy as could be
The worst thing that you took was my pride away from me
I can't look myself in the mirror
Lord knows that I've tried

I've tried to quit you mama
Tried to leave you on your own
The hurt down deep inside makes me shake my black cat bone
I know I'll never leave you
'til the day that I die

Since that day you left me
Lord, I've always wondered why
The lovin' that you promised must have been a dirty lie
I've cried for you woman
But now all my tears have dried

Don’t know who you are woman
By what you talk about
You tell me that you love me
But your love has all burned out
I keep telling you baby
That you better just let me be

So it's up, down, turn around, shake it down,
Touch the ground, hear that funky sound and get away from me

I can tell by the way you smile
I can see by the way you walk
Ain’t gonna put your spell on me
With all your voodoo talk
No I ain’t gonna fall for that
What you are is a capital T

So it's up, down, turn around, shake it down,
Touch the ground, hear that funky sound and get away from me

You say you like it kinky
I say you are a freak
I have seen it all woman
It's all old news to me
One thing that I have learned
You never get nothing for free

So it's up, down, turn around, shake it down,
Touch the ground, hear that funky sound and get away from me

How often have I told you
There’s nothing more to say
I ain't that superstitious
We ain't going down today
Cause you are double trouble
Please don’t beg on bended knee

So it's up, down, turn around, shake it down,
Touch the ground, hear that funky sound and get away from me

When she moves across the room
Makin’ all the hearts go boom
Men can’t believe their eyes
With her sexy thunder thighs

She’s a mountain movin’ mama
She’s a mountain movin’ mama
Well there’s nothing I can say
Cause I know she get’s her way
She’s a mountain movin’ mama

Mama shakes it like no other
I just gotta be her lover
Wish she’d spend some time on me
I’m so desperate can’t she see

She’s a mountain movin’ mama
She’s a mountain movin’ mama
No cost I won’t incur
Cause I want to be with her
She’s a mountain movin’ mama

I finally got my chance
For one boogie woogie dance
They mopped us off the floor
Then we headed for the door

With my mountain movin’ mama
With my mountain movin’ mama
We drank our whiskey down
And balled out on the town
With my mountain movin’ mama

Then she took me by the hand
Said I’ll make you understand
That you’ll never be the same
And I’m the one to blame

You’re my mountain movin’ mama
You’re my mountain movin’ mama
Well you know that she was right
Cause I come back every night
With my mountain movin’ mama

When we move across the room
Makin’ all the hearts go boom
Men can’t believe their eyes
I’m with those sexy thunder thighs

She’s my mountain movin’ mama
She’s my mountain movin’ mama
Well there’s nothing I can say
Cause she always get’s her way
She’s my mountain movin’ mama