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Flight School

by Mudcat

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    Side One: Ungrateful Sun, Smash, Joy, Free, Shine
    Side Two: I Don't Want to Go to Heaven, Just Like Me, Flight School, If I Had My Way

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Ungrateful sun Shining on us all when we’re trying to sleep Ungrateful Moon Stirring lovers their souls to keep Ungrateful love Uninvited giving us reason to live Ungrateful child And the everlasting love you give Thankful cow. Chewing greens Thankful sow. Her sucklings to wean Ungrateful Sky Deep blue always blowing my mind Ungrateful Stars Plotting my way so I may find Ungrateful sun Shine on my enemy Shine on my lover Shine on my back door Some day Shine on my enemy Shine on my lover Shine © 2023 D. Dudeck ASCAP / 30 miles Up
2.
Smash 02:55
If this living don’t kill me I’ll Never die Smash to the ground Until I learn to fly Let me tell you how / as I climb the highest bough I can see so far now/ I am unbound The sky is forever She kisses the ground birds hang silent In the air watching the beasts of the ground as we wiggle our tails wallow in the mud / wallow in the mud and wail If this living don’t kill me I’ll Never die Smash to the ground Until I learn to fly The sky is forever She Kisses the ground © 2023 D. Dudeck ASCAP/ 30 Miles UP
3.
Joy 04:09
Joy Scratch the ground Lay the seed Stomach wants The Mind Needs Hands in the soil Head in the clouds Sweat and toil Cry out loud Joy. Joy .Joy Raise your voice Sing your song You cannot sing it wrong Sing : Joy. Joy. Sing Joy Joy © 2023 D. Dudeck ASCAP/ 30 Miles UP
4.
Free 03:00
Free My Mouth of the word ‘enemy’ Free My eyes to see the love in front of me Set me free Free My hands Lord, so I may give Free My Heart, So I may live Teach Me to Forgive Free my ears to the song of the Bumblebee Free My feet to meet the world under me Set me free Seasons Change Things turn strange Confusion and rage May Blind us to the beauty that surrounds us Free my body when It’s my time to go Feed the worms and the beetles down below Where the clover grows Free my soul into the darkest night Set it free into the night To the light © 2023 D. Dudeck ASCAP/ 30 Miles UP
5.
Shine 04:46
All Right Lying in the Rye She Rose all over me Lion in the Rye She Rose all over me Your Love Comes rolling from Heaven to the Sea Rollin’ and Tumblin’ In a Fishbowl of desire Melting away in the Heart of your fire O Come desire Today is destiny Burning higher Today is yet to be I see your Tail In the Night I see your Tail Burning across the sky Shine on us all Let us all know It’s all all right Shine on us all Let us all know It’s all all right © 2023 D. Dudeck ASCAP/ 30 Miles UP
6.
Flora Rosa 03:13
Flora Rosa, Flora Rosa may I sit by your fire? I Smell your bread rising I just need your smile Sitting in your kitchen window to the South In your light I listen to your gumdrop mouth Colored our days, Burned at night Earth and Fire in tongues of rhyme Nora Rosa, Nora may I sit by your fire? I Smell your bread rising I just need your smile Late in the wine, the Archer lets loose the string Arrows divine, I can still feel them sting Nora Rosa, Nora may I sit by your fire? I Smell your bread rising I just need your smile Mountain towers halfway to the sun Flowers sing the pollinator song Memory canyon echoes your name Like a child abandoned crying in vain Nora Rosa, Nora may I sit by your fire? I Smell your bread rising I just need your smile © 2023 D. Dudeck ASCAP/ 30 Miles UP
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Just Like Me 03:33
Just a pimp Just like you Just a chimp Throwing poo Just a rat Just like me Eating cats Spreading fleas Just a viper Just a vole I’m going to follow you Down your hole and Swallow you whole Just a germ On a pachyderm Just a dervish Whirling away Just a thought Just stardust Just dirt Thrown away Just a beetle Just a roach I will be here at home From coast to coast When man is toast ////// I don’t know / you don’t know; They don’t know / we don’t know We hope, live under faith We walk on and hope we don’t break Give us a sign / show us a why Give us a break / teach us to fly We’re your creation you know what we can take Living in faith / don’t let us break Living in faith Everybody eats some, everybody eats somebody, Every body eats - some body some time Just breath it in I don’t know / you don’t know; They don’t know / we don’t know We hope / we offer faith Keep walking / Don’t let us break (Show us a why) Living on faith /Don’t let us break Keep Walking / Don’t let us break © 2023 D. Dudeck ASCAP / 30 Miles Up
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Last Midnight Last midnight I heard a howlin’ I was a’fright For the devil was callin’, Callin’ me to her side I held my head; I heard a drummin’ To wake the dead. And my lover Oh, my, how she cried If you don’t love me Why don’t you marry the devil? Maybe the devil can take your evil ways Maybe the devil can take your evil ways Surely the devil is gonna love your ways. © 2023 D.Dudeck ASCAP / 30 Miles UP
11.
How long will you love me You asked me one fine day As I lay In your afterglow The answer to this question I know As long as children run and play As long as there are words left to say As long as there are flowers in May I'll love you forever and a day Forever and a day [Music] Well I guess forever came today. With sorrow. Comes tomorrow You asked How long have I missed you You asked How long shall I kiss you You asked How long will you be mine I pray forever and a day Lyrics by Marion Smith
12.
If I had my way I would tear this wall down today Between wrong and right, left and right, Night and day If I had my way I would tear this wall down today Living and the dying, laughing and crying And the laws of gravity I’m gonna fly away, sky and the ground and the water Will be all over me The living and dying laughing and the sighing Will Fly with me We’ll raze the stones and build bridges Temples to love And when we are finished Laying down in our love Lift the veil between us Reveal Love love love If I had my way I would tear this wall down today Emancipate from the embrace of this duality And reveal the one nature and multitude of love Tear down the prison walls of the mind and find What we’ve always been denied If I had my way I would tear this wall down today Pull down these bricks of fear and draw you near today…. If I had my way if I had my way I would tear down this wall of misunderstanding And hold you to me © 2023 D. Dudeck ASCAP/ 30 Miles UP
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credits

released May 3, 2023

Daniel ‘Mudcat’ Dudeck – Guitar, Vocals

Eskil Wetterqvist – Drums, Backing Vocals, Percussion, Arrangements

David Snave Evans– Bass, Backing Vocals, Flute, Arrangements

Joe Caporaso – Guitar

Daryl Dunn – Saxophone
and:

Mandi Strachota – Vocals

Chad Mason – Organ, Piano

Guests:

Dave Roth – Backing Vocals on Free, Ungrateful Sun

Brooks Mason – Guitar on If I Had My Way

Sol – Guitar on Joy

Jackson Allen – Harmonica on Ungrateful Sun

Massimo Baraldi - Speech on Flight School

Music and Lyrics by Daniel Dudeck ASCAP / 30 Miles Up
EXCEPT Forever and a Day – Lyrics by Marion Smith and Music by Daniel Dudeck

Recorded and Mixed by Jeff Bakos, Bakos Amp Works, Atlanta GA

March / April 2023

Mastered by JJ Reichert

Artwork by Ginger Michelle Collins-McGee

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“internationally known gospel and bluesman. Mudcat continues the traditions of the early blues pioneers while adding his own Mudcat edge, resulting in one of Atlanta’s greatest treasures. He regularly performs his Bayou-baked chicken-party revues at Atlanta’s premier blues club, Northside Tavern.”
– Atlanta History Center
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