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I've been meaning
To kill these demons
To cast away these feelings
A frozen heart from the very start
Damn you'll set my soul on fire

Am I dreaming
When I'm believing
Its His will I'm deceiving
Its hard to cope while I'm loosing hope
Damn you'll set my soul on fire
Oh you'll set my soul on fire

I'm just an old man
Lending a helping hand
Sent to fix your pain
A white cloud under a dark shroud
You'll never face you're fear again
Oh you want it, you need it, I got it for you my friend
A little Pin Gon under the Jalisco sun will put you on the mend

They call me Black Jack Jewel
Blind and gray but ain’t nobody's fool
They call me Black Jack Jewel

Federales swept them alleys the summer of 55'
I caught a dime stretch, there's just one catch
You're never taking Jack alive
I ain't one, to stay long, behind some cold steel bars
I'm just a con man with a simple plan
Carry on towards that north star

They call me Black Jack Jewel
Blind and gray but ain’t nobody's fool
They call me Black Jack Jewel

I hopped a coal train to Wisconsin
The first place I called home
Hid in Yuba with a drunken Buddha
The driftless hills we roamed
Spent my last days in strange ways
A servant of the land
I'm just a dying man with a simple plan
Gonna leave it in the Almighty's hands

They call me Black Jack Jewel
Blind and gray but nobody's fool
They call me Black Jack Jewel

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from J​.​R. & The Strangers, released January 11, 2020

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J.R. & The Strangers Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Rolling through the heartland of Americana rust, J.R. & The Strangers are on a roots rock mission to write songs and rattle stages.

When Justin Jagler, Ryan Neale, Jake Stanzer and Lee Gray come together, driving rhythms and dynamic guitars turn the pages of a neo-western book of revelations.
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