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does anyone have the recorded version of Old Maid?

 

i have the live version, I was there when Jeff played it in Chicago saying it was an outtake of Being There. I know it was released and some compilation. anyone have it?

 

one of the more obscure pieces of the Wilco/Tweedy songbook....

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don't have it digitized yet but just picked up the you can never go fast enough lp. it's atribute album to the 70's movie two lane blacktop that starred james taylor and dennis wilson. quite the strange idea for an lp but it does evoke a feeling of being out in the middle of nowhere i suppose. the recorded version of old maid seems to be mostly if not only tweedy with guitar and was probably recorded in 2002 or earlier is my best guess. i picked up the lp from music direct for 13 bucks or so for a double lp.

 

Old Maid

 

 

Girl, I think we're getting old

My heart's grown colder

And your hair's turning gray

 

Come on, what do you say

Let's put the horse behind the cart

And make some hay

 

Old maid

We're not getting any younger

So wait

You can count your chickens

When you get laid

Old maid

 

Now I know you two were the best of friends

And you're about the only one she ever let in

But she's dead and that's a fact

And what I'm getting at?

I think we can do better than that

 

Old maid

We're not getting any younger

So wait

You can count your chickens

When you get laid

 

Now I know we've been friends since

Oh I can't remember way back when

Never in the month of May

June August or September

Well how about today?

 

Old maid

We're not getting any younger

Old maid

You can count your chickens

When you get laid

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