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Xmas Time In Jessup

from When Santa Was A Pagan by Georgie Jessup

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Four song EP of Holiday related songs. The songs range from a Country-folk Murder Ballad/Prison/Christmas song to a more traditional Christmas song ala Elvis, an R&B funky pop song that James Brown could have rocked out, to the title cult which is a ballad about how the Roman Christian Empire appropriated Pagan Solstice traditions to assimilate them into the Christian belief system.

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Murder Ballad/Prison Ballad Christmas Song

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Xmas Time In Jessup

I'm stuck here in prison behind these old brick walls
Down here by the railroad tracks where Jessup made his cut
He took two hundred thousand tons of clay to clear them
Made the walls too high for happy Christmas nights

It's Christmas time in Jessup. We're all locked up at the Cut.
Barbwire hangs instead of Christmas lights [last time to outro]
I'm hunkered down in a jail cell. And no one gives a shit.
My lawyer's on vacation, can't get me out of it.

OUTRO: ...in prison here tonight.

Why I shot that man in Fells Point anyone can understands
I caught him with my lover and it changed all my plans
Instead of Christmas Stockings I got prison socks and bread.
Bad meat loaf in the oven bad thoughts inside my head.

Now I am such an woman and I'll never see the light.
That man I shot in Fells Point... wasn't worth the fight.
The girl she up and married Now my lawyer's second wife.
Another lonely Christmas … for me tonight.

© 2016 winkte music/ascap

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from When Santa Was A Pagan, released March 13, 2021
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Georgie Jessup Jessup, Maryland

Old school country to Memphis R&B influences her music placing it in the Americana genre, outspoken for animal rights, Native American issues, transgender rights and environmental sanity. “Georgie sings from the heart, like a rare flower in a wilderness. She speaks to us about the deepest issues. Issues that all of us should care about, but so many of us pretend don’t affect us.” ~ Candye Kane ... more

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