The Narrows

from Poor Pretender by Long Mama

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"The Narrows" is a song about the stories we make up to explain and distance ourselves from acts of violence. May we take collective responsibility and action to prevent harm and build cultures of community care.

lyrics

They called me a madman
They called me a ghost
Forty-eight days running at forty below
They gave me no rest
They gave me no peace
Corner this dog and it’s powder you’ll eat

If you follow me to the narrows
If you follow me to the narrows

They thought they had me at Whitehorse
At Rat River they came
Four mounties’ men to put me away
But I will not go quietly
And I will not surrender
And I will not falter before I fire

If you follow me to the narrows
If you follow me to the narrows
I’ll run ‘til you can’t find my tracks in the snow
If you follow me to the narrows

When they finally gunned me down
May’s mounties from Calgary
They listed the things that they found on my icy cold body
A needle and thread
Five pearls and a pocket knife
Nine dollars in gold, twelve matches,
and seven little pieces of moosehide.
A .30-30 and .22
Ten laces for snowshoes, too.
Fish hooks and pills and twine
Who was I, who was I, who was I?

They call me a broken man
They explain me away
Fought in the trenches, seen too many graves
Or am I your very heart off-beat and untame
Who’d rather wreak havoc than more of the same?

Won’t you follow me to the narrows?
Won’t you follow me to the narrows?

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from Poor Pretender, released October 28, 2022
Produced by Long Mama and Erik Koskinen
Recorded and mixed by Erik Koskinen at Real Phonic Studios
Mastered by Justin Perkins at Mystery Room Mastering

Words by Kat Wodtke
Music by Kat Wodtke & Andrew Koenig

"The Narrows" Track Credits:
Kat Wodtke: vocals
Andrew Koenig: electric guitar
Samual Odin: upright bass
Nick Lang: drums
Eva Nimmer: backing vocals

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Long Mama Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Long Mama’s music blisters with the heart and grit of someone who has lost hard, loved harder, and licked her burns until they stung then silvered. In a drafty attic just west of the Milwaukee River she grew up on, you’ll find songwriter Kat Wodtke (Wood-key) raking through notebooks in search of a salve: words, stories, and sounds to temper the dumpster fires we never mean to light. ... more

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