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Darpo

from Move On by Ben Shannon

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Darpo

By the swamps of the Pee Dee River back in the piney woods
there's a little place called Darpo where the swimmin sure is good
There's no roads to Darpo--no dock or lifeguard stand
just a footpath lined with kudzu vines and faded old beer cans

When that summer sun hits the sand it like to burn off your bare feet
it get you runnin right down to Darpo just to get out of the heat
and you find a stick and you find a stone and you splash them into that lake
you got to scare them water-moccasins and the little alligators away

By the swamps of the Pee Dee River back in the piney woods 
there's a little place called Darpo and I'd take you if I could
to the sweetest little place I know I wonder if I could
I wonder if I could

Well its circled by Cypress trees and fed by old Swift Creek
and there's nowhere else like Darpo with waters as cool and deep
Well its dark as a CocaCola with a taste almost as sweet
and the bottom feels like velvet tickling your feet

By the swamps of the Pee Dee river back in the piney woods 
there's a little place called Darpo and I'd take you if I could
to the sweetest little place I know I wonder if I could
I wonder if I could

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from Move On, released August 8, 2013

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Ben Shannon Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Writing songs is a way of participating in a conversation about what meaning my little life and the world we all share might hold. Music has been a portal into the language of emotion. Songwriting, specifically, is a tool of survival that I've been able to use to manifest and maintain myself. These days I strive to be careful with the words I sing as they tend to have a way of coming true. ... more

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