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Barking Up The Wrong Tree

by Baxter Stone & The Chocolate Dogs

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1.
Barking Up The Wrong Tree 02:46
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Barking up the Wrong Tree (Words & Music Baxter Stone) It’s one step forward and two steps back for me Yeah I’m the dog that’s barking up the wrong tree Well the world is spinning round gone completely mad Its heading in the wrong direction with me (chorus) What’s wrong with me What’s wrong with me What’s wrong with me Am I the dog or they the dog that’s barking up the wrong tree Well there’s a call to arms So load that M16 Yeah I’m the one that’s Digging out the latrine Well the way forward is clear To everyone but me But it’s not so clear When your neck deep In the shit house of the day (Chorus) What’s wrong with me What’s wrong with me What’s wrong with me Am I the dog or they the dog that’s barking up the wrong tree (Bridge) Well I’m the dog that’s barking Taken new to larking I’m the dogs that’s barking Taken new to larking Start the car and load that WMD Its gonna rain missiles half the day and night Send Uday to the bank to make a quick withdrawal Meet Dad in Damascus and watch the holy war (Chorus) What’s wrong with me What’s wrong with me What’s wrong with me Am I the dog or they the dog that’s barking up the wrong tree
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Fear of Falling 03:48
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Fear of Falling (Words & Music Baxter Stone) What ever you believe don’t make it true Yet you must believe to see the truth Tell me what you make of it, Tell me what you think of it Tell me what’s your take on it, Tell me how you see it fits Tell what’s the spin on it, Tell me how you interpret it Tell me what your judgement is, Tell me your analysis What ever you believe don’t make it true Yet you must believe to see the truth I got to know what’s spinning in your mind I got to know Feel the vibration A fear of falling The ground’s pulsating a fear of falling A thousand eyes on you glowing on the hillside Their observing investigating Tell what’s the spin on it, tell me how to interpret it Tell me what your judgement is, tell me your analysis What ever you believe don’t make it true Yet you must believe to see the truth I got to know what’s spinning in your mind I got to know, I got to know What’s spinning in your mind I got to know, I got to know Feel the vibration a fear of falling The ground’s pulsating a fear of falling A fear of falling A fear of Falling A fear of Falling A fear of falling
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Brine 03:40
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Brine (Words & Music Baxter Stone & Adrian Morgan) I get the munchies late in the night I get up and go to the fridge I pull out a can of tuna fish I hold up close to my nose One sniff and my senses explode I drink the brine and throw away the fish I know I’m a selfish son of a bitch I drink the brine and throw away the fish That poor fish would still be swimming the ocean blue If wasn’t for people like me and you Who like to conquer divide and rule Some people are addicted to coke Others got cigarettes Because they like to smoke Eat or be eaten isn’t that the rule I know I’m a selfish son of a bitch I drink the brine and throw away the fish ah ah woe ah I know I’m a selfish son of a bitch I drink the brine and throw away the fish I feel sorry for my friend the tuna fish Gets caught and canned and made into this And I drink the brine And throw him away It troubles me and it should trouble you Our poor friend should be swimming in the ocean blue Drink brine Drink brine Drink brine Drink brine Drink brine and I throw away the fish Our poor friend would be still swimming around If wasn’t for people like us Bringing him down Who like to conquer divide and rule Eat or be eaten Isn’t that the way But I feel sorry for my friend today Oh yeah he was a poor tuna fish
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Disappear 03:25
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Disappear (Words & Music Jim Gamack) My Friend and me We stole ship down by the sea Sailed away from our robbery Straight of the edge of the world The first mate scared me down With a cutless face Hitched our sails around the cape Straight of the edge of the world Disappear I've Disappeared Without a trace I’m so down hearted with that human race Out on the open sea Waves are crashed down around you and me All the same we’re feeling free to go straight off the edge of the world After months away no regrets about a single day Take me far away Straight of the edge of the world Disappear I've Disappeared I won’t show my face I won’t show my face
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Sticks or Stones 04:32
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Sticks or Stones (Words & Music) Baxter Stone I've got the postmortem blues Ruminating on you I know I was so loaded last time we talked Low esteem has cut us down In this dirty town We gambled and lost our last chance I got the blues so bad I can’t talk I’m a loose cannon on deck I got to choose between sticks or stones Thin skin or broken bones Remember when we got tattooed An showed them off down at the pub Went swimming in the surf just to prove we were tough I needed thinking time with Coogee Bay looking blue Walking up from the main street to the cliff top path I got the blues so bad I can’t talk I’m a loose cannon on deck I got to choose between sticks or stone Thin skin or broken bones I saw a woman up there She was a vision with flaming hair Like a halo in the sunlight She turned to me and said Ooh It’s a wonderful life Ooh it’s a wonderful life Well I wasn’t so sure I freed a boat from its moor I saw a shark in the water and dived in I'm ain’t afraid of you there's plenty of people That scare me more than you they disturb me back on the shore I got the blues so bad I can’t talk I’m a loose cannon on deck I got to choose between sticks or stone Thin skin or broken bones
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Little House On The Herb 03:50
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Little House on The Herb (Words & Music Baxter Stone & Adrian Morgan) My good friend Steve called today He just called up to say g'day Now there’s not many people that do that these days We would go busking down at the mall And you remember those hippies that Would invite us over for tea Little old house Little old house The Incense burning Curtains in the lounge room Thirteen floor elevators on the sterio The smell of herbs emanates from the kitchen The smell pervades your nose Little old house on the herb Little old house on the herb Little old house on the herb Just a little old house Little old house on the herb The veggies are growing and in the green house outside Bob Marley ‘s driving the exodus has arrived Those girls with dreadlocks rings through their nose A smell of freedom it comes and goes And looking out where have these people gone Are they still with us or lost in a desert of time Little old house just my little old house on the herb Little old house on the herb Little old house just my little old house on the herb Little old house just my little old house on the herb And looking out where have these people gone Are they still with us or lost in a desert of time
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Step Right Up 03:40
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Step Right Up (Words & Music Baxter Stone, Adrian Morgan, Jillian O'Dowd) Winter comes bang on time The bitter winds We pay no mind With a song to sing we’d lift up any heart Mother’s love Wraps you like a coat Follows you like a holy ghost Those silly scenes inside Would make us laugh Step inside Step Right Up Come Inside Once we would wind down the strip Laughter at our finger tips There’s a band at every bar Mad love strikes us hapless two Kissing on the avenue The kings of neon beacon you to try Step inside Step Right Up Come Inside It was a long time ago Things change and grow You got pay the toll In exchange you grow old Step inside Step Right Up Come Inside Information overload Plug and pray and hope it loads Lock and load the closed circuit heart On every street in every town They stick them up and pull them down Instead of bands There’s a karaoke bar and everyone's a star Step inside Step Right Up Come Inside Na Na Na Na Na Na
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Moonbeam 03:28
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Moonbeam ( Words & Music Baxter Stone & Adrian Morgan) I see her riding out of the universe Riding her white unicorn Moonbeams sparkles in her eye She’s a surprise she’s the light She an altruistic white witch A belladonna she’s the dancer so surrender A manichean romancer See her consult the book of shadows Contacting the living and dead She’s on the river of colour surprise A mistress of séance I’d seen her fly String theory is her domain Roaming the astral plane Fairies and soul mates Mantras divine She has nirvana in her heart When I look into her eyes Waving her wand and fixing it all with a smile A work of art everyone admires She’s got me hypnotized With her wicked eyes She’s got wicked eyes She a playful little stranger An illuminating light Emanating love She’s eminent in your life She a cosmic romancer A manichean enchanter with her wicked eyes She’s got wicked eyes She’s got wicked eyes She’s got wicked eyes She’s a moonbeam She’s a moonbeam
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Sirens 03:21
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Sirens (Words & Music Baxter Stone) I hear the siren on the busy street Defies direction on my well worn feet Let it sigh let it sigh let it sign Ah situation normal it’s all fucked I looked you up I got the wrong address I could cry I could cry I could cry I’ve seen it before in a lonely old photograph a million busy streets Look like grooves in phonograph And seeing hills of gold with their wireless masts I feel like the mole Crawling out of a hole Spying on you all I'm keeping a tab The melting pot of the city life In the fire of sacrifice I’m on fire on fire on fire on fire Waltz around I’m desperate too Jump the barricade and ride the tube Let it me ride let me ride I feel the souls of the folks on that photograph Ghosts walk these high roads of the past and I feel there’s no turning back I feel like the mole Crawling out of his hole Spying on you all I'm keeping a tab I feel like the mole Crawling out of his hole Spying on you all I'm keeping the score I feel like the mole Crawling out of his hole Spying on you all I'm keeping a tab
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Digging Up Fools Gold 03:55
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Digging up Fools Gold (Words & Music Baxter Stone) Honey don’t go digging up fools gold Don’t go down that lonely shaft Honey don’t go digging up fools gold You’ll never ever come back When summer rains come again I’m gonna dance outside and wash away the dirt in side my heart and mind Honey don’t go digging up fools gold Don’t go down that lonely shaft Honey don’t go digging up fools gold You’ll never ever come back I lie awake at night I hear those planes overhead Look out my window At the ships off the shore Oh I wish that I could be with them On that plane I hear On that ship I see On that plane I hear On that ship I see On the Plane taking people far away On that ship heading to a distant shore Don’t go digging up fools gold Don’t go down that lonely shaft Honey don’t go digging up fools gold You’ll never ever come back Singing touch songs and dreaming of a place I wandered here and I was fishing there And wondered what to say I waited for a year I waited for a day I tried resolved what I should say Breakfast conversions my mind just drifts away Should I write you a letter Sing you a song Sit on your doorstep Looking forlorn Should I do nothing Should I just forget it Breakfast conversion My mind just drifts away Ah honey don’t go digging up fools gold Don’t go down that lonely shaft Honey don’t go digging up fools gold You’ll never ever come back Honey don’t go digging up fools gold Don’t go digging up dirt Honey don’t go digging up fools gold You’ll never ever ever ever come back Honey don’t go digging up fools gold
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Too Much Too Soon 02:55
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Too Much Too Soon (Words & Music Baxter Stone) They say it’s never too late for redemption And now so near the end we shall see It was all, all too much, too soon I never did believe in an after life And now so near the end It makes you think twice It was all, all too much, too soon Life can get dangerous Time scarce too fast to fool Find time for happiness Safe from the bad things that you do I shake, i shake, i shake, I shake i’m not being funny It was a funny sort of loving Automatic pumped and ready Who took the voodoo from the city Cafe’s with nothing but cliches A cartel of bitches and leaches No charity for the children Stand in line for the double feature It was all too much All too much too soon It was all too much All too much too soon It was all too much All too much too soon It was all too much All too much too soon It was all too much All too much too soon It was all too much All too much too soon
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Glass Palace 03:38
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Muddy Water 05:26
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Muddy water flowing down stream Muddy water carries our golden dreams Muddy water keep a sharp eye out It might be raining but that muddy water gets the nuggets out Pan that gold yeah, pan it good Pan the gold sift it like you should Sift it like you should Those folks down stream will get it If you don't watch out Well the road to Melbourne Paved with gold There's 50 men down a hole There picking and digging Hammering and shifting sandy earth The Muddy water gets the nuggets out Well the road to Melbourne Paved with gold There's 50 men down a hole There girdling and sleuthing Telling jokes and goofing arounds The Muddy water gets the nuggets out Pan that gold yeah, pan it good Pan the gold sift it like you should Sift it like you should mining gold yeah helps pass the lonely hours Boil your billiy's well my friends There's a dead cow in the stream again Bags of laundry and weekend swills Lanterns move around the misty hills that muddy water gets the nuggets out Well the road to Melbourne Paved with gold There's 50 men down a hole oh there's bush rangers in the hills You better guard your fortunes well It might be raining but that muddy water gets the nuggets out It's such a long way to Melbourne town It's a long way to Melbourne It's a long way Such a long way mmh Muddy water flowing down stream Muddy water carries our golden dreams Muddy water keep a sharp eye out It might be raining but that muddy water gets the nuggets out Those folks down stream will get it If you don't watch out Well the road to Melbourne Paved with gold There's 50 men down a hole Moving heaven and hell and blowing up things all about It might be raining but that muddy gets the nuggets out

about

'Barking Up The Wrong Tree' The album was recorded in February 2017 with most of the tracking was done Feb 10 and 11 in Kangaroo Valley during a heatwave. I mention it because you can almost sense the heat in the air around the recording. The initial CD was released on 26th November and was sold at the bands gigs. People were very positive about it. However I always felt there was a better version of it.

Now we've been forced to have break from gigging due to the mess that is 2020. It has enabled us time to look back. A couple of years down the track and having a few more tricks up our sleeve technically we were able to address some of the issues around the initial release.

So here it is! 'Barking Up the Wrong Tree' remixed and mastered.

Of this album I think it was a mighty ambitious effort and I feel the songs stand the test of time and people who come to our gigs know them well and sing along.

Baxter Stone

August 9/9/2020

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released September 9, 2020

Baxter Stone - Vocal, Guitar, Keyboard. Piano
Adrian Morgan - Bass, Keyboard,
Jillian O'Dowd - Vocals, Drums

Recorded by Ben Moore Harvest Recordings
Mixed Baxter Stone
Mastered Baxter Stone
Album Artwork Design: Baxter Stone
Dog Photographer/Artwork : Adrian Morgan
Goat Photographer Matt Hill

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Baxter Stone Kangaroo Valley, Australia

Baxter's music is a journey that visits blues, bluegrass, alt-country and rock and has been known to write a pop song with a mean left hook.

Baxter performs with the band The Chocolate Dogs.

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