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Another Man's Shoes

from MOONDOG by Joseph Huber

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***Can one of the most cliche moralistic lines on planet earth still mean a thing in our age if you put a crooked-enough fiddle line to it?***

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ANOTHER MAN’S SHOES

There's a place folks call home--
Full of riches without wealth,
There's a place folks call hell
Where a man can't help himself,
And the road folks will go there--
Another can never tell,
But a warm and open heart will do you just as well.

It'll pull you from the ditches
And the mud on your heels
Will fall as the wind
Lifts you o'er the swaying fields
Where a soul who's lost it’s sight
Of the great and mighty wheel
May somehow, there and then, begin again to feel.

Hey brother, tell you what you do,
You walk for a mile in another man's shoes.
Another man's shoes, so they say,
Will help to make you a better man someday.

The past has a way of never leaving one alone.
Some carry it like a weight
In the marrow of their bones
Through a world dark with power
Where the only light that's shone
Is the goodness of another whose heart is bigger grown.

Hey brother, tell you what you do,
You walk for a mile in another man's shoes.
Another man's shoes, so they say,
Will help to make you a better man someday.

When we perch upon the wreckage
And the shambles of our gains,
Standing painted in the corner
Of the progress we've made,
Never knowing another's footsteps
‘Til our own are in chains--
Will we still await another to hasten to our aid?

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from MOONDOG, released July 12, 2019
Written and performed by Joseph Huber
Eston Bennett: upright bass

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Joseph Huber Milwaukee, Wisconsin

After 7 years of hard touring and playing banjo with the influential streetgrass group, .357 String Band, Joseph Huber has found an individual voice that covers a vast range of influence. Playing all the instruments, from fiddle to harmonica to banjo to tambourine (and as many as he can at once) he amazes and entertains, but also reveals substance. His songs are lyrical, but he knows a good hook. ... more

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