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Sacramento Stealin'

Within the mountains we laid us down,
With snow for our pillows and a blanket made of ice.
Easy Jim, Omaha Slim and I
A three day ride.
A three day chase,
A three day nightmare:

Stealing gold out of Sacramento,
You'd better be prepared to bleed.

Omaha Slim had that look in her eye
Just like the night that she ran the table.
A look like that makes a man scared in bed,
Like lying down near a knife wrapped in sable.
And Easy Jim the cowpoke from the coast,
Now he was a strange one to contemplate,
Didn’t drink or smoke, grew up irate.
Stealing gold out of Sacramento,

Stealing gold out of Sacramento,
You'd better be prepared to bleed.

Have you once felt your horse gallop in fright,
And the wind on your neck made you scream?
Have you once heard a bullet pass by in the night,
And snarl and spit through its quicksilver gleam?
We faced an eagle on an outcropping above the tree line,
Watched for dust trails in the valley until we grew blind,
Loaded our Remingtons in the saddle and dodged shot from behind.

Stealing gold out of Sacramento,
You'd better be prepared to bleed.

Gold to the left and gold to the right
Sometimes it’s all I can think of
Death to the left and death to the right
Sometimes it’s all I can think of
A bullet to the left a bullet to the right
Sometimes it’s all I can think of
A blink to the left a wink to the right
There are some things that no one should speak of.

Stealing gold out of Sacramento,
You'd better be prepared to bleed.

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from Midnight's Break (Live at The Majestic) Double Disc, released June 7, 2013

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Venice Gas House Trolley is the sound of a new creative generation that believes imagination is liberation. The band is jammy, jazzy, funky, and tribal with spoken word poetry and heavy grooves. VGHT's music is packed with psychedelic soundscapes and boundary exploring arrangements while still providing enough hooks and thick grooves to keep audience's heads bobbing and feet moving. ... more

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