Crookston is certainly one of the finest singer\/songwriters ever.\u00a0 His songs are very good and he sings with a deftness that you really can’t gauge unless you’ve tried to be a singer yourself.<\/p>\n
You can\u00a0 listen to “Freddy the Falcon”\u00a0 here<\/a>.\u00a0 You won’t be disappointed.\u00a0 If you want to, you can also download that song and four others\u00a0 by Crookston, all for free.<\/p>\n Crookston was in Memphis at the annual meeting of the Folk Alliance<\/a> in 2009 and he performed “Freddy the Falcon” before a small audience.\u00a0 You can view an amateur video of that event here<\/a>.<\/p>\n I transcribed these lyrics myself from the studio version with minor variations based on the Memphis version.<\/p>\n ——————————–<\/p>\n FREDDY THE FALCON<\/p>\n I’m Freddy the Falcon, daredevil’s feet And I hardly know nothin’ and mostly don’t care They all call me Ratboy; my grades are bad And I hardly know nothin’ and mostly don’t care Skippin’ school, hangin’ out on the street And I hardly know nothin’ and mostly don’t care Now I got these navy blues in jail cell “D” And I hardly know nothin’ and mostly don’t care Crookston is certainly one of the finest singer\/songwriters ever.\u00a0 His songs are very good and he sings with a deftness that you really can’t gauge unless you’ve tried to be a singer yourself. You can\u00a0 listen to “Freddy the Falcon”\u00a0 here.\u00a0 You won’t be disappointed.\u00a0 If you want to, you can also download that song … Continue reading “Folksinger Joe Crookston’s “Freddy the Falcon””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p45dxY-2X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSkateboard champ on Jackson Street
\nRamp up and lift off two flights high
\nWhen the wheels leave the pavement, the falcon can fly<\/p>\n
\nBut flying like this gets me outta here
\nAnd I wish I had somethin’, but nothin’ ain’t fair
\nFlyin’ like this gets me outta here<\/p>\n
\nWith a crazy temper than I got from my dad
\nMy momma gets scared when my dad comes home drunk
\nAnd everybody says Ratboy is destined to flunk<\/p>\n
\nBut flying like this gets me outta here
\nAnd I wish I had somethin’, but nothin’ ain’t fair
\nFlyin’ like this gets me outta here<\/p>\n
\nAnd out behind the factory where the dropouts meet
\nIt happened real quick; I got in on the scene
\nIn the back of a Mustang, cookin’ methamphetamine<\/p>\n
\nBut flying like this gets me outta here
\nAnd I wish I had somethin, but nothin’ ain’t fair
\nFlyin’ like this gets me outta here<\/p>\n
\nI guess I done what everyone expected of me
\nSo I sneak me a pencil — you gotta swear not to tell —
\nAnd at night I draw the falcon on the walls of my cell<\/p>\n
\nBut flying like this gets me outta here
\nAnd I wish I had somethin’, but nothin’ ain’t fair
\nFlyin’ like this gets me outta here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"