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I'll Play the Fool

from Baby You Win by Cliff Westfall

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I’ll Play the Fool
©Cliff Westfall 2018

Well you may need somebody to help you pay the rent
I see you sleeping on the street I won’t ask you how my money’s spent
You can preach predestination, you can preach about free will
Give the Lord a big donation and then stick me with the bill
I’ll play the fool, if you want I’ll play the fool
Sometimes I wish I didn’t love you but there’s nothing I can do but play the fool

Well you can wear your hair in pigtails, you can wear your hair in curls
You can walk like an old lady, talk just like a little girl
You can cuss my favorite uncle man I‘ll take that on the chin
Stay out all night and tell me that your grandma died again
I’ll play the fool, if you want I’ll play the fool
There ain’t a damn thing you can tell me that I won’t say is true, I’ll play the fool

Yeah you can say that blue is orange, you can say chartreuse is yellow
If you say it’s raining pumpkins girl, well I’ll pack a steel umbrella
You can say your ex is handsome, tell me I don’t look like him
You can push me off a lifeboat, say you taught me how to swim
I’ll play the fool, if you want I’ll play the fool
I wish I could refuse it but it’s really up to you if I play the fool
I won’t ask too many questions, I won’t need no talking to, I’ll play the fool
There ain’t a star on my horizon that burns as bright as you, I’ll play the fool

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from Baby You Win, released July 13, 2018
Track 7 from my forthcoming album, "Baby You Win," produced by Bryce Goggin (Pavement, the Ramones, Antony and the Johnsons, Evan Dando) at Trout Recording in Brooklyn, NY, and renowned New York guitarist and songwriter Graham Norwood.

The album features the following musicians:

Lead vocals, acoustic guitar: Cliff Westfall
Electric guitar: Scott Metzger (Shooter Jennings, Wolf!, Phil Lesh, Joe Russo's Almost Dead)
Electric and acoustic guitar, harmony vocals: Graham Norwood
Pedal steel: Dan Iead (Norah Jones, Cass McCombs, Valerie June)
Bass: Jeremy Chatzky (Ronnie Spector, Bruce Springsteen, Laura Cantrell)
Drums: David Christian (Brian Burton aka Danger Mouse, Mary Timony's Helium, Sam Cohen, Hospitality, Sweet Cream)
Keyboards: Charlie Giordano (Bruce Springsteen)

Plus guest harmonies from Matthew Horn (A Don Piper Situation) on "Sweet Tooth," "Hanging On," and "The Man I Used to Be," and Barbara Endes (Girls on Grass) on "A Lie If You Must"...

All tracks mastered by Alex McCollough of True East Mastering, Nashville, TN

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Cliff Westfall New York, New York

New York-based, Kentucky-bred country songwriter Cliff Westfall writes songs about heartache, loss, addiction – you know, funny songs. Or he can dive into a sentimental weeper.

He delivers them all with the wit that, for Westfall, is central to country music. His songs are bitingly acerbic, dependent on the twisty puns, bittersweet humor, and turns of phrase that used to define country music. ... more

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