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Dahlia
(music and lyrics by Chris Gleason)

Dahlia, Oh Dahlia / Pretty as can be / Dahlia, oh Dahlia / Life’s a bitter dream / Lost your daddy in the crash of 1929 / Moved to California where the men all stood in line / Raven hair and turned-up nose and lips as red as wine / People called you Bette, but they had one thing in mind /
 
Dahlia, Oh Dahlia / Pretty as can be / Dahlia, oh Dahlia / Life’s a bitter dream /

Found a place in Hollywood / just a closet and a bed / Strings of men in uniform/ to pay for meals and rent / You would rather starve than wear a skirt that’s out-of-date / or provide the services that men anticipate /  

Dahlia, Oh Dahlia / Pretty as can be / Dahlia, oh Dahlia / Life’s a bitter dream /

Inches from the sidewalk / Broken mannequin among the weeds / Arms raised up above your head / Perfect angles, forty-five degrees / Twenty former boyfriends, but the LAPD had no solid leads / Your killer washed you clean /

Once the tabloids caught the scent of your dark mystery / they misled your mama to unearth your history / Said you’d won a beauty contest / That is how they pried / before they said anything / about your Chelsea Smile /

Dahlia, Oh Dahlia / Pretty as can be / Dahlia, oh Dahlia /
Life’s a bitter dream / Dahlia, Oh Dahlia / Pretty as can be / Dahlia, oh Dahlia / Life’s a bitter dream / Life’s a bitter dream / Life’s a
bitter dream / Life’s a bitter dream / Life’s a bitter dream / Life’s a bitter dream

© 2013 Mule-in-a-Swamp Music (ASCAP)

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from Two​-​Egg Scrambler, track released December 20, 2013
Chris Gleason: lead and harmony vocals, mandolin, acoustic guitar
Lucy Martinez: harmony vocal
Bruce Bartone: bass guitar
Jakub Trasak: fiddle
Shamus Feeney: resonator slide guitar
Paul Stewart: piano
Donovan Edelstein: drums

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Sado-Domestics Boston, Massachusetts

Sado-Domestics is the singing-songwriting partnership of Boston-based multi-instrumentalists Chris Gleason (Los Goutos, Noise Floor Delirium) and Lucy Martinez (Lucy and the Dreamers).

Hey, Oaxaca (2020) is the third release from Gleason-Martinez, following a side-project, Noise Floor Delirium's Still Around (2017), and Sado-Domestics' debut album, Two-Egg Scrambler (2013).
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