Episode 5 Justified Fitting End Tales From the Homestead

Justified Fitting End is the 5th track on Tallsome Tales by The Carnivaleros.

Was you sent or did you just went
Asked the preacher 'cross the table from me
I told him it was neither I was backed up to a wall
Certain things are meant to be
I had to kill my father he was beatin' on my mother
Some old fences just will not mend
It was an unexpected, loosely-jointed, understated, overrated,
Jaded but sophisticated, justified fitting end

My Ma was a-raisin' my sisters and me
In a shack on the edge of town
She always did her best to keep food on the table
Even though Pa was not around
But he'd show up now and then in the heat of the moment
Reeking of a backwoods still
He'd been in a rage every day gone by
Since they laid him off down at the mill
He knocked us all around but my Ma got it the worst
Only so far a body can bend
Until his unexpected, loosely-jointed, understated, overrated,
Jaded but sophisticated, justified fitting end

There was a time things weren't so bad
When we were knee high to a man
But that must've been just a child's perception
Don't remember when they got out of hand

Now I'm doin' time on the local state dime
I did what I had to do
My Ma would've died and the bruises on my sisters
Were a spectacle of black and blue
I’m a peaceful man most every day
But when the trouble just would not end
I had to do something 'cause my ma and my sisters
Had not the strength to fend
If I had to do it over it would come out just the same
Some old fences just will not mend
It was an unexpected, loosely-jointed, understated, overrated,
Jaded but sophisticated, justified fitting end

Gary Mackender - accordion, organ, vocals
Karl Hoffmann - bass
Les Merrihew - drums
Joe Fanning - electric guitar
Mitzi Cowell - slide guitar
Björgvin Benediktsson - harmony vocals
Carla Brownlee - bari sax
Mike Coyle - trumpet
Michael Oliver - trombone
Greg Mackender - horn arrangements