
The Walleye
11/14/2022 | 28m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
The Walleye play Folk/Country Rock with lyrical storytelling and country sensibilities.
The Walleye is a 4-piece Folk/Country Rock band with lyrical storytelling and country sensibilities. Ben Menard – Guitar and Vocals Derrick Fernandez – Bass Auston Ulmer - Organ Daniel McKay - Drums
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The Walleye
11/14/2022 | 28m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
The Walleye is a 4-piece Folk/Country Rock band with lyrical storytelling and country sensibilities. Ben Menard – Guitar and Vocals Derrick Fernandez – Bass Auston Ulmer - Organ Daniel McKay - Drums
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[Voiceover] From the STCU performance space at KSPS PBS, its Inland Sessions.
[Singing] Would you lay beside me now [Voiceover] From the depths of the Spokane River comes folk rock band, The Walleye.
With a gruff voice, heavy baseline and a twanging guitar this band will transport you to a more nitty-gritty time.
The Walleye.
Right now, on Inland Sessions.
[Singing] Throw in my ashes, spread em on top.
[Music plays] [Music plays] Tell me now who's to blame.
Standing here in the pouring rain Mouths at home are hungry as hell Two wives wait at the top of the hill [Music plays] If these are the last words that I speak I hope you catch a part of me to keep Wait til the day that the top falls off Throw in my ashes, yeah spread ‘em on top [Music plays] Wanna make it right so bad, I might just do some wrong [Music plays] Wanna make it right so bad, I just might do some wrong [Music plays] Wanna make it right so bad, I just might do some wrong [Music plays] Wanna make you right bad, I just might do some wrong [Music plays] I've been down here since the day I was born and today's the day the curtain gets torn I'll take whats mine, I waited so long I'll view from the top and then I'll be gone [Music plays] Wish I could say it was a beautiful view Can't tell you something that you already knew oh man, how they got it there up at the top Like forest fire burnin with the wood all been chopped [Music plays] Wanna make it right so bad, I just might do some wrong [Music plays] Wanna make it right so bad, I just might do some wrong [Music plays] Cause they got too much to lose to ever lose [Music plays] You got too much to lose to ever lose [Music plays] You got too much to lose to ever lose [Music plays] Got too much to lose to ever lose [Music plays] Well, Mr. Whitecollar, well, how do you do?
Your son will die the same class as you And Ill die the same class as this tree Voten for no one, no one voting for me [Music plays] Well, politicians are one in the same Pick yourself a color and lets play the game How about you get a bag, Ill get a lighter Siphon the gas, yeah, light it on fire [Music plays] What you wanna do?
Wanna make it right so bad, I just might do some wrong [Music plays] Wanna make it right so bad, I just might do some wrong [Music plays] Wanna make it right so bad, I just might do some wrong [Music plays] Wanna make it right so bad, I just might do some wrong [Music plays] Son, you know this things always been rigged Knew it back when you were a kid Staring there at the principals floor Thirty years later its a jail cell door [Music plays] Oh, my my, we got nothing to fear The police their all a finally here Oh, can they kill a man thats already dead?
Two shots to the back, one to the head [Music plays] Makes you wanna Wanna make it right so bad I just might do some wrong [Music plays] Wanna make it right so bad I just might do some wrong [Music plays] Cause ah you get too much to lose to ever lose [Music plays] you got too much to lose to ever lose [Music plays] You got too much to lose To never lose [Music plays] Get too much to lose to ever lose [Music plays] [Music plays] [Music plays] If you ever find the golden fleece If you ever find the golden fleece, won't you give it to me?
Won't you give it to me?
Because Im a man in need [Music plays] Jason and the Argonauts across the sea Jason and the Argonauts at breakneck speed 60 miles an hour For all the gods to see [Music plays] Because I am a man in need [Music plays] Because I'm a man in need [Music plays] The men on the Argonaut they aint lying The men on the Argonaut stay drunk all the time Achilles drink whiskey [Music plays] Hercules, he drinks wine [Music plays] Because Im a man in need [Music plays] Because Im a man in need [Music plays] Well King Peleas what say you?
King Peleas What you gonna do?
I stole you the fleece.
What you gonna do?
[Music plays] Because Im a man in need [Music plays] [Music plays] [Music plays] With my back against the wall I thought I heard her call out my name With the bullets flying out around me And there just like a cloud she turned around and smiled In that dress that she wore on the night that she left Beneath the stars Beneath the stars Wont you lay your body down with me Just for a while Beneath the stars Beneath the stars Wont you lay your body down with me Just for a while I wasn't looking for a fight But it seems this time I might Have found one that I wont see the other side of She said dont worry about a thing, yeah death has its sting But theres more to this life than pleasure and pain Beneath the stars Beneath the stars.
Wont you lay your body down with me just for a while [Music plays] And isnt it the same old moon that you and me, we always knew?
And isnt it the same old moon you and me, we always knew?
Beneath the stars Beneath the stars.
Won't you lay your body down with me just for a while?
Beneath the stars Beneath the stars Wont you lay your body down with me just for a while?
And she began to laugh, a tall stranger dressed in black walked towards me in that deadly space Let the bullets fly She said darling this heres Death I met him the night I left It's okay to take his hand and walk a little while Beneath the stars Beneath the stars Wont you lay your body down with me just for a while?
For a while Beneath the stars Beneath the stars Wont you lay your body down with me Just for a while.
For a while [Music plays] [Music plays] Oh great river you knew my father And my father trusted you Would you lay beside me now until all of this is through Oh great river you knew my father And my father trusted you Would you lay besides me now ‘til all of this is through?
One way or another [Music plays] Well, the chinook they came in a fever dream Like a dying bleeding sunset carried me upstream [Music plays] And I remember the pine, the willow, and the alder And the way the river hung to the shore And my mother on the banks of the Spokane where I was born Yeah, the chinook came in a fever dream.
Like a dying bleeding sunset carried me upstream [Music plays] And I remember the pine, the willow, and the alder And the way the river hung to the shore And my mother on the banks of the Spokane where I was born [Music plays] When I wake up I am here, here alone with only you Would you lay beside me now until all of this is through?
When I wake up, I am here.
Here alone with only you.
Would you lay beside me now until all of this is through?
One way or another.
[Music plays] Well, I have two hearts for them Both them are broken [Music plays] Yes, I have two hearts for them Both of them are broken [Music plays] Yes, I have two hearts for them Both of them are broken I will not thirst Upstream, I will die first Upstream I will die first Upstream [Music plays]
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Clip: 11/14/2022 | 4m 47s | Listen to this record of "Francis" by The Walleye that was cut for time. (4m 47s)
"The Ballad of Willie Willey" - Cut For Time
Clip: 11/14/2022 | 3m 45s | Listen to "The Ballad of Willie Willey" by The Walleye that was cut for time. (3m 45s)
Preview: 11/14/2022 | 36s | Next Monday on Inland Sessions is folk rock band The Walleye! (36s)
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