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CAT-002
Scrips original
Angeline
A Scrips original with a darker, droning pull, preserved in rehearsal and set-list evidence.
Source research
Documented lineage
- Earliest evidence
- Scrips working repertoire/archive source
- Aliases / index
- No alternate title or index recorded.
- Working arrangement
- Key G · Capo 5 · Banjo - Standard
Lyrics + source text
Working song sheet
Angeline The Scrips / Brad Wofford or band collaborator; confirm final songwriter split before publication Rights: scrips-original-needs-owner-confirmation Instrumental: | | | Verse: Angeline, your mother's calling you She's been asking where you've been I've run all out of stories, girl It's time that you check in The olive-shaded phone's about To ring and do me in Angeline Verse: Angeline, you're not an angel Nor a demonistic page Removed from some old book From some old place in a darker age Angeline, I like to say your name To people I don't know Angeline Chorus: But I think I've seen your future All reflected in your eyes Like an oracle of fortune I might not can sympathize For there is a substance You have taken That now has taken you Now it's got your allegiance Over anything at all It's taken all your loves And a ransom letter drawn It's hid them in a deeper place Than you would ever you could ever find Bridge: Instrumental: | | | | | | | Verse: Angeline, it's time to open up Your hazel eyes and say I'm leaving all these things behind And greet a bright new day Angeline, and if you don't I expect you'll pass away Angeline
Archive note
lyric/chord sheet present; listed under Original Songs in categorized master setlist; listed in master list; short WAV fragment tagged artist The Scrips; appears in setlist
Chords
G · D · C · D#maj7 · A# · Gm7 · F