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Lure's On The Wall

from Of Lures & Love​.​.​. by Clem Chesterfield

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How do lures for fishing relate to love, one might ask? Clem likes to tie everything to love as a basic starting point. In Lures On The Wall there’s a definite love for the environment which is pointed out with lines like
“trawlers draggin’ ocean floors is something I ain’t for”,
“And toxic waste and sewage dumps we flush into Great Lakes,
is it gonna be last call for the lures on the wall?”
There’s also a nostalgic longing for simpler times and the loving relationship of the grandfather and grandson connected by fishing in clean water that makes this song relevant with today’s pandemic isolation.

lyrics

Verse 1

In my granddad’s boat house

There’s a history of the lake

A time before we took, all that we could take.

There’s paddles and preservers, rods and old duck calls

But the things that I remember were the lures on the wall


Chorus

We can’t fish this lake no more, they all rolled up on shore.

It looks like it’s last call, for the Lures on the wall


Verse 2

He’d tell stories of the days

When fish were caught by hand

As big as could be brought in, by just one man.

The kind that used to roam the lakes and jump up waterfalls

But Granddad said he caught them with the lures on the wall


Chorus

We can’t fish this lake no more, they all rolled up on shore.

It looks like it’s last call, for the Lures on the wall.


Verse 3

Days Before he passed away

I had the chance to ask

where the fish had gone, why they left no tracks

Pollution and the greed of man and minds that are so small

That’s why it’s last call for the lures on the wall


Last chorus

We can’t fish this lake no more,

They all rolled up on shore

Trawlers dragging ocean floors

Is something I ain’t for

Toxic waste and sewage dumps

We flush into Great Lakes

Is it gonna be last call,

For the Lures on the wall.

Or Is The writing on the wall, ya’ll ya’ll ya’ll

It looks like it’s last call

For the lures on the wall

credits

from Of Lures & Love​.​.​., track released June 4, 2021
PRODUCED BY HUGH CHRISTOPHER BROWN.
Recorded at The General Wolfe Inn and at The Post Office, Wolfe Island, Ontario, Canada.
MIXING BY HCB at The General Wolfe Lounge and at The Post Office, Wolfe Island.
Assistant engineering and editing by Jake Bury.

MASTERED BY MICHAEL FOSSENKEMPER at Turtletone NYC

DISTRIBUTED BY CRS (Continental Record Services) Holland

All songs written by
R. TIMOTHY SHEFFIELD
(SOCAN) 2020

Personnel;

Vocals: Clem Chesterfield, Damien Van Johnson, Pat Thompson
Acoustic Guitar: Clem Chesterfield
Electric Guitar: Damien Van Johnson
Mandolin: Pat Thompson
Double Bass: Willy Plaxton
Drums: Gary Lavallee
Fiddle: Al Duquette
Steel Guitar: Burke Carroll
Piano: Chris Brown

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Clem Chesterfield Kingston, Ontario

Howdy, my name’s Clem Chesterfield and I’m from Kingston, Ontario, Canada. I sing and write songs that some folks say sounds like Old Time Country & Western music. I tip my dusty ole hat to Cowboys and Rebels and everyone that might be an Outlaw by Nature, ya’ll are the true heroes of the Trail I call Life. ... more

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