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Check the keys in the car
Fill the trunk with all you can carry
Kiss the dog in the yard
Leave a sock in the window, say sorry

I can’t stay; if I do, I will break
Father, he stands so tall
Riding his bicycle

Fly with me to Hong Kong,
We’ll stop into Shanghai
Lay-overs in Tokyo
Sheol burns down below
Take me to Hong Kong,
We’ll talk about Shanghai
Sleepovers in Michigan
Do we begin again?

She swayed out of the bed
Seraphim and the trumpets had spoken
I sat up from my desk
heard a cry in the night, all awoken

She can’t stay
If she does she will break
Father, he fell from grace
Sleeping in human waste

Does she know,
I thought of him ten years ago
I never knew he was a general
but wanted to sing international

I can’t stay; if I do I, I will break
Across the Pacific coast,
That’s where I died the most

Fly with me to Hong Kong,
We’ll stop into Shanghai
Lay-overs in Tokyo

Sheol burns down below
Take me to Hong Kong,
We’ll talk about Shanghai
Sleepovers in Michigan
Let us begin again

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from Northern, released June 24, 2018
Song & Lyrics by Tobias C. Wong

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Northern New York

Northern is a Brooklyn-based, modern folk trio comprised of frontman Tobias C. Wong, violinist Ben Walding, and banjo player Allen Engelhardt. The three-piece bluegrass outfit navigates fractured childhood memories and family nostalgia.

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