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Sell the Spade

from Treacle & Vitriol by Sylvie Yannello

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When I look back on that earnest adolescent
Slogging in the country, a serf among peasants
If she could see me now would she be surprised
That I'm lord of the manor, would she envy or despise me

Don't play the sucker's game
Digging ain't how fortunes are made
To get rich in a gold rush sell the spade

If you're plumbing a house, I'm selling a wrench
I got a shovel if you're digging a trench
Headshots, lessons, pedals and effects
Client referrals just twenty per cent

I built a better mousetrap, watched it languish at the store
But this pyramid invitation's got 'em beating down my door
Sweat doesn't sell, naivety buys
So set up shop pushing supplies

Don't play the sucker's game
Digging ain't how fortunes are made
To get rich in a gold rush sell the spade

Hey you driving for pennies, what a sap
But you keep me in caviar because I wrote the app
Does peddling hope make me parasitic
I'm just a middle man now everyone's a critic

Don't play the sucker's game
Digging ain't how fortunes are made
To get rich in a gold rush sell the spade

Don't play the sucker's game
Digging ain't how fortunes are made
To get rich in a gold rush sell the spade

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from Treacle & Vitriol, released April 1, 2021
music and lyric by Sylvie Yannello
producer: Mike Muller
drums/percussion: Don Kelly
bass: Mike Muller
guitar: Arthur Neilson
vox, piano: Sylvie Yannello
recording engineer: Brent McLaghlan

recorded at 30 Below
New York, New York

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Sylvie Yannello Queens, New York

Sylvie played drums for the Brooklyn-based indie band Her and the Grey for two years before joining the pop-soul quartet Phanrosy, also on drums. She provides piano accompaniment at a local ballet school, and participates regularly in Big Ed Sullivan's World Famous Blues Jam at the Red Lion on Bleecker Street. ... more

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