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Words and music by Dave. Recorded live in the spare bedroom at Dave's house in Decatur, Georgia.

This is one of the first songs I wrote when I got "serious" about songwriting in, oh, 2005 or so. It's a love song for my house. This house is an old plain country house, built in 1892. So it's a love-hate kind of relationship. She's big and roomy and creaky and drafty and needs a lot of work. But we sure did love her. I say did because we moved out of there in 2012 and sold her. The new owners tore her down and put up two very nice McMansions. It's hard to drive by there these days. And it's a little hard to listen to this sad song because I wasn't true to it--I did go somewhere and abandon her.
Technical note: This was recorded in a single take using the middle-side microphone technique, with the condenser mic in figure-8 mode and the track panned to left, a copy of the same track panned right and its polarity reversed, the second (dynamic) mic in the middle, and mixed down to a stereo track. The middle-side technique gives a nice, full, wide sound. The room was almost empty during the recording, which gives a hint of a reverb-like effect. No effects were applied to the recording.

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