Name: Beer Can Island (YouTube Version)
Duration: P00H03M18S
Description: A collaboration with poet Jordan Escobar, this song is based on the real life Beer Can Island. It recalls growing up in Tampa Florida with an underage booze connection and a 12 foot aluminum john boat.

Beer Can Island (YouTube Version)

by Raley Beggs and Jordan Escobar

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$1 USD or more

about

A collaboration with poet Jordan Escobar, this song is based on the real life Beer Can Island. It recalls growing up in Tampa Florida with an underage booze connection and a 12 foot aluminum john boat.

lyrics

Beer Can Island by Jordan Escobar

This mound of pagans perched
fifteen miles from the coast
of Tampa. Hot buzz and the swarm
of little fish beneath the outrigger.
Fifteen miles in fifteen years,
a smudge of sweat like a whisper
of mustache on their trembling lips.
Quivering beyond shuttled rage,
beyond rattling cans and the pleading
look of a boy outside a liquor store.
Hey Mister, more a demand than a question.
And what booted God could deny youth
their deliverance? An aluminum prow
and the green paint peeling. This is
what it feels like to feed a life:
a warm slurp, a husky choke,
eyes that roll back to nothingness
and see everything.

credits

released December 4, 2019

license

about

Raley Beggs Florida

I like making music

Songs with words, songs without them

raleybeggs.com

contact / help

Contact Raley Beggs

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Beer Can Island (YouTube Version), you may also like:

I Used To Be Sad & Then I Forgot
by Mr. Alec Bowman_Clarke

Alec Bowman perfectly captures the dark soil under the pastoral world of British folk with this collection of melancholy originals. Bandcamp New & Notable May 12, 2020
go to album
Sidekick
by Chris Hyson

Neoclassical-tinged ambient music with a romantic bent, awash in elegant jazz pianos, enchanting vocals, and softly strummed guitars. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 5, 2023
go to album
The St Buryan Sessions
by Sarah McQuaid

Recorded live at St Buryan Church, the latest from Sarah McQuaid is a showcase for the simple power of voice & guitar. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 16, 2021
go to album
The Room
by Fabiano do Nascimento & Sam Gendel

featured on Bandcamp Radio Jan 9, 2024
go to album
A Place Like Home
by Mr. Alec Bowman_Clarke

The new EP from Scottish songwriter Alec Bowman_Clarke goes deep, setting vulnerable lyrics to gentle melodies & stripped-back arrangements. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 30, 2021
go to album
Isasa
by Isasa

Isasa makes contemplative and emotionally rich fingerstyle guitar in the mode of John Fahey and Jack Rose. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 11, 2021
go to album
Lionize EP
by Take Berlin

featured on Bandcamp Radio Dec 3, 2013
go to album