Booze – foto Smith
Was going to record a country song yesterday so I spent the night before on YouTube with Hank Williams, Kris Kristofferson, Hank Thompson, Roger Miller, Buck Owens, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Lefty Frizzell, Johnny Cash et al seeing what I could beg, borrow and steal for my own deal.
Well I should have spent time with Captain Beefheart and Dr John instead cuz for sure this ain’t no country song, least wise no country I know. Not sure what it is . . . maybe Gravel Rock.
Anyway, here’s Booze Lose Blues at reverbnation.com/play_now/song_12214737.
Music, mix and recording by Peter Ball of Apartment One; voice and words me.
Here are the lyrics; had to chop the original poem and add a chorus to make it fit. Think I like it.
Booze Lose Blues
Oh I gotta small brain, no social skill
frequently off aim, caused a lot of ill
dog’s in the pound, my gal with better fella
I totter around, trying not to teeter
but the one thing I can claim as my crown
I got the longest short term memory gap in town
The liquor cuts a whole in my pocket
while packing pounds on my frame
people whispering I’ve lost it
chasing high instead of game
and they’re right, I’m going down
on the longest short term memory gap in town
Oh I’ve mastered the stumble in tumble and fall
and I’m extra expert at messing it all
but to tell you true I ain’t got no clue
bout these back breaking booze lose blues
That thing I said that I can’t remember
came back to haunt my future en mass
my misses I cover, the rest reassemble
I stink of self and resemble an ass
my sins replicate clones of their own
in long term short memory grasp of the groan
Got holes in my knees from concrete crawling
weepy cheeks from tear beer crying
it’s hard to walk cuz I keep falling
if I said this was fun I’d be lying
but I keep losing truth like a clown
living in long time short term memory gap town
Oh I know how to stumble and tumble and fall
and I’m extra expert at messing it all
but to tell you true I still got no clue
bout breaking these booze lose blues
There are 39 Ball & Smith songs at reverbnation.com/mutantsmith.
Eveland – foto Smith