Blowhard Blues

Bluesball – foto Smith

Fresh musical fruit . . . written and recorded yesterday, posted today, a platter straight off the patter.

Rather like this one; for a blues, it’s quite happy, friendly, a walk in the talk, not blowhard as much as blowsoft . . . here’s the latest Ball & Smith song Blowhard Blues.

Blowhard Blues

I don’t know what I’m thinking singing blues
Don’t know why I keep singing all these blues
I’m more into growl and groaning
Maybe some mellow moaning
Yet every day I battle, every night I bruise

I don’t know why my eyes are high and low
Or why my large left testicle dropped below
My why of webbed toe walking
Or the why these small feet mocking
Or the well meaning folk who feed me crow

Trying to live my life in a minor key
Stunts the wild harmony inside of me
Got no time for cruising need to get to doing
Blast these blowhard blues to better be

Oh I don’t know why my eyes are high and low
Or why my large left testicle dropped below
My why of webbed toe walking
The why these small feet mocking
Or the well meaning folk who feed me crow

I don’t know where they got this might makes right
Makes this gap twixt them and us such a fright
The weather’s worth the watching
While greed is global swarming
So I use this all as blues as poultice

Trying to live my life in a minor key
Crashes wild harmony inside of me
Got no time for cruising, got to get to doing
Blow these blowhard blues to better be

Don’t know why I’m singing the blues
Don’t know why I’m singing all these blues
I’m more a growl and groaning
Maybe mellow moaning
Yet every day I battle, every night I bruise

Walking home the foghorn calling
Dark and damp early rainy morning

— Smith, 8.10.2012

Had to cut one line from each stanza while recording and chop a chorus and repeat a verse to make it fit; that’s why *poultice* doesn’t rhyme with anything . . . used to rhyme with *justice*.

Those last two lines just slipped out as the music moved away so I’ll take them as a grain to accrete a new poem around.

Music, mix, recording Peter Ball of Apartment One; words and voice me.

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Peter Ball mixing music with Hildy – foto Smith