Did You ever get real drunk and have a song pop into Your head? “It’s the Muse! Penetrating the fog and delivering this marvelous gift!” You franticly write it down. You read it the next morning (around noon) and it’s the worst piece of $#!+ You ever saw. This is one of those. Yeah, no one ever does one of those songs for You. We just ball them up and throw them away or delete them as fast as we can, thanking the Good Lord that nobody saw ‘em. So I thought I’d trot one out, run it up the flagpole and let the cat sniff it.

 

Hobo Whiskey Woman

 

Ain’t no whiskey like my woman on a freight train

She hopped me like a hobo headed south

Ruled only by the season and the high cost of Heaven

She conducted her caboose like she was burnin down the house.

 

Ain’t no campfire like my hobo whiskey woman

Lord, she’s a grease cake natural surprise

Glowin through the wax of a deep, patchouli candle

Dancin snappin mackerel in the Scrooge light of her eyes

 

Glora zannah ordy lou a hoo yah

Ring them golden slipper tongues for me

Pavin on the walkin streets of Jordan

Chili river peppers ain’t but all it’s gonna be

 

Ain’t no blues song like my woman blowin smoke rings

Text message monkey on the phone

That thing between her golden lies reminds me

Of fishy onions fryin on a garlic trombone

 

Ain’t no ’57 Cadillac horn honkin

Like my woman goin full-tilt porcupine

I’ll believe it when the rapture gets a flat tire

From leavin skid marks on this mind of mine

 

Rock a hula glory zan a loo yah

Hostess cakes and pearly gates and wine

All aboard for score with seven angels

Left danglin like a silk purse on the vine

 

Cheese banana peanut butter freight train

Stoned idol itchin on a fuzzy tree

The cannonball stalled, and Casey, he’s a cussin

Huffin and puffin, waitin for You and me

And Jerry Lee

 

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Bonus: The World's Worse Blues Song: Woke Up This Mawnin

 

 

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