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Middle Class White Boy Blues

from Middle Class White Boy Blues by Andrew London

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Blues song from a slightly different perspective

lyrics

Well I would like to be a blues man
but I don't live a blues man's life
Yes I would like to be a blues man
but I don't live a blues man's life
but I got a good job in the city
and a faithfull dog & wife

2.
I don't drink no rotgut whiskey
prefer a Hawkes Bay Pinot Gris
don't ride a freight train to Chicago
no jar of moonshine on my knee
When I catch the unit up to Paekak
I take a thermos full of tea....

Bridge
Yes I woke up late this evening
to find nobody been gone & done me wrong
I had to ask my wife to leave me
just so as I could write this song

3.
I got a five-bedroom house in Brooklyn
That's an Audi in the drive
I got apartments down on the waterfront
from which some income is derived
I got a mid life crisis looming
thank God my Harley just arrived

Bridge 2.
Told the Devil down at the crossroads
'Man, you can have my soul today'
He said ‘well I guess I may as well, son
you sure don't use it when you play’

4.
I would like to be a bluesman
but I don't wear no blues man's shoes
yes I would like to be a bluesman
but I ain't paid no bluesman's dues
I just don’t have enough to moan about
Got those Middle Class White Boy Blues.

credits

from Middle Class White Boy Blues, released June 1, 2013
Words and Music by Andrew London
Andrew London: Guitar & Vox
Kirsten London: bass & BVs
Nils Olsen: sax & BVs

Recorded & mastered at Matrix Digital Studios Wellington
Engineers Phill Adams and Troy Leamy

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Andrew London New Zealand

New Zealand singer/songwriter of mainly (but not exclusively) satirical original songs in a mainly (but not exclusively) 1940s swing genre.

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