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You Don't Play By The Rules

from Middle Class White Boy Blues by Andrew London

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Contemplative ballad in the Western Swing style.

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well you know about cards and you know about dice
So how come you just can’t play nice
You don’t play fair and you don’t play by the rules

I know you like to win and I know you like to cheat
things don’t go your way you just can’t take the heat
You don’t play fair and you don’t play by the rules

I guess somebody somewhere must have told you it’s OK
You can play it any way you please
Sure not gonna beg, but I ain’t gonna stick around
you had your chance & let me down’ Im packin’ up & leaving town

Gave you second chances and I think I’ve had enough
you know about lots of stuff but you don’t know much about love
You don’t play fair and you don’t play by the rules

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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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