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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
No Reunion Blues
O.K. So here's the plan.
Lets write a collective Blues...But first the rules.
Forgive me for going academic on you, but you have to repeat the first two lines, which are actually one line, twice. Then you cap it with the last two lines, which are actually one line. There is no chorus.
Example (not a submission):
Got the bullshit blues, cause what can a white boy do.
Got the bullshit blues, cause what can a white boy do.
I may be rich and white, so how come I'm so blue.
Now my first instinct would be to make that last line ".... so how come I feel so blue". That would scan better, but a real blues singer would use my original line and just make a five syllable word out of "blue". This may be what they mean by "black magic".
Now let me go think of something. We're in E, right?
I thought for a while I should have started out with something simpler, like maybe a nursery rhyme. Well academia be damned!
Got holes in all my skivies I got holes in all my shoes Yea I got holes in both my skivies 'n I got holes in both my shoes Been so long since our last visit Got dem No Paradox Reunion Blues
In the spirit of full disclosure, I'm about to knowingly break my own semi-official rules, to wit:
Got a No Reunion jones Ah feel it pulsin'in my vein Got a No Reunion jones its even pulsin'in my brain Ain't no Paradox Reunion planned No Paradox Reunion Blues again
Yes Rik, We've seen the movie several times, Bob told me it was Merle who sang the song, Bob was so inspired by M.T. in his youth. At the time we loved the movie, that was back in the stone age, maybe today I'd think it was corney, need to see it again, I've noticed that movies I loved when I was 20 don't do it for me anymore, maybe some of them do. I'll need to write a blues verse on this subject huh......
16 comments:
Woke up in Montana
My tomatoes had froze
I love Nevada City
Where the music grows and grows
Got the no reunion blues.....
All the way to my shoes.....
The Paradox still lives
as do these no reunion blues.
Oops, sorry. I think I just broke the rules. Forget that last part.
Great start Diane. We never were the kind of people that followed rules anyway.
Forgive me for going academic on you, but you have to repeat the first two lines, which are actually one line, twice. Then you cap it with the last two lines, which are actually one line. There is no chorus.
Example (not a submission):
Got the bullshit blues, cause what can a white boy do.
Got the bullshit blues, cause what can a white boy do.
I may be rich and white, so how come I'm so blue.
Now my first instinct would be to make that last line ".... so how come I feel so blue". That would scan better, but a real blues singer would use my original line and just make a five syllable word out of "blue". This may be what they mean by "black magic".
Now let me go think of something. We're in E, right?
Remember the old army song "Reinlistment Blues"? I think it would be a good model. Here is a sample.
My gig was up Sunday
No pay for my music no more
No money no more
Been reachin' down so deep
You know my pockets is sore
My pockets am sore
Got nothin' left to choose
Got those no reunion blues..
Bob
Academic in E...?
We all know little e
really equals m c squared.
What they tell me 'bout string theory
Leaves me feeling in despair.
Got the no reunion blues.....
All the way to my shoes.....
(oops, that's two rules broken)
Good one Bob!
Went to the station
Cause my tank was near dry
My tank was near dry....
It took all my money
What the use to even try ...
I got them no paradox reunion blues
Helen
They just get better and better... I'm singing along as I read.
I thought for a while I should have started out with something simpler, like maybe a nursery rhyme.
Well academia be damned!
Got holes in all my skivies
I got holes in all my shoes
Yea I got holes in both my skivies
'n I got holes in both my shoes
Been so long since our last visit
Got dem No Paradox Reunion Blues
In the spirit of full disclosure, I'm about to knowingly break my own semi-official rules, to wit:
Got a No Reunion jones
Ah feel it pulsin'in my vein
Got a No Reunion jones
its even pulsin'in my brain
Ain't no Paradox Reunion planned
No Paradox Reunion Blues again
Excellent!
Next stop, the Paradox Blues Band.
But surely there are more lyrics lurking out there?
Stand by...I'm bringin' in the BIG GUNS!Steve & Ralph are now working on verses. Spread the word.
We've got to get those two on a computer....!
In the meantime, we have others out there who must have at one time or another sung the blues?
Me, I just live 'em
Helen, did you know that "Re-Enlistment Blues" was a Merle Travis song? That's him singing it in the barracks scene in "From Here to Eternity.
Yes Rik, We've seen the movie several times, Bob told me it was Merle who sang the song, Bob was so inspired by M.T. in his youth. At the time we loved the movie, that was back in the stone age, maybe today I'd think it was corney, need to see it again, I've noticed that movies I loved when I was 20 don't do it for me anymore, maybe some of them do. I'll need to write a blues verse on this subject huh......
I dug this old movie.....
filmed in 58....
in 1958....
watched again last night....
didn't think it so great.....
nothin's seems the same...
I got them no reunion blues.....
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