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Little Boy Blues
05:43
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Little Boy Blues
01/27/11 - FtLd
My daddy-o he loves me so
And his little girl know it’s so
Because he never does
The things he says he’ll do
He shouts, he hits and he roars
And tells my mamma she’s a whore
But he does it all
Just to help me know
That although he sure likes to yell
And makes our lives a living hell
Deep down inside
He’s always smiling at me
Cause everything he does by day
Is to make sure that we can stay
Together and be happy
All the time
And every night he comes around
To play the games that make no sound
That no one else
Knows we ever do
Oh my daddy-o he loves me so
And his little girl knows it’s so
Because he never does
The things he says he’ll do
Now other children like to play
Outside by the light of day
But I am not
Allowed to leave our home
Though my mother shouts that I should
My daddy vows I never will
Until the day
That I am fully grown
Cause the world is fully run by fools
Who are so pitiful and cruel
They will hurt you in
Each and every way
And though deep down I wish I could
My daddy yells I never should
Play with those who lie
And who betray
But at night when we’re all alone
My daddy makes me cry and moan
And promise that
I’ll do everything he says
Oh my daddy-o he loves me so
And his little girl knows it’s so
Because he never does
The things he likes to say
And if others should ever ask
I just turn and give them my back
To prying eyes that have
No right or place
Our lives they are our own
And I promised and I swore
That I’d do anything
My loving daddy said
So no one should ever know
What goes on in our home sweet home
Cause they’re too dumb
And full of jealousy
Yet somehow word gets around
And in the end it all comes down
To what it is
That you want to believe
But I’ll never let them see
How my daddy played with me
And the places where I bruised
And where I bleed
Oh my daddy-o he loves me so
And his little girl knows it’s so
Because of all the things
He said and did to me
Yet now I am all alone
Cause bad men came to our home
And took my daddy off
In tears and shame
And although it could be hard
I never wanted us to part
Cause love is always
Full of hurt and pain
Now they say I’ll never see
My daddy smiling down on me
To use me
And abuse my like a toy
But there’s still just one mystery
That somehow got away from me
And I need to know
To share my daddy’s joy
If he said in all the world
That I’m his only little girl
Why does everyone else say
I’m a little boy
Oh my daddy-o he loves me so
And I know that I’ll see him no more
Cause of what my daddy really did to me
What was it that he wanted me to be
What happens next when I am...
Daddy
verse:
28.49.57 - 45.54.65
47.56.67 - 28.49.57 (all 2x)
chorus:
45.54.65 - 47.56.67 (2x)
28.36.47 - 49.57.68 - 47.56.67
copyright 2011 Robert Ben Mitchell, all rights reserved.
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2. |
Hey Joe
03:24
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Hey Joe
05/23/11 - FtLd
Hey Joe, where you gonna go
I’m a gonna go away
Hey Joe, where you gonna go
I’m a gonna go away
Been down Louisian
The plantations of Alabam
Hey Joe, where you gonna go
I’m a gonna go away
Hey Joe, where you gonna go
I’m a gonna go away
Been down to Love Canal
Three Mile Island and Monongah-l
Hey Joe, where you gonna go
I’m a gonna go away
Hey Joe, where you gonna go
I’m a gonna go away
Been down Kent State too long
And protests at the conventions
Hey Joe, where you gonna go
I’m a gonna go away
Hey Joe, where you gonna go
I’m a gonna go away
Been down to Vietnam
And the killing fields of Cambodians
Hey Joe, where you gonna go
I’m a gonna go away
Hey Joe, where you gonna go
I’m a gonna go away
Been down to Wounded Knee
Walking with the Sioux of Lakota-ee
Hey Joe, where you gonna go
I’m a gonna go away
Hey Joe, where you gonna go
I’m a gonna go away
Been down to Oklahoma City
And New York oh oh what a pity
Hey Joe, where you gonna go
I’m a gonna go away
Hey Joe, where you gonna go
I’m a gonna go away
Been down to Gettysburg
The Titanic and the Hindenburg
Hey Joe, where you gonna go
I’m a gonna go away
Hey Joe, where you gonna go
I’m a gonna go away
Been down to Attica
Alcatraz and McAlester
Hey Joe, where you gonna go
I’m a gonna go away
Hey Joe, where you gonna go
I’m a gonna go away
Been down to Emmett Till
Matthew Shepard and old James Byrd
Hey Joe, where you gonna go
I’m a gonna go away
Hey Joe, where you gonna go
I’m a gonna go away
Hey Joe, where you gonna go
I’m a gonna go away
Hey Joe, oh where did you go
I went away
verse:
37.46.57 (E) - 32.44.54 (F#m)
17.55.63 (Glong) - 37.46.57 (E)
chorus:
35.44.55 (D) - Amf4 (C#m)
Amf2 (Bm) - 27.36.47 (A) (all 2x)
copyright 2011 Robert Ben Mitchell, all rights reserved.
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3. |
I'll Be On My Way
04:57
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I’ll Be On My Way
1993 - NMB
The meat is grinding in the store downstairs
The traffic’s piling up in the air
The prisoners line up wondering where
They’re going to
Hey how ‘bout you
And all the misery played out last night
Has disappeared with the morning light
And love is just the chance you’ll run into
Someone who
Is someone new
And I can’t tell you where the secrets lay
They’ve been swept into the ocean
They’ve been driven far away
And all your deeds are legend
Though your maps are in decay
Won’t you please give me direction
And I’ll be on my way
I’ll be on my way
And if I made a promise that I did not keep
To take you with me when I leave
Don’t argue with the one who takes your lead
It’s not fair
Oh don’t you care
Cause we’re growing up and sometimes getting down
Pick up your pieces and keep moving around
It’s not enough to say you knew me then
No not when
Once again it’s a living
And I can’t tell you where the secrets lay
They’ve been swept into the ocean
They’ve been driven far away
And all your deeds are legend
Though your maps are in decay
Won’t you please give me direction
And I’ll be on my way
I’ll be on my way
And god is turning out a million more each day
The devil just laughs because he loves to take away
And if their reasons don’t make no sense
It’s okay
It’s okay
So go ahead and leave your heart outside
Then lock your door and see if you can hide
From something that’s growing deep down inside
I just pray
Help me through another day
And I can’t tell you where the secrets lay
They’ve been swept into the ocean
They’ve been driven far away
And all your deeds are legend
Though your maps are in decay
Won’t you please give me direction
And I’ll be on my way
I’ll be on my way
verse:
C - 32.42 - Am
C - 32.42 - Am
C - 32.42 - Am
F - G
chorus:
F - G - C
32.42 - Am
F - G
32.42 - 21.32.62
F - G
copyright 1993 Robert Ben Mitchell, all rights reserved.
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4. |
If I Were
03:35
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If I Were
02/02/12 - FtLd
If I were Errol Flynn
I’d be swinging from a rope
Yeah I’d be swash-buckling
If I were Charlie Chaplin
I’d make you laugh, I’d make you cry
I’d make you think again
Yet somehow
Things seem so different today
Not like when Mickey Rooney said
Come on kids lets put on a play
But sometimes I just don’t know what to say
So won’t you please tell Katharine Hepburn
Everything will be okay
If I were the King and Queen of Spain
I could wave my hand and send you off
To discover anything
If I were Mahatma Gandhi
I could open up your heart
And make you really see
Yet somehow
Things seem so different today
Not like when Molly Brown turned around
To save who she could save
But sometimes I just don’t know what to say
So won’t you please tell Katharine Hepburn
Everything will be okay
If I were Rock Hudson
Living in a world without AIDS
And without sin
If I were Martin Luther King
Trying to help everyone
Share in the dream
Yet somehow
Things seem so different today
Not like when Micky Mantel’s bat
Took the Yankees all the way
But sometimes I just don’t know what to say
So won’t you please tell Katharine Hepburn
Everything will be okay
verse:
G - Amf2 (Bm) - Am7 - C (2x)
chorus:
35.45.53 - 45.55.63
35.47.57 - 23.35.45
35.45.53 - 45.55.63
36.45.54 - 33.42.53
copyright 2012 Robert Ben Mitchell, all rights reserved.
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5. |
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Copper Penny (Living On The Edge)
09/10/85 - WPB
Copper penny and silver wine
Hold you breath and walk on by
There is no respect
When you’re living on the edge
City streets and sewer lines
Drive all night to find the time
For relief from the sledge
That’s hammering your head
Silver bullets and looking glass
See the knights as they charge past
Search the sky that’s overcast
To know what you regret
But if you think it is
Then I think it’s alright
Cause if you think it is
Then it must be alright
Ricochets and true romance
Grab your hat and circumstance
Try to be recalcitrant
To what’s between your eyes
Live it up and live it down
Your friends they come and go around
But I will be with you my love
Til the moment you decide
And when you leave you’ll linger on
In my mind and in this song
Until I rearrange your host
Of memories and lies
But if you think it is...
(break)
Happy days and longer nights
Feel the sweat, taste the bite
Circulate your mischief
That captivates your life
Hold my hand, feel my chest
Make commitments you’ll forget
And if the morning comes too quick
You can always recognize
There’s no way in and no way out
You live each moment with some doubt
Until you do negotiate
The terms by which you die
But if you think it is...
(repeat first verse)
verse:
52.32 - 52.31
G+21 - G
D+13 - D
42.23 - A7
chorus:
Eb3 - Eb5
52.32 - 52.31
(all 2x)
inter:
52.32 - 52.31
F#m - Glong
42.23 - 42.22
(bandana style)
copyright 1985 Robert Ben Mitchell, all rights reserved.
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6. |
Night Shift
03:28
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Night Shift
03/14/14 - FtLd
Get off the night shift
Throw them dice slick
And tell me which way
Things go today
Shoe shine boy got hot tips
Stock market’s where it’s
All happening
Or at least that’s what they say
Cause I work the night shift
Throwing switch after switch
I keep things moving along their way
Yeah I work the night shift
Through all the darkness
And then I sleep away the rest of the day
Red lights blinking
Got me thinking that
There’s got to be a better way
Sun shine all the time
But never on my dime
Feels like I’m living in an early grave
Cause I work the night shift....
Mary says now
You ain’t been round
Since workin
At that factory
I say don’t wait up now
Cause it don’t matter any
How long I work
So long as it pays
Cause I work the night shift....
So get off the night shift
And tell that paper bo
I can’t roll them dice
No mo
verse:
35.44.55 - 37.46.57
47.57.65 - 47.58.68
35.44.55 - 37.46.57
47.57.65 - Glong
chorus:
Ef1 - Glong
47.57.65 - Glong
Ef1 - Glong
410.510.68 - 37.46.58
tune:
EADGBE to EADGCC
copyright 2014 Robert Ben Mitchell, all rights reserved.
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Solo of Promulgade (instrumental)
2013 - FtLd
Amf1 - 22.33.44.54 - Ef3 - Ef5 (2-3x)
Ef7+39 - Ef5+37 - 23.44.52 - Ef2 (or 27.36.48.59)
212.412.510 - Ef5+37 - 27.36.48.59 - (Af10) - Af9
(rolling pick - 6x with faster change overs)
copyright 2013 Robert Ben Mitchell, all rights reserved.
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