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Wrote This Song Instead, Mark Urso
An Original by Mark Urso
Epiphone Emperor Joe Pass Guitar
Posted on July 5, 2018
Wrote This Song Instead
I got tabouli on my toes
And a little on my nose
I got in a fight with my woman
About some things in the kitchen
I wrote a song, it was too sad
About some experiences I had
And when I put it to the music
I just couldn’t make it stick
Nothing like the Dead
Rest my aching head
I got ready to go to bed
But then I wrote this song instead
I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison
I got to learn to write a proper line
Locomotives are always good
And a harmonica can set the mood
But ain’t nobody gonna listen
If you’re complaining all the time
I wrote a song, it wasn’t too bad
But it didn’t sound like Johnny Cash
I gots to rest my weary head
So I just wrote this song instead
Neverland, Peter Pan
Remember Rip Van Winkle
And Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz
Hey this is pretty simple!
Snap your fingers! Clap your hands!
Put your grouch in the garbage can!
I ain’t saying the blues is dead
But I done wrote this song instead!
Rat in a drain ditch (...Don't tell my cat!)
Now he's coming up for air (thinkin' he's all that)
Derek and the Dominos (line them all up in a row!)
Put them on the kitchen floor (then go "a-choo!")
Snap your fingers! Clap your hands!
It's simple I tell ya! (... you just got to understand!)
... Water blue ... expanding sand ...
... And now, I'm off to La La Land!
Snap your fingers! Clap your hands!
Put your grouch in the garbage can!
I can't say the blues is dead
But I done wrote this song instead!
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