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[ti:Mother Blues (口白)]
[ar:Ray Wylie Hubbard]
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[00:00.529]Mother Blues - Ray Wylie Hubbard
[00:02.088]Written by：Ray Wylie Hubbard/George Reiff
[00:13.567]When I was a young man
[00:14.931]About 21 years old y'all
[00:17.675]All I wanted was a stripper girlfriend
[00:20.218]And a gold top les paul
[00:23.133]Be careful of the things you wish for
[00:26.540]You might get 'em
[00:29.160]There was a night club in dallas
[00:33.274]Called mother blues
[00:36.355]It's where lightning hopkins played
[00:38.909]And freddy king even paid some dues
[00:42.273]All the dealers and gamblers
[00:43.809]And young white hipsters they all made the scene
[00:48.977]The girl at the door who checked id's
[00:51.959]Was just 16
[00:55.315]Aw it was not a place for law biding citizens
[01:01.777]Jackie Jones he had 'em a habit he just couldn't
[01:06.722]Stop
[01:08.428]Aaid give me 500 dollars
[01:10.812]And I'll sell you my les paul God top
[01:14.847]I drove my daddy's car down to ross avenue
[01:19.220]And I sold it
[01:21.892]I guess I should have told him
[01:23.833]He eluded to the police someone stole it
[01:28.554]It was just the first of many bad decisions
[01:31.612]I was to make for the next 20 years
[01:35.625]Oh but I had me a guitar
[01:47.977]Everybody knows
[01:48.776]That the real nightlife
[01:50.087]Begins after the clubs close
[01:52.635]What they call after hours
[01:57.044]It's 2 a m and everybody's gone
[02:00.141]But the band the dealers and Jack Jones
[02:03.426]And then the girls from the landing strip club come
[02:06.700]Over
[02:07.060]After they put their clothes back on
[02:09.912]So I'm at ma blues and I'm sitting on an
[02:12.750]Amp
[02:13.286]I'm playing twist and shout
[02:16.238]And this tall drink of water walks in
[02:19.604]Like she might have to shoot her way out
[02:22.913]She come up to me and she said
[02:24.983]You know anything good on that guitar
[02:27.285]I didn't say nothing I just kept on playing
[02:30.211]She said have you ever heard this song
[02:31.992]Called polk salad annie I just kept playing
[02:36.558]She said every time I hear that song
[02:38.543]My insides feel like warm butter
[02:40.615]And I just wanna take off my clothes
[02:42.469]And dance around in my underwear
[02:45.336]I said down in louisiana
[02:48.625]Where the alligator grow so mean
[02:53.120]That's all I knew of it and it was enough
[02:58.218]So we hit it off me and this dancer
[03:01.050]We hit it off like a metaphor
[03:03.665]Like a metaphor for a hydrogen bomb
[03:08.089]We was enriched uranium super critical mass
[03:11.293]We was a chain reaction it was love and lust
[03:16.274]Aw mostly lust but a mutual attraction
[03:21.525]So there I was boys at 21 years old I
[03:25.916]Had it all
[03:27.435]I had a fine stripper girlfriend and a gold top
[03:32.594]Les paul
[03:34.187]Aw the future it looked promising
[03:40.628]Oh but there were dark clouds on the horizon
[03:47.032]She was a beautiful girl
[03:48.710]But she liked to drink tequila and that ain't all
[03:54.408]I come home 4 or 5 times
[03:56.930]And she pawned my les paul
[04:00.651]We broke up and she went to hollywood
[04:04.184]She married an actor
[04:07.045]She got a job dancing on the hudson brothers tv
[04:10.605]Show
[04:10.802]And modern lipstick from max factor
[04:15.438]I got over her I'm glad she done all right
[04:18.828]I'm glad she done all right oh yes I am
[04:26.672]Well now me I never busted through the gates
[04:29.742]Into the big time as a rock and roll star
[04:33.458]For 40 years I just carried around an old gold
[04:36.969]Top guitar
[04:39.553]But love and fate are mysterious things
[04:42.772]In this funky old world
[04:46.131]It was 20 years ago I ended up marrying
[04:49.932]That mother blues door girl
[04:52.714]We had us a boy he's 18 years old now
[04:57.405]He's playing guitar
[04:59.629]He ended up with that les paul gold top yes
[05:02.572]He did
[05:05.708]Now I don't know if he's gonna hang his life
[05:07.890]On it or not
[05:08.682]But I'm very grateful for the time I get to
[05:11.288]Share the stage with him
[05:13.755]I'm grateful for the time I get to play with
[05:15.624]Musicians
[05:16.443]Like George Reiff and Rick Richards
[05:20.262]I'm grateful that I get to write these old songs
[05:22.200]And travel around the world and play them for people
[05:24.877]And they come out and hear me play
[05:28.241]And the days that I keep my gratitude
[05:32.991]Higher than my expectations
[05:37.167]Well I have really good days