Ray Wylie Hubbard《Mother Blues》[MP3_LRC]

[00:00.00]90听音乐网 www.90T8.com  [00:00.52]Mother Blues - Ray Wylie Hubbard [00:13.56]When I was a young man [00:14.93]About 21 years old y'all [00:17.67]All I wanted was a stripper girlfriend [00:20.21]And a gold top les paul [00:23.13]Be careful of the things you wish for [00:26.54]You might get 'em [00:29.16]There was a night club in dallas [00:33.27]Called mother blues [00:36.35]It's where lightning hopkins played [00:38.90]And freddy king even paid some dues [00:42.27]All the dealers and gamblers [00:43.80]And young white hipsters they all made the scene [00:48.97]The girl at the door who checked id's [00:51.95]Was just 16 [00:55.31]Aw it was not a place for law biding citizens [01:01.77]Jackie Jones he had 'em a habit he just couldn't [01:06.72]Stop [01:08.42]Aaid give me 500 dollars [01:10.81]And I'll sell you my les paul God top [01:14.84]I drove my daddy's car down to ross avenue [01:19.22]And I sold it [01:21.89]I guess I should have told him [01:23.83]He eluded to the police someone stole it [01:28.55]It was just the first of many bad decisions [01:31.61]I was to make for the next 20 years [01:35.62]Oh but I had me a guitar [01:47.97]Everybody knows [01:48.77]That the real nightlife [01:50.08]Begins after the clubs close [01:52.63]What they call after hours [01:57.04]It's 2 a m and everybody's gone [02:00.14]But the band the dealers and Jack Jones [02:03.42]And then the girls from the landing strip club come [02:06.70]Over [02:07.06]After they put their clothes back on [02:09.91]So I'm at ma blues and I'm sitting on an [02:12.75]Amp [02:13.28]I'm playing twist and shout [02:16.23]And this tall drink of water walks in [02:19.60]Like she might have to shoot her way out [02:22.91]She come up to me and she said [02:24.98]You know anything good on that guitar [02:27.28]I didn't say nothing I just kept on playing [02:30.21]She said have you ever heard this song [02:31.99]Called polk salad annie I just kept playing [02:36.55]She said every time I hear that song [02:38.54]My insides feel like warm butter [02:40.61]And I just wanna take off my clothes [02:42.46]And dance around in my underwear [02:45.33]I said down in louisiana [02:48.62]Where the alligator grow so mean [02:53.12]That's all I knew of it and it was enough [02:58.21]So we hit it off me and this dancer [03:01.05]We hit it off like a metaphor [03:03.66]Like a metaphor for a hydrogen bomb [03:08.08]We was enriched uranium super critical mass [03:11.29]We was a chain reaction it was love and lust [03:16.27]Aw mostly lust but a mutual attraction [03:21.52]So there I was boys at 21 years old I [03:25.91]Had it all [03:27.43]I had a fine stripper girlfriend and a gold top [03:32.59]Les paul [03:34.18]Aw the future it looked promising [03:40.62]Oh but there were dark clouds on the horizon [03:47.03]She was a beautiful girl [03:48.71]But she liked to drink tequila and that ain't all [03:54.40]I come home 4 or 5 times [03:56.93]And she pawned my les paul [04:00.65]We broke up and she went to hollywood [04:04.18]She married an actor [04:07.04]She got a job dancing on the hudson brothers tv [04:10.60]Show [04:10.80]And modern lipstick from max factor [04:15.43]I got over her I'm glad she done all right [04:18.82]I'm glad she done all right oh yes I am [04:26.67]Well now me I never busted through the gates [04:29.74]Into the big time as a rock and roll star [04:33.45]For 40 years I just carried around an old gold [04:36.96]Top guitar [04:39.55]But love and fate are mysterious things [04:42.77]In this funky old world [04:46.13]It was 20 years ago I ended up marrying [04:49.93]That mother blues door girl [04:52.71]We had us a boy he's 18 years old now [04:57.40]He's playing guitar [04:59.62]He ended up with that les paul gold top yes [05:02.57]He did [05:05.70]Now I don't know if he's gonna hang his life [05:07.89]On it or not [05:08.68]But I'm very grateful for the time I get to [05:11.28]Share the stage with him [05:13.75]I'm grateful for the time I get to play with [05:15.62]Musicians [05:16.44]Like George Reiff and Rick Richards [05:20.26]I'm grateful that I get to write these old songs [05:22.20]And travel around the world and play them for people [05:24.87]And they come out and hear me play [05:28.24]And the days that I keep my gratitude [05:32.99]Higher than my expectations [05:37.16]Well I have really good days