Music and Words by J. Boor
Every year, sometime in May, I think that I will record John Elwood Cook’s “Memorial Day” and publish it on Memorial Day. This year I made a sincere effort at the last minute. I failed to meet the deadline, but wound up with a different Cook song, plus a redo of my own “Ayahuasca” from …
If you’re playing something and it starts to sound enough like “Shortnin Bread” to remind you of “Shortnin Bread,” then it’s going to wind up at “Shortnin Bread” before long. So you might as well just call it “Shortnin Bread” and let it happen. That’s what I did and I have no regrets.
jermboor.net/snd/10ftsqHut.2.mp3 Ah, what the heck. The Words: The river flows and goes; it’s on unceasingly. Whatever water is, it’s other than it’s gonna be. Bubbles on the surface disappear; they don’t for long. And all the nippers that I knew back in the day are gone. Seen a tremor. Seen a fire. Seen a typhoon. …
Here’s a Billy Joe Shaver song for all you broke folks out there.
This is one of those songs in which I merely take some real events and make them rhyme. The color of the pickup truck has been changed for metrical reasons. The Words: Well, the first time you met my family It was Uncle Bud’s Interment. He was in an igloo cooler In a yellow pickup …