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Friday 10 #7

The morning after blues, from my head down to my shoes

Edit: Make sure to check out Glen’s Friday 10!

Last week’s answers are up, four folks guessed eight. Nice to break the seven streak.

I dropped out of listening to popular music for a bit, especially pop country, so imagine my surprise when I found out many years later that the guy from Hootie and the Blowfish had become a huge star thanks to a cover of an Old Crow Medicine Show song. Not only that, but OCMS’s “Wagon Wheel” had become so popular to cover it’s become a punchline.

The OCMS song in the set of ten, “James River Blues,” is a favorite of mine because it turns the railroad song on its head. In this one, trains are the new technology destroying livelihoods, not an object of nostalgia.

“Whatever It Was” by Greg Brown is also a favorite of mine. Greg Brown’s been around for ages and reminds me a bit Tom Waits, James McMurtry, and Steve Earle. I loved this song when it came out. I was in my twenties, but have since grown into the cynicism.

My generation takes what it can get. Are you surprised the kids are all upset? They’re looking at nothing, nothing turns away and yawns

Enough talk! The rules:

  1. No searchin’
  2. Both song and artist, please
  3. Covers OK if I can find ‘em

Now here’s ten lyrics I found while searching through the fragments of my dream-shattered sleep.

This week’s lyrics:

  1. Here's looking and you kid, missing all the things we did
    Key Largo, Bertie Higgins
    Guessed by
    Lazlo Hollyfeld
  2. You might run on for a long time, run on duckin' and dodgin'
    Run On, Bill Landford and the Landfordaires, Blind Boys of Alabama, Odetta, Moby
    Guessed by
    Glen
  3. Across the North and South to Key Largo, love for sale
    Smooth Operator, Sade
    Guessed by
    Sidney
  4. We've come too far to give up who we are
    Get Lucky, Daft Punk
    Guessed by
    Ovi Demetrian Jr
  5. You know I've been through it when I set my watch back to it
    Tulsa Time, Don Williams
  6. Now I'm serving time for mistakes made by another in another lifetime
    Galileo, Indigo Girls
    Guessed by
    Glen
  7. I ain't got punch lines, I got kick lines
    P's and Q's, Kano
  8. Just let me lay back and grin like a monkey
    Brickyard Blues, 3 Dog Night
    Guessed by
    Frodis Caper
  9. I spent the groceries and half the rent, like fourteen dollars and twenty-seven cents
    Dang Me, Roger Miller
    Guessed by
    Sidney
  10. The less we say about it the better, make it up as we go along
    This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody), Talking Heads
    Guessed by
    Ovi Demetrian Jr

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