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Snake Skin
02:15
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8 Bar Blues
04:08
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IIt was down at Old Joe’s bar
On the corner of the square
They were serving drinks to me
By my left stood Big John Lee
One bourbon… one scotch… one beer…
I'll take another shot of booze
One bourbon… one scotch… one beer…
I've got those gamblers blues
Look his eyes were bloodshot red
I just thought that he was dead
It was down at Old Joe’s bar
On the corner of the square
They were serving drinks to me
By my left stood Big John Lee
My women wherever she is
She’s the sweeties’ girl for me
Shinning that pool so fine
Hey Hooker – Fuckoff she’s mine!
One bourbon… one scotch… one beer…
I'll take another shot of booze
One bourbon… one scotch… one beer…
I've got those gamblers blues
Look his eyes were bloodshot red
I just thought that he was dead
We sat there, drinking, gettin’ stoned…
… And we sat there, drunk, feeling mellow…
“Is that a flying horse? Or is it one leg Kunt?!”
One bourbon… one scotch… one beer…
I'll take another shot of booze
One bourbon… one scotch… one beer…
I've got those gamblers blues
Look his eyes were bloodshot red
I just thought that he was dead
8 bar… 8 bar Blues! B
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3. |
Debt to the bone
05:05
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Hey man, do you know your made outta mud?
If you’re poor… made out of muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
A mind that’s weak but a back that’s strong
Working, running, fighting, pushing – What do you get?
Struggling, starving, rushing, hustling – Covered in sweat
Working, running, fighting, pushing – What do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt!
Hey man, I was born when the sun didn’t shine
Picked up my shovel and walked to the mine
Father don’t you call me, because I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store
Working, running, fighting, pushing – What do you get?
Struggling, starving, rushing, hustling – Covered in sweat
Working, running, fighting, pushing – What do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt!
Loaded 16 tons of number nine coal
And the straw boss said, “well, a-bless my soul”
[Solo]
Loaded 16 tons… Death blessed your soul
Working, running, fighting, pushing – What do you get?
Struggling, starving, rushing, hustling – Covered in sweat
Working, running, fighting, pushing – What do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt!
If you see me comin’
Better step aside
A lotta men didn’t
A lotta men died
One fist of iron
The other of steel
If the right one don’t get you
Then the left one will
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4. |
Trondheim, New Mexico
06:25
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Deep down in Trondheim, north of New Mexico
Way back in the woods among the Joshua’s shadows
there stood a cabin made of earth and wood
where lived a boy named Johnny Bjorn Goode
Go Johnny, go…
Spread the evil through the (Jukes in the) snow
Go Johnny, go…
Playing through the dustbowl
He used to carry his guitar in a coffin sack
Sit beneath the tree by the railroad track
People passing by they would stop and say
“Oh my, that´s Emperor?!” This hellish boy can play
Go Johnny, go…
Spread the evil through the (Jukes in the) snow
Go Johnny, go…
Playing through the dustbowl
Good-bye, good-bye, good-bye, to everything!
Shouted Johnny to the desert winds
Gonna leave my house, my mama and my kin
So I can spread the word “metal is no sin”
Good-bye, good-bye, good-bye, to everything!
Shouted Johnny to the desert winds
I went to the crossroads, fell down on my knees
Satan… take me!
His mother told him “Someday you’ll be a man
And you’ll be the leader of a metal band…
Maybe someday your name will be in lights
Saying “Black Metal Johnny Tonight!”
Go Johnny, go…
Spread the evil through the (Jukes in the) snow
Go Johnny, go…
Playing through the dustbowl
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5. |
Shuffle with the devil
04:21
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Yeah, shuffle with the devil… Yeah, shuffle with the devil…
Play your four eleven, then pack your bags and go
I lost all my money, with four eleven and forty-four
Play your four eighteen, I’m sure you got it fixed
You took all my money, with four eighteen and fifty-six
Yeah, shuffle with the devil - Can’t lose my money roll
Yeah, shuffle with the devil - Now I lost my happy home
Play your three sixteen, go buy a Gatling gun
I lost all my money, with three sixteen and sixty-one
Play your three fifteen, I might have lost my mind
You took all my money, with three fifteen and fifty-nine
Yeah, shuffle with the devil - Can’t lose my money roll
Yeah, shuffle with the devil - Now I lost my happy home
Gambling ain’t just luck
It´s timing and some skill
Some gamble for the fun
Some gamble for the thrill
To define what it means
To risk what you’ve earned
Throughout all your thoughts
And everything you learned
Began to play some poker and lost my every cent
Now I can’t pay my mortgage… I’m living in a tent
To win it back I chose to double down at the track
The first horse I bet on fell and broke his back
I picked a dog in the fifth race because I liked is name
It was the best I’ve heard “I’m sorry that you came”
The odds were slim but what the hell I was gambling just for fun
I won’t tell you how he did it, my bloody dog had won!
Shuffle with the devil
Shuffle with the devil
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6. |
Trouble on my mind
03:53
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Drivin´ down the road, oh I’m feeling so fast
Said, drivin´ down the road and feeling so fast
That´s from the speed in my nose and the Jack in my head
Drivin´ down the road in my Cadi’ Deville
Radio’s playing loud fells like hell on the wheel
Radio’s playing Sabbath and I’m shiftin´ gear
Got my pills mixed up, so I´m high and low
The car´s running wild, got no brakes through the hole
Got my pills mixed up, so I’m low and high
Like the dormouse said? “Got to feed you head!”
Been drivin´ all night, still feeling so fast
Popping them mushroom to get home at last
Drivin´ all night, handshakes on the steel
Baby calls and says “I need to feel!”
Baby’s callin’ “Daddy, I need you here!”
Got my pills mixed up, so I´m high and low
The car´s running wild, got no brakes through the hole
Got my pills mixed up, so I’m low and high
Like the dormouse said? “Got to feed you head!”
Got my pills mixed up, so I´m high and low
The car´s running wild, got no brakes through the hole
Got my pills mixed up, so I’m low and high
Like the dormouse said? “Got to feed you head!”
…feed you head… feed you head… feed you head!
Drivin´ down the road, oh I’m feeling so fast…
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7. |
Buck old blues
03:57
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I'm broke and hungry, ragged and dirty too
I said I'm broke and hungry, ragged and dirty too
I'm motherless, father, sister and brother too
I said I'm motherless, father, sister and brother too
But it's my life baby, don't try to change my ways
Well if you want my loving, don't make no graveyard play
I said it's my life baby, don´t you want? Just let me know,
So, I can leave at once and hunt me someone else to go!
Oh girl!
I said I'm broke and hungry, ragged and dirty too
I said I'm motherless, father, sister and brother too
But it's my life baby, don't try to change my ways
Well if you want my loving, don't make no graveyard play (Oh no!)
I said it's my life baby, don´t you want? Just let me know,
So, I can leave at once and hunt me someone else to go!
Troubles I’ve had’en all my life
They gonna’ shadow me to my grave
You're always sayin’ that I drink too much
but every time you add your little touch
Broke, hungry, ragged… dirty!
Broke, hungry, ragged… dirty!
You miss me woman, count the days I'm gone
Gonna’ go to build a road of my own
The mailman passed but I got no news
That’s why I’m singing this buck old blues!
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8. |
Jack's old road
04:00
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Hit that same old road Jack…
Hey woman don’t you treat me so bad
The wickedest woman that I ever had
Go out and buy me that good old Gin
New clothes and a pack of sin
She gives me money when I'm in need
Yeah, she's that kind of gal indeed
Woman woman don’t you treat me so mean
The meanest woman that I ever seen
Hit the road, come back no more
Hit the road, Jack’s back to score
What do you say?!
Hit the road, come back no more
Hey woman don’t you treat me so bad
The wickedest woman that I ever had
Bourbon whiskey with a shot of grin
Saddle shoes shinning o’ so clean
She’s there to love me both night and day
Never grumbles, always keeps me sane
Woman woman don’t you treat me so mean
The meanest woman that I ever seen
Hit the road, come back no more
Hit the road, Jack’s back to score
What do you say?!
Hit the road, come back no more
Hit the road Jack… hit the road Jack…
Hit the road Jack… hit the road Jack…
Hit the road Jack… hit the road Jack…
Hit the road Jack… hit the road Jack…
Hit the road Jack… and don’t cha come back no more…
Hit the road Jack… and don’t cha come back no more…
Hit the road Jack… and don’t cha come back no more…
Hit the road Jack… No more, no more, no more!
Hit the road, come back no more
Hit the road, Jack’s back to score
What do you say?!
Hit the road, come back no more
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9. |
Gator tattoo
03:53
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Proud beer belly and an ugly grin
Toothless smile, they say I look like sin
One look at me, them ho’s go “eww”
(But they) can’t stop staring at my gator tattoo
Got home from work and I just got paid
Gonna polish up nice, the gator’s getting laid
Going to the roudhouse – Got myself a beer
Them bitches are slick - The end is always near
Drive up and down, V8 full of class
Look at me wrong and I’ll beat up your ass
How I get all them bitches, you ain’t got a clue
You can call it magic of my gator tattoo
I go to chez Madame’s and show off my money
I say “I’m horny as hell… What will this get me, honey?”
Going to the roudhouse – Got myself a beer
Them bitches are slick - The end is always near
“Keep your eyes on the road, your hand upon the wheel…”
“Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel…”
Going to the roudhouse – Got myself a beer
Them bitches are slick - The end is always near
Going to the roudhouse – Got myself a beer
Them bitches are slick - The end is always near
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10. |
Skanky legs
04:01
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Hey, this is a story about a ‘gal… an evil woman… how liked to swing…
Skanky Legs!
Skanky Legs!
Dark gloomy club, they were dealing games
I had plenty of money but they wouldn't let me stay
They raided the joint – Took everybody down but me
They raided the joint – I was laughing as high as I could be
Some were playing blackjack, some were playing skin
I had plenty of money but they wouldn't let me in
They raided the joint – Took everybody down but me
They raided the joint – I was laughing as high as I could be
I’m not a stranger, a dirty dog
Ate up all the chops, gave me the tail of the hog
They were drinking gin, drinking so fast
Gave me some “King Kong”, couldn't find a dirty glass
Dancing in the kitchen, Boogie in the hall
Heard some knocking… in walked the law!
I’m gonna get you, get you so bad
I’m gonna get you and be the last to laugh
I said I’d get you, get you so bad
I said I’d get you, now I’m the last to laugh
Yeah, still talking about that ‘gal… evil woman… still likes to swing…
Skanky Legs!
Skanky Legs!
Skanky Legs!
Skanky Legs!
You’re so dead!
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In the Summer of 2020, Black Bird Dave set out to finally orchestrate a criminal plan he had been plotting for years: to
perform the ultimate assault on the Blues.
For his new gang, he enrolled two long time partners in crime - Tony the Gun and Claude the Duke and, to complete the set up, Old Boy Kim was dragged out of his pre-retirement.
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