Its not often that I hit the bottle, but I just happened to have a new 5th of Tullymore Dew sitting on he counter and a hell of a day. Fucking bathroom sink and tub drain backed up and in the process of fixing it I got a shower of Draino infused water when I undid the bathtub trap.
But that's not why I'm bloody pissed. After getting everything fixed and taking a shower to wash the Draino out of my hair and everywhere else, I sat on the front porch with my 1967 Guild F47 and started playing a few tunes with a a glass of Tully. Jesus,Mary and Joseph I know a lot of protest songs. They just started coming out. I mean can you believe I know Bobby Darin's Simple song of freedom.
Then I start playing Eve of destruction.
And the newest song I'm trying to learn, Brett Dennen's, Ain't no reason;
What great lines;
Workin' your fingers bare to the bones Breakin' your back, make you sell your soul Like a lung that's filled with coal Suffocatin' slow
If you've never heard Patrick Sky's "Nectar of God" you've missed a masterpiece :
When I left home my mother said son Go into the world...God almighty now But don't you go wrong So here I sit in a world without pain While the nectar of God.....God almighty now Flows through my veins The green leaves of Autumn they fall from the floor And the inside is outside...God almighty now And I can't find the door Well you ask what's the blues, I'll tell ya if I can It's a ten dollar women...God almighty now And a five dollar man Got the blues in my coffee got the blues in my head If I die in the gutter....God almighty now At least I'd be dead I don't much like livin' but I don't wanna die Cuz if I was dead....God almighty now I'd miss gettin' high
When I left home my mother said son Go into the world...God almighty now But don't you go wrong
So here I sit in a world without pain While the nectar of God.....God almighty now Flows through my veins
The green leaves of Autumn they fall from the floor And the inside is outside...God almighty now And I can't find the door
Well you ask what's the blues, I'll tell ya if I can It's a ten dollar women...God almighty now And a five dollar man
Got the blues in my coffee got the blues in my head If I die in the gutter....God almighty now At least I'd be dead
I don't much like livin' but I don't wanna die Cuz if I was dead....God almighty now I'd miss gettin' high
Anyway that's my evening, drinking and singing some old songs that are as still relevant now as they were when they were written.
There's half a bottle left, have to make a dent.
When will we ever learn??