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Jockey Full of Bourbon

from Judas Goat by Big Daddy T Band

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A wonderful Tom Waits composition that I first heard in a Jim Jarmusch film. I felt like I could do it justice if a did a slower version and really put the light on the lyrics, although I did make a change here and there.

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Jockey Full of Bourbon

Edna Million in a drop dead suit
Dutch pink on a downtown train
Two dollar pistol but the gun won't shoot
I'm in the corner in the pouring rain

16 men on a dead man's chest
And I've been drinking from a broken cup
2 pairs of pants and a mohair vest
I'm full of bourbon; I can't stand up.

Hey little bird, fly away home
Your house is on the fire; your children all alone
Hey little bird, fly away home
Your house is on the fire; your children all alone[

Schiffer broke a bottle on Morgan's head
And I've been stepping on the devil's tail
Across the stripes of a full moon's head
Through the bars of a Cuban jail

Bloody fingers on a purple knife
Flamingo drinking from a cocktail glass
I'm on the lawn with someone else's wife
Admire the view from on top of the mast
Chorus

Yellow sheets in a Hong Kong bed
Stazybo horn and a Slingerland ride
To the carnival is what she said
A hundred dollars makes it dark inside

16 men on a dead man's chest
And I've been drinking from a broken cup
2 pairs of pants and a mohair vest
I'm full of bourbon; I can't stand up.

credits

from Judas Goat, released March 26, 2018
Chris Mulkey Recitation
Tony Wisler Upright Bass/Vocals
Stan Harrison Organ
Joe Chellman Drums
D. A. McCormick Resonator Guitar/Piano/Vocals
Hector Barrera Lead Guitar

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Big Daddy T Band Atlanta, Georgia

Influenced by a wide range of blues styles – ranging from 20’s jazz and country blues from the 30s, electric Chicago-style blues, and the electric blues rock of the first wave of English interpreters of the blues – bassist and vocalist Tony “Big Daddy T” Wisler has distilled it all to create a unique style of house-rockin’ blues that goes well beyond the expected 12-bar format. ... more

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