Week #4 Song #4 - 2012 Song A Week Challenge

Since this challenge started, we've been joking around, saying "Only 51 more to go. Only 50 more to go...", and that gave me the idea for this song, "49 More To Go". Actually, there was only 48 more to go when I finished writing this, but it took a week for the one line to turn into a song for me.


This tune is done in a Bluegrass style. Or an old folk song style I guess. I overdubbed banjo and lead guitar on it as well.

Hope you enjoy it, and as always, please leave a comment here on the blog, or on Facebook or Twitter, to let me know what you think.

Cheers,
Tom





these last 3 weeks been hard as hell
49 more to go x2

You say you got problems I'm sure you do
But i've got enough of my own

these last 3 weeks been hard as hell
49 more to go



Got no money to pay the rent
11 more months to go x2

don't even have enough collateral
to get myself a pay day loan

Got no money to pay the rent
11 more months to go




the preacher says i should pray to god
he's the only who gives a damn x2

well he didn't say that exactly
but that's how interpreted the man

the preacher says i should pray to god
he's the only who gives a damn




but i think i'll just go rob a bank
seems like the smartest thing to do x2

Get myself a bag of cash
maybe take a caribbean cruise

but i think i'll just go rob a bank
seems like the smartest thing to do



60/40 split if you drive the car
to make our get away x2

And if you got a buddy's place where we can stay
maybe lay low for a few days

60/40 split if you drive the car
to make our get away



Turned out I didn't have the nerve
to go through with it after all x2

Life can be hard , it can be real tough
But I'm in it for the long haul

Turned out I didn't have the nerve
to go through with it after all




these last 3 weeks been hard as hell
49 more to go x2

You say you got problems I'm sure you do
But i've got enough of my own

these last 3 weeks been hard as hell
49 more to go






credits
from 2012 Song​-​A​-​Week Challenge (January), track released 30 January 2012
Music & Lyrics by Tom Savage

Week #3 Song #3 - 2012 Song A Week Challenge

This week I've got another tune with some dark subject matter. Picture if you will, a murdering, thieving, outlaw who is explaining to a hitchhiker, why he has ended up being the way he is, and warning her against getting into his truck. That's the basic gist of the song. I don't know where this stuff comes from. But I like it.

Another thing I like about this tune is that it is one chord. And it totally works.

Let me know what you think. And be sure to check out Ross Nielsen's blog for his tune.






stark raving mad
i'm a lunatic baby
but you don't want to get
the wrong impression of me

I'm wanted in 49 and a half states baby
the only place that they don't want me is in southern Tennessee

i was born into a low-budget hollywood movie
my daddy had a six-gun and he did what he pleased

my mama tried to raise me as best as she could
but her best wasn't good enough so you get what you see

we moved from town to town
Daddy'd get himself to workin
But then he'd end up robbing the local liquor store

One day he shot the store clerk
and he ended up in prison
Then all that was left
Was my poor Mama and me

My Daddy got the chair
My mama found religion
I found the keys to his pickup
An '89 Ford

I rolled down the interstate
Lay waste to all that I saw
An angry little boy
My Mama's demon seed

Now you don't have to wonder
why i am the way i am
It's the cards that i was dealt
and that's how it's gotta be

once you step inside this truck
you're world's changed forever
Cause I don't let nobody
take nothin' from me

stark raving mad
i'm a lunatic baby


credits
from 2012 Song​-​A​-​Week Challenge (January), track released 23 January 2012
music & lyrics by Tom Savage