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I Got Dem Memorial Blues

It's a dim & drizzly Memorial Monday

Hell, it could be Sunday or any other day these daze

The BBQ pickin party's cancelled

due 2 more rain and things finacial

We did not escape the flooding after all

the AC was out on the hottest day I recall

the heat & humidity is so oppressive

makes one's instincts blur & become panic obsessive

On a day set aside for all to remember

Those who gave all & did not surrender

Is marked with a lack of labor & shopping mall sales

No football, no banking, no courts & no snail mail

So I'll have another chunk of dat brownie

and wash in down with some good ol' Tenessee JD

Take another puff & drive another nail in my coffin

Until my head stops aching & can stop coughing

What will dis day bring?

Maybe I'll just sit alone with my guitar & sing

Play me some blues cause the mortgage is due

the roof is still leaking, two cats have nine kittens & I'm blue

I'm so broke I can't pay attention

to all of the things that I owe I've lost my retention

YA, I got dem steadily depressin'

Low down mind missin'

Everything is way past due

I got dem Memorial Blues

Append Just had 2 write dis 2 get my daze started, U all have happy :) Memorial Day, Doc

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May 31, 2010
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