A slightly humorous acoustic blues tune. I recorded all the parts myself with an acoustic 12-string guitar, a Fender Telecaster, Fender Bass guitar and vocal.

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In 1980, the Mount Saint Helens volcano in Washington state blew its top. It rained ash on a large portion of the Northwest, covering everything in sight.
I got ashes on my guitar, ashes in my booze,
ashes on my music, ashes all over my blues.

Well I looked up last Sunday,
I looked up at the sky
I saw a black cloud coming
and I thought that I would die
there were ashes falling on me
and ashes on the news,
Ashes in my kitchen
and ashes in my booze
Ashes all around me
and ashes on my blue suede shoes.

They say the mountain blew-up
a big catastrophy
the whole damn mountain blew-up
and it's headed right for me.
Now the ash is fallin' on me.
the Sherrif's on the news,
they're roundin' up the looters,
they're callin' out the crews.
Got ashes on my music
and ashes all over my blues.

Now my grass is all a-dyin'
the kids can hardly breathe.
My wife is inside cryin'
says she wants to leave
but the ash is all around us
we're covered near and far,
I'd like to get away now,
if I could find the car!
I'd have myself a brandy but
they're closing down the bar...
(it's an emergency, you know)