a song i wrote while warming up the morning i recorded the travelers song...

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this is quite a fun song...i wrote it lyrics and all in about 1hr as i was warming up to go in the studio to record travelers song...i don't know where it came from (it think i had heard "i'm the one" by mr. big the day before), just popped up as songs sometimes do...but please people who are partial to mississippi don't get upset and think i'm stereotyping or anything, i just needed a 4 syllable state, it could have been alabama, california, etc...ok? florida just doesn't work...anyway it's just me, my martin d-35 and my engineer lonnie griffis on bass...real simple, real easy, recorded through a beautiful sennheiser mic, you can tell...just listen to that martin sound...yeehaw

credits:
shaun hull: martin d-35, 1967 (white) fender strat, vocals
lonnie griffis: bass

Stuck in Mississippi

welI i guess it's time to say goodbye to you
i know ya don't love me but your families do
umm-hum
and you won't have me but your cousin will
plus! She lives up there by the still,(hey!!)

and i ain't eatin' fer at least a week
but they say there's good crawdad in the creek umm...
or go fishin' in the lake to see what i can find
for me, myself, and my worried mind (yessa')

stuck in mississippi all the people here look so strange
stuck in mississippi just me and some pocket change
guess i need to find me a job or sing for my supper soon
i can't make it back to my hometown and i'm feelin' a little loon yea

(guitar)

well i'm walkin' down this country road
lookin' fer a place to drop my load (umm- hum)
let's see if ole' joe bob has some wine
i hope he's still a friend a mine (yessa')

and joe bob's daughter and her cousin brea
i hope that they've got room for three (hey!!)
'Cause i pawned my geetar down the street
man, eatin' them crawdads make me weak, eew...yep dey do 8 (

stuck in mississippi with those cocoa beach blues again
stuck in mississippi i guess i'm my only friend
cause ole' joe bob took a shot at me
cause' his daughter is startin' to swell... 8 )
and all i can hear him say is "i'll see your $%$ in #$%%
well...well

(ad lib stuff:)aw man, what am i doin' here? I'm always getting in some kinda trouble, i don't know, how am i gonna get outta this one, aw man. who's that? hey c'mon joe bob, hey put that shotgun away man, hey!!
hey!! joe bob c'mon man you know i'm innocent..
aw someone get me outta here...fade