I Wanna' Play the Blues

from Based On Actual Events by Jimi Hocking

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I Wanna’ Play the Blues

No chance dusty pants
I think I need some new consideration
I haven’t got a destination
Only got a railway station ... waiting

All my dreams are stacked up to the ceiling
No one here seems to know just how I'm feeling
I wanna’ play the blues but It's hard you see, cos
I never been to Memphis or to New Orleans

I've seen a lost soul
Sitting at the Mentone bowl ... thinking
I got a big mouth
Opened it at Caulfield South ... drinking

The government says I don't have a proper job
Well how come I've been working like a dog
I wanna’ play the blues but It's hard you see, cos
I never been to Memphis or to New Orleans

Money talking, artist walking
Did you bring a glossy photo baby
A girlie show the Casino
Why do the people wanna’ go crazy.

People say I was too young to have known
But I got me some blues all of my own
I wanna’ play the blues but It's hard you see, cos
I never been to Memphis or to New Orleans

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from Based On Actual Events, released January 1, 2001

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Jimi Hocking Melbourne, Australia

Australian Guitarist Jimi ‘the human’ Hocking has been recording & performing music since 1980. He is a member of The Screaming Jets since 1993, & his own band Jimi the Human & Spectre 7. He also performs as a blues artist. 2005 winner of the International Blues Challenge in Memphis USA.  Jimi plays electric & acoustic guitar & Mandolin. www.jimihocking.com ... more

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