Diary of a New CD #3 ~ Reaching into the Past

I’ve got just a couple of more songs to demo out before I start hacking away and formulating a working set list for the CD. As I was thinking about songs I’d like to still demo I thought about this little blues song that I perform every once in a while and said why not at least demo it and give it a chance to be on the CD. This is a song that I wrote ages ago, 1988 to be exact. Shoot, over 20 years ago! I wrote it about a roommate I had at the time who desperately wanted to play the guitar and write blues songs, but he was so bad at the guitar and could not sing on key to save his soul. But he had the attitude of a blues-man. He was a loner. He was not one to get “tied” to a woman. He traveled and had very few possessions. He just did not have the voice to yell at the world like a blues-man. His name was Earl. This is the song I wrote for him called “Blues for E”.

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Blues For “E”

Babe I’m a loner
Don’t need love
Or that sentimental foolishness
I can’t rise above
I just play my guitar
And sing the blues
For a fool like me
For a fool like me

Well I ain’t got no worries on my mind
I just watch the world going by
And I take what I can find

Well you say you love me
That’s alright
But babe I’ll be travelin
I’m gone tonight
On the road with my guitar
Just singin the blues
For a fool like me
For a fool like me

Well now I don’t need a woman by my side
I put my stuff in an old knapsack
And I wait for a freight train to arrive

Babe I’m a loner
Don’t need love
Or that sentimental bullsheet
I can’t rise above
I just play my guitar
And sing the blues
For a fool like me
For a fool like me