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Duke Box Blues

from The Idea and the Will by Two Short Planks

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Bottoms up and I'm creeping back
and I don't even want to say thank you
I've had enough, my heads rolled up
and there's puking by the pool table.
My mouth is dry from the 23rd roll-up
and a mans shouting bollocks from the corner
The grease-backed nightshift drunkards swaying and singing
To his choice on the duke box blues

the barman smiles and he says 'hello'
But he's only counting his money
Through beer and smoke and the usual folk
Today the jokes just aren't funny.
I put in my pound and glance around
as a cur butt nudges my shoulder
I press C9 B3 H1 then I'm singing
To my choice on the duke box blues

I don't think I can stagger home my knees will give way
I don't think I can stagger home my knees will give way

the kids walk in with big fat grins
and huddle themselves in the corner
They curse and hiss as I pass for a piss
Now I'm swaying by the urinal.
A voice from cubicle one says something
and a noise emanates from the second.
A blast of heat as I beat a retreat back to the sound
Of my choice on the duke box blues

I don't think I can stagger home my knees will give way
I don't think I can stagger home my knees will give way

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from The Idea and the Will, released September 30, 2013
Written, performed and recorded by two short planks

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The more we learn, the less we know we don't know. Perpetually humble in life's vastness, the music of Two Short Planks is just one persons snippet of our daily awe using a mix of guitar, piano, synths and vocals, played averagely.

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