by Roger Red Hat » Tue Oct 26, 2004 11:59 am
1. Most Blues begin
"Woke up this morning".
2. "I got a good woman" is a bad way to begin the blues,
unless you stick somethin' nasty in the next line like "I got a good woman, with the meanest face in town".
3. Good places for the blues: Highway; Jailhouse; empty bed;
bottom of a whisky glass.
Bad places: ashrams; gallery openings;
Ivy League institutions; golf courses.
4. Blues cars:Chevys, Caddilacs and broken down trucks.
Blues don't travel in BMWs or sport utility vehicles. Most Blues transportation is a southbound train or a Greyhound bus. Walkin' plays a major part of the Blues lifestyle. So does fixin' to die.
5. Teenagers can't sing the Blues, they ain't fixin' to die yet.
Adults sing the Blues. In Blues "adulthood means being old enough to get the electric chair if you shoot a man in Memphis.
6. Blues can take place in New York City, but not in Hawaii or anyplace in Canada. Yo can't have the Blues in any place that don't get rain.
7. Breaking your leg skiing is not the Blues.
Breaking your leg cuz an alligator be chompin' on it is.
8. You can't have the Blues in an office or a shopping centre, the lighting is wrong. Go outside to the car park, or sit by a skip.
9. The Blues are not about choice.
You stuck in a ditch, you stuck in a ditch, ain't no way out.
10. Do you have the right to sing the Blues?
Yes if :-
a. you're older than dirt,
b. you're blind.
c. you shot a man in Memphis.
No if:-
a. you have all your teeth.
b. you were once blind but now can see,
c. the man in Memphis lived
d. you have a retirement plan or trust fund.
Sex, drugs and sausage rolls!