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Uncle Bob's Midnight Blues Lyrics
Goin' down to the corner
Gonna have myself a drink
Goin' down to the corner
Gonna have myself a drink
'Cause that shit that we been usin'
Sure confuse my thinking
Gonna send out to the drugstore
Buy myself a goat
Tie him up in my front yard
For all my so-called friends to see
Ain't nobody gonna look in window and laugh at me
I been up so long
That it looks like down to me
Please don't talk about to me when I'm gone
Baby, are you against me too?
Had a great idea the other night
Come-A-Ti-Yi-Yippie, baby
Look out
When the blue of the night meets the gold of the day
We love you
We love you
We love you
Gonna have myself a drink
Goin' down to the corner
Gonna have myself a drink
'Cause that shit that we been usin'
Sure confuse my thinking
Gonna send out to the drugstore
Buy myself a goat
Tie him up in my front yard
For all my so-called friends to see
Ain't nobody gonna look in window and laugh at me
I been up so long
That it looks like down to me
Please don't talk about to me when I'm gone
Baby, are you against me too?
Had a great idea the other night
Come-A-Ti-Yi-Yippie, baby
Look out
When the blue of the night meets the gold of the day
We love you
We love you
We love you
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Submitted by
yuri_sucupira On Nov 28, 2001
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Newman always does remarkably well within the 12-bar blues format. "I been up so long/That it looks like down to me" is a great couple lines.
It sounds like he's poking fun at Bob Dylan's typical lyric-writing, by writing it all a bit senselessly. I mean, I love Dylan, but that's the impression I get from this song.