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A Song Muddy Sang

from FIRECRACKER DAY by TREVOR CLAWSON

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It was 1969 and you couldn’t get much further
From the south side of Chicago if you tried
Cos there’s an Irish rain falling and I’m playing in the fields
And my mother’s calling out, hey come inside
And my sister Sue’s got a brand new record player
And a thing about those old time blues
And I’m eight years old hearing muddy through the wall
I don’t even know what I’ve been listening to.
It was a song Muddy sang that went around the world X3
All the way to my front door

Well my mother and my father didn’t care much for the blues
But they loved to hear those dance hall tunes
And in the days after the war, Glen Miller on the Radio
Was sometimes all you had to get you through
And it was 1953 when they fell in love
On the way back from a Church Hall dance
The sang each other songs, it was Bing and it was Frank
It felt just like a fine romance
It was a song bing sang, etc
Now it’s Christmas time in London and you’re leaving
Packing all your bags up and I’m grieving
But there’s a Cuban band practising somewhere on my street
Extemporising melody and kicking on the beat
And I’m dancing in the kitchen and the
World
Is at my feet
And this City’s full of songs and it speaks in tongues to me.

Now it’s 1939 in a street in Chicago and Ray’s the best piano man in town
But no one knows it yet and he can’t find a job so he’s
resting up to lay his burden down
And inside a bar there’s an Irish band playing
Banging out an old, old song
Ray hears that tune and he steals that tune
And puts it in a song of his own
It was a song Ray heard etc

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from FIRECRACKER DAY, released April 18, 2014
Written by Trevor Clawson

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Trevor Clawson Brighton, UK

Trevor Clawson is an Irish singer and songwriter, currently living and working in West Sussex. Described by Time Out as "One of the best songwriters around" he combines folk, blues and jazz guitar styles with narrative lyrics.

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