Blues Song-The Dead Milkmen

[ti:Blues Song] [ar:The Dead Milkmen] [al:Stoney's Extra Stout (Pig)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Blues Song (Album Version) - The Dead Milkmen [00:03.37]We can stand naked on the corner [00:05.21]Of Main Street baby and [00:06.59] [00:07.88]Let everybody slow down and take a look [00:10.48] [00:12.96]You can drive your Cadillac to the library [00:14.78]Baby and maybe read the [00:16.07] [00:17.23]Last ten pages of an Agatha Christie book [00:19.22] [00:21.40]You can feed my cat to my dog [00:23.25] [00:23.87]And turn around and feed my dog to my horse [00:27.85] [00:30.22]You can screw the whole damn royal family [00:32.38]Baby until they [00:33.59] [00:34.67]All get a divorce [00:36.32] [00:38.87]Baby baby baby [00:40.46]Baby you can do anything you wanna do baby [00:42.02]I swear it will not bother me [00:43.67]Cause baby you know [00:44.83]Baby you know you've got to [00:45.93]You've got to [00:46.40]You've got to be what you're going to be [00:50.82] [00:52.05]You can burn down the orphanage [00:53.03]Baby over there on the [00:54.95] [00:55.80]Poor side of town [00:57.36] [01:00.02]You can go to the circus [01:00.99]Baby frighten the elephants [01:02.45]See if you can get them to maybe [01:03.85] [01:04.67]Trample a clown [01:05.87] [01:08.42]You can steal the prize out of [01:09.82]My box of cereal baby and [01:11.63] [01:12.97]Replace it with a rat [01:14.28] [01:16.87]You can walk up to someone [01:17.76]Who might be a little overweight [01:19.19]And be kinda sensitive about it and say [01:20.82] [01:21.41]"Oh my god you're really fat " [01:23.66] [01:25.34]Live and let live baby [01:26.57]That's the cornerstone [01:27.50]The very essence of my philosophy [01:29.37]And baby [01:30.06]Baby you know [01:30.72]You know you've got to [01:31.51]You've got to [01:32.03]You've got to be what you're going to be [01:37.16] [01:37.79]I'm gonna play my harmonica [01:39.01] [01:41.60]Since I charge 35 dollars a note [01:43.34] [01:43.90]I'm not gonna play much of my harmonica [01:46.45]You see the blues [01:47.59]The blues isn't an art form [01:49.10]It's not a type of music [01:50.50]The blues is a product [01:51.90]Not unlike computer chips or tampons [01:54.88]The blues is a way for white kids to feel [01:56.78]That they understand the feelings of black people [01:58.69]Without ever having to meet any of them [02:00.79] [02:02.93]The blues is all these things and more [02:04.99]Available for 19 95 [02:07.53] [02:10.69]Oh baby [02:11.48]Baby you can do whatever you wanna do baby [02:13.34]Baby you know it's not going to bother me [02:15.16]Cause baby you know [02:16.18]You know you've got to [02:16.94]You've got to be what you're going to be [02:21.98]Here comes the solo [02:23.03] [02:29.73]Ooh and what a solo it is [02:31.35] [02:33.80]You know [02:34.22] [02:34.73]That might not be the blues [02:36.21]But it sure makes me sad [02:38.01] [02:44.01]Listen in the distance [02:45.51] [02:46.29]The sound of Leadbelly rolling in his grave [02:48.14] [02:56.73]I've said it before baby [02:57.89]I'll say it again [02:58.68]Live and let live [02:59.45]The very essence the cornerstone [03:01.03]The summit of my philosophy [03:02.17]Baby baby you know [03:03.22]Baby you know you've got to [03:04.36]You've got to be what you're going to be [03:08.94] [03:09.57]A blues man needs a nickname [03:12.18]And everybody calls me Two Shoes [03:13.98] [03:14.53]Cause I always wear two shoes [03:16.25]I know It's not much of a nickname [03:17.99]But by the time I got around to [03:19.24]Getting my nickname [03:20.30]All the good ones were taken [03:21.89]Take for example Blind Lemon Lipschitz [03:25.03]Blind Lemon Lipschitz gouged out [03:27.14]His own eyes with his thumbnails [03:28.93]So he could be called blind lemon [03:30.90] [03:32.67]It's true don't laugh [03:33.65] [03:35.94]He felt the very essence of the blues [03:38.06]Calling him from within [03:39.24] [03:40.20]And he felt that contract too [03:42.12]Oh baby [03:42.76]Baby you know [03:43.61]Baby you know you can do whatever you do [03:45.17]I don't care [03:45.78]I don't give a damn baby [03:46.73]It's not gonna bother me [03:47.81]Cause baby baby b-b-b-b-b-b-b [03:50.03]You gotta [03:50.42]You gotta [03:50.80]You gotta [03:51.15]You gotta [03:51.55]You gotta be [03:52.37]You gotta be what you're going to be