California Rain

From FAWM 2009
This was a tough one. I don't know if I can pull off the kind of bluesy vocals I have in my head for this....hmmmm. Regardless, the song was inspired by the ever-increasing number of vacated homes in my community, lives ruined by greedy mortgage brokers and a system designed to screw the little guy.

I will eventually re-record this. I know I can do better. It needs a bass and some backup vocals.
EDIT: Since recording this, a neighbor of mine actually committed suicide as the bank prepared to foreclose.

Lyrics:

Some guy once sang
“it never rains in California”
Well I beg to differ
It’s rainin’ right now

The foreclosure signs
Up and down the block
Are wet and depressing
Cuz its, raining in California

=chorus=
What will we all do?
The rain is comin’
For you

Neighbors disappear
Where could they all be going?
No one’s movin’ here
To California

=chorus=

Bailouts for the banks
CEO’s line their pockets
Can you really fight, the
Rain in California

=chorus=X2

No Wacky Weed

from FAWM 2009

OK... so the title is misleading. This is a beer drinking song of sorts. Short and sweet in honor of everything tall and frosty!

Seriously off-key, but then again, a drinking song probably should be right??
(Recorded with my new Firewire mixer and Condenser mic. )

Lyrics:

Well I don’t like that wacky weed
I never really cared for it.
I tried it as a teenager
Yeah a friend of mine had a lid

He took a pen and drew a face
on a piece of fruit
He claimed he couldn’t see it
And then I blew a fountain of puke

But drinkin beer is another story
It goes down so smooth
Bartender set another round
Aint got nothing to lose

chorus
A carbonated malty mug from heaven
Can’t get this at 7-11
Bartender set up another round
Aint got nothing to lose

spoken
Well I sat there long enough for that
Bar stool to leave a perfect imprint on my butt
I lost my Friends—they had come and gone,
But I had stayed drinkin my suds
The Bartender says “It’s closin’ time”, and I said
“How long have I been here?”
“I don’t know” he says “half the day and night”
Hell, you Might as well have another beer.

Yeah...
chorus X2
A carbonated malty mug from heaven
Can’t get this at 7-11
Bartender set up another round
Aint got nothing to lose