THE DUSTBOWL REVIVAL“WITH A LAMPSHADE ON” LYRICS (2015)

LAMPSHADE ON (LUPETIN)I went down to the old corner store
they said my credit wasn’t good no more
lampshade on - with a lampshade on
they gave me no more credit with my lampshade on
so I went down to old Jerry’s bar
got me some whiskey and stole me a car
lampshade on, lampshade on
I stole me a chevy with a lampshade on
I went to the carwash - but didn’t have no change
so I got my rifle and went to the shooting range
lampshade on, lampshade on
Yes I shot out all four tires with my lampshade on
Went to see my honey on the outskirts of town
got to her front porch and her house was burning downlampshade on, lampshade on,
yes I ran into that fire with my lampshade on
CHORUS
Mama said, if you keep on drinking
you’ll end up in that penitentiary
I’ve been thinking about my drinking
and I think I’m the man I want to bewith my lampshade on, lampshade on
gonna keep on drinking with my lampshade on
Ran into that fire with the crackle and the hisssaved my darling and gave her a big old kisswith a lampshade on, lampshade on
I saved my darling with a lampshade on
If you keep drinking with a lampshade on
you’ll wake up one morning and I’ll be gonewith a lampshade on, lampshade on
I’m gonna leave ya with that lampshade on

oh but five years later honey won’t you look at me
I’m the governor of the state of Tennessee
with a lampshade on, lampshade on
I’ll be your governor with a lampshade on
CHBluebell mountaintop, lampshade on
Bluebell mountaintop, dancing all night long
Bluebell mountaintop, lampshade on
Bluebell mountaintop, dancing all night long
HEY BABY (LUPETIN)
Hey hey hey baby
where you going tonight
hey hey hey baby
you’re looking out of sight
don’t love me out of spite
just love me if it feels rightI mean all night
Hey hey hey baby
you’re out looking for trouble
hey hey hey baby
that man will give you double
you’re living in a bubble
if you don’t think he’s trouble
he’s gonna give you double
CHORUSHey hey hey hey!
I said hey baby!
Hey hey hey hey!
I said hey baby!
don’t love me out of spite
just love me if it feels rightI mean all night
Hey hey hey baby
I heard he broke your heart
hey hey hey baby
you need a brand new startcause loving you’s an art
he broke your heart
you need a brand new startHey hey hey baby
I’ll be your real good thing
hey hey hey baby
I ain’t no midnight fling
I’ll make your heart sing
I ain’t no midnight flingcause I’m a real good thing
CHOLD JOE CLARK (BASED ON TRADITIONAL, ADDED LYRICS LUPETIN)Old Joe Clark was the preacher’s son
preached all over the plain
only text he ever knew
was high low jack and the game
CHORUS
Fare thee well, Old Joe Clark
Fare thee well, I say
Fare thee well, Old Joe Clark
I ain’t long to stay
And Old Joe Clark had a big old house
fifteen stories highand every story in that house
was made of chicken pie
CH
And Old Joe Clark had a big old mulename of Morgan Brown
every tooth in that mule’s head
was fifteen inches round
And Old Joe Clark had a yellow cat
she did not like to praystuck her head in the buttermilk jar
and washed her sins away
CHI went to see Old Joe Clark
and he was not at home
I ate up all his hamand threw away the bone
FEELS GOOD

I hear you knocking, won't you let me in
You say we're ending but baby we can begin again
I'd like to tell you but I don't know how
I'd like to wipe the sweat off your brow
alright, alright - watch me now
you can roll me till you wear me out
but don't control me cause baby you know I'll scream and shout
I'm like a river flowing out to the sea
be my captain drop your anchor down deep
alright, alright - watch me now
CHORUS
Feels good, feels good
just like it should, just like it should
feels nice, like paradise, - oh when you're by my side
I know your mama didn't raise you rightbut me my daddy and I'll be your mama tonight
ain't gonna be no sacred cow
my field is fallow baby drop down your plow
alright, alright, watch me now
I never done no waiting around
I'm waiting for you even if you're prison boundI know you didn't mean to kill that man
I helped you bury him right in the sandalright, alright, watch me now
CHI know your mama didn't raise you rightbut me my daddy and I'll be your mama tonight
I'd like to tell you but I don't know how
I'd like to wipe the sweat off your brow
alright, alright, watch me now.
STANDING NEXT TO ME
I was downhearted
from my head down to my shoes
walking down that highway just to get back home to you
from the coldest winterto the hottest summer day
no matter where I’m goinggot your love to keep me safe
Oooh la la la
Oooh la la la
I was so lonesome
had a dollar to my namebefore I met you darling
just a pawn lost the gamefrom the highest mountainto deep under the sea
no matter where I'm going
you’re just standing next to meCH
You're looking good babe
I like the way you walkwhen I'm on the edge wellI like to hear you talk me down fromthe isle of Manhattan to the San Francisco bay
No matter where I’m going
got your love to point the wayCHOh you got that special thingmakes a poor heart sing
this ain't no midnight fling
you’re gonna give my heart wings
Oh now I'm so happy
just I'm walking down the street
keep talking about you
to every man I meetfrom the highest mountainto deep under the sea
no matter where I'm going
you’re just standing next to me
BALLAD OF THE BELLHOPThe birds were squawking
people were talking, I was walking
and I could barely hear

whispering, right in my hear
your mama don’t likeyour daddy don’t like me
your grandma put that pistol to my head
when she caught me fixing up your bed
I’ve been working at this hotel
since I was fifteen
ain’t no way in hell
I ever thought I’d kiss the queen
CHORUS
it must be fatesummer sun it never sets too lateit’s just me and Kate
dreaming our lives away
When Will takes out his hunting hounds
that’s when she’s winking her milky browns
at me, won’t you meet me
at a quarter to three
Sweating like a hornet swarm
sweating in that bellhop uniform
she said get down, on your knees
Mama was a sailor,
lost somewhere at seadaddy was a tailor,
somewhere he’s so proud of me
CHShe said honey I got a plan
I’m gonna store you
in a room at Buckingham
you know Will gave me his handhe’s going to be my kingyou’re gonna be my back door man
CH
Backdoor man, backdoor man
ain’t that a sweet old plan
for a man like methey’re gonna put me on - salary
Ain’t no reason, hang us for treason
ain’t it the season, to swing away

ain’t got nothing more
to say about it babe
When they finally caught us
they threw us in the stockade
they stoned and spat upon us
but honey, child, we got it madeNEVER HAD TO GO (LUPETIN)

If I was a bird flying high in the sky
If I was the apple of your eye
If I didn't have such a reckless heart
We could be together I mean never apart
If I was a beetle crawling at your feet
If I was a car and I hit you in the street
Would you stop and pay me any mind
We could say hello I mean never goodbye
CHORUS
But oh oh oh
You hit the road
It's all my fault
I know I know
Say it isn't soYou never had to go
If I was a cloud flying over the park
If I was a knock on your door in the dark
Would you open up and give me a kiss
You didn't have to end it baby not like thisAnd if I was a creek flowing by your mama's house
Would you drink me up, with your honey mouth
Would you stop and hear what I would sayThat one night with bobby don't mean nothing anyway
CH
If I was a spire way up on a steeple
If I was a fire raining down on all the people
Would you stop and hear what I would sayThat one night with bobby don't mean nothing anyway

“BRIGHT LIGHTS” (LUPETIN)
I'm an old man
with the trembling hand
I've been around some
I've been all across this land
I found a potion
to take me out without a fightnow I'm going
Yes I'm going home tonight
I lived a long life
got no time I need to bide
I had a beautiful wifeand two more there on the side
I've been strapped down someto those cold hospital beds
I found the window
now I'm standing here instead
CHORUS
Oh my children
I know you'll never understandIf they're gonna take my life
I'll take it by my own hand
Gather round me
I got a feeling for flight
Turn the music up honeyDon't you cry
Come and squeeze me
it's so easily done
just one pinprick
And your higher than the sun
don't need no preacher
to teach me all about my rights
Now I'm going
I can see the bright lights
Oh oh ohI made some new friends
at the old suburban mallthe men who live there
I hear they really have it all
one-way ticketI said I got money for days
to meet the reaper
you know we got so many ways
Secobarbitalstolen right out of the truck
and pentobarbital
after just to back it up
they say that 9 grams
will do it every time
but I'll take 10 grams
just to skip the line
CHCHEROKEE SHUFFLE (BASED ON TRADITIONAL, LYRICS LUPETIN)
Sitting in the tall green grass
thinking about my lovea big old twister came on down
like a hand into a glove
picked her up right off the groundinto the sky above
I screamed to the lord above
why'd you take my love
CHORUS
I'm gonna ride on, ride with meride on, to the land of the Cherokee
land of the Cherokee
I'm going way down south
where the rivers flow
one day you might findwhere the wind does blow
where the wind does blow
Running up past laughing bear
where the mountains grow up tallthey say the higher that you climb the harder that you fall
I'm gonna build me a cabin house
way up in the sky
every time the rain comes down
I can hear my honey cryCHMany years have gone by
and I'm still all alone
I heard a ringing one nightand I picked up the phone
I could hear the thunderand the lightning on the line
I swear I heard my honey crying"would you still be mine?"
CHDOUBLING DOWN ON YOU (LUPETIN)
The owl hoot hoots from dusk till dawn
The midnight miner never yawns
If you cross me one more timebaby I'll be gone
you keep turning me off
I ain't never gonna turn you on
So you got a big machine
but is your motor clean
I can see your rotors turning
but the grass is always greener
when I close my eyes and drive straight ahead
Don't you give me your craps
none of your spinning rouletteyou got a full house
but I haven't folded yet
if you look inside
I got a line forming to my bed
CHORUS
You may never know it
Cause I ain't gonna show it
but I'm falling for your handso honey don't you blow it
and if you do I'm going to beat you
black and blue
You got the Jack and the 9,
oh ain't it the truth
but I got that double one
and one and one makes two
So I'm doubling down

doubling down on you
Yes, I'm doubling down
doubling down on you
I was born in a trailer facing the glittering strip
my mother was a teenage acrobat who forgot to flip
Daddy was a pit boss with a wandering eyewhen she cut him off
he started singing awful high
So I don't take too kindly
to no feral alley cat
Put on your jacket and your bowtie
and that pork pie hat
you hear that clock ticking,shouldn't you be pickin me out a rock?
I used to sleep on the trapeze
just flying through the air
they'd shoot me out of canonsat the desert county fair
so if you got cold feet
you best be walking back down the block
CHAIN’T MY FAULT (Johnson and Quezergue - added Lyrics Lupetin)
Oh, it ain’t my fault,
Oh, it ain’t my fault,
Oh, it ain’t my fault
Ah, ah, ah, ah, it ain’t my fault
Oh, it ain’t my fault,
I whispered in her ear,
Oh, it ain’t my fault,
tell her just what she wants to hearOh, it ain’t my fault
Ah, ah, ah, ah, it ain’t my fault
Oh, it ain’t my fault
I told her one last time
Oh, it ain’t my fault
I’m gonna make it to the county line
Oh, it ain’t my faultAh, ah, ah, ah, it ain’t my fault

Break it down, break it down, break it down
Oh, it ain’t my fault,
Oh, it ain’t my fault,
Oh, it ain’t my fault
Ah, ah, ah, ah, it ain’t my fault

DROP IN THE BUCKET (LUPETIN)
I’ve been doubted, pushed around
I’ve been squashed on the groundyou better listen to what I say
get down, on your knees and pray
I ain’t going away, till my dying day
I survived, subatomic wars
you ain’t never seen no one like me beforeCHIt’s a drop in the bucket, yeah yeahdrop in the bucket, yeah yeahdrop in the bucket, yeah yeah
you ain’t seen nothing yet
It’s a drop in the bucket, yeah yeahdrop in the bucket, yeah yeahdrop in the bucket, yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah
I ain’t much to look at, that’s for sure
I’m gonna crawl under your locked door
you could be rich, you could be poor
I’m gonna get me someAt the great fire, I was there,
at the Hanoi Hilton, I was thereat the fall of Rome, I was therehaving me some fun
I survived a hundred centuries
you ain’t never seen nobody like me
CHThey say when it rains
oh you know it pours
I got mine, you better get yoursBlack coat and shiny nails
when the train comes down the rails
I miss the hit, it never fails
to make me shiver
I ain’t no fool, for no cheese
I ain’t no pet, no honey pleaseI still carry that dread diseaseoh they call the plague
I survived the slander of my nameone thing for sure is the rat
always wins the game
CHWRAPPED UP IN MY HEART (LUPETIN)
All alone, tell me where have you been
you ain’t picking up the phone
are you out there with him?
you know it’s getting dark
wrapped up in my heart
sleeping in the park
One thing. What’d you dowith that diamond ring?
I heard you pawned it, babe
I thought I was going to be your kingdo you give a damn?
I thought I was your man
I ain’t never gonna understandCH
Now oh oh! Ooh wee!
Come back to me
Now don’t be, that way
You’re gonna regret it all someday
I’ll be a rich old man, oh so sweet
you’re gonna be struggling, babeliving out on the street
and every time you flirt
you know it’s gonna hurt
I ain’t going back on my word
CHOne more chance,
to make a little sweet romancethe juke box is dripping, babe
one last slow dance
you know it’s getting dark
wrapped up in my heart,sleeping in the park
And do you give a damn
I thought I was your man
I ain’t never gonna understand
WHISKEY IN THE WELL (Eddie DeLange, John Benson Brooks, Lupetin)
CHORUS
Who threw the whiskey in the well?
I said who threw the whiskey in the well?
mama and deacon jones, outside rattlin’ bones
who threw the whiskey in the well
Early Sunday morning, church was crowded fullBrother Brown was raving,
he was angry as a bullcongregation sensed it,
knew just what he meant
thumbed down on his bible
said, Brother you must repent!
Who threw the whiskey in the well?
I said who threw the whiskey in the well?
told you one last time
I’m higher than a Georgia pine
who threw the whiskey in the well?
At the church picnic, drinking lemonade
something in the watermade the church girls unafraid
took off their starchy dresses
lead me by the hand
now we’re skinny dippingin the old Rio Grande
CHI’m gonna take a little leave of thee
if you look up to the sky above
I promise, you will be
brother Jones got the bones
sister Ash got the cash
and little sister Lizzie
she likes to shake that ass