The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #165631   Message #4205009
Posted By: Joe Offer
05-Jul-24 - 01:16 AM
Thread Name: ADD: Songs of the Ancient Matriarch (Holly Tannen)
Subject: ADD: The Mendo Blues Again (Holly Tannen)
Another submission by Mendocino's finest! Probably best understood by us Northern Californians.

The Mendo Blues Again
Wyrds: Fatguru Baba Ghanoush

Tune: Bob Dylan, Stuck Outside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kh6K_-a0c4

Oh, the flagman waves in circles
Up and down the road
I’d ask him what the matter was
But I know that he’d explode

And the hardhats treat me kindly
And offer me a grape
But here inside my Honda
I know I can’t escape

Oy, Caltrans, can this really be the end?
To be stuck here on this highway
With the Mendo Blues again

Now my main man gave me two cures
And he said, sit right here
One was Humboldt medicine
The other was just home-brewed beer

And like a shmuck I chugged them
And they muggled up my brain
And now Fort Bragg just gets uglier
And I have no sense of pain

Oy, Caltrans, can this really be the end?
To be stuck here on this highway
With the Mendo Blues again

Grandma died last week
And I bet she’d be pissed
If she had any inkling of
How little she’d be missed

But me, I expected it to happen
Since she’s been plagued by trolls
She threw her phone down Main Street
And shot it full of holes

Oy, Caltrans, am I going round the bend?
I’m stuck here on this highway
With the Mendo blues again.