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.