"I Woke Up" by David Buchalter (reissued)

I woke up
To the metaphoric sound
Of a beating drum
Ba-ba-ba-ba-baa, ba-ba-baa, baby;

I done wrong,
Gone plantin' my seeds
In an early warning
Great Barrington;

Mother Goose,
Peakin' through the trees,
And I don't know why,
But they're all
Takin' care of me;

I woke up
with the farmer's wife
in another life
but the prison guard
was nice to me.

[IIa]
In the bad part of town
I'm a sad, hard-up clown;
In that part of downtown
I sat on the moist grass-grow ground

(break it down)

[repeat I]

[IIb]
In the bad part of town
I'm a sad, hard-up clown
When the monsoon truth-boat comes in,
I'll sip your 1-9-8-4 gin
When the cloud cover lifts and is gone,
I fear I'll be alone again.

--DSB


~~~~~~~~~~CHORDS~~~~~~~~~
("I woke up. . . .")
707070, E, F#
707070, A, F#

(In the bad part of town. . . .)
A, E, A, E, A, E, A, E

("Break it down. . . .")
707070, A[5th fret], 505050, G, 303030, E, F#
707070, A[5th fret], 505050, G, 303030, A, F#

~~~~~~~~~~~LYRICS~~~~~~~~~~~~

[I]
I woke up
To the metaphoric sound
Of a beating drum
Ba-ba-ba-ba-baa, ba-ba-baa, baby;

I done wrong,
Gone plantin' my seeds
In an early warning
Great Barrington;

Mother Goose,
Peakin' through the trees,
And I don't know why,
But they're all
Takin' care of me;

I woke up
with the farmer's wife
in another life
but the prison guard
was nice to me.

[IIa]
In the bad part of town
I'm a sad, hard-up clown;
In that part of downtown
I sat on the moist grass-grow ground

(break it down)

[repeat I]

[IIb]
In the bad part of town
I'm a sad, hard-up clown
When the monsoon truth-boat comes in,
I'll sip your 1-9-8-4 gin
When the cloud cover lifts and is gone,
I fear I'll be alone again.

--DSB


Jeff Kempskie, formerly of Tavé Hu, currently a grad student at Eastman School of Music, wrote the melody of the scat in the middle (following the "break it down") section.

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[dohertykaki]

AWSOME!!!!

[dsbuchalter]

thank you k

[dohertykaki]

MAN. you are so awsome! I love this song.

[dsbuchalter]

Thanks. (Can I hire you to serve on my dissertation committee?-- if they can send a man to the moon, there's got to be a way to justify this.)

[dohertykaki]

" the prison guards, nice to me....." :)

[dsbuchalter]

Yes, it's funny what comes into one's head when one ceases to filter random thoughts.

[JaYnEsAyZ]

God I love this-*sigh* I mean..I REALLY LOVE this vid ; P

[dohertykaki]

I really like listening to this song. You should submit it to WERS (Emerson College Radio, Boston- catch it online)

[dsbuchalter]

Thanks for tuning in!

[robertodedomenico]

what?

:)

r.