Good Book Blues

from Western Reserve by Howard Simon

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Good Book Blues

Come on pretty baby, meet me way downtown
Come on pretty mama, won’t you meet me way downtown?
If you want to have a good time, you gotta put the Good Book down

Come on pretty mama, meet me by the railroad gate
Come on pretty baby, won’t you meet me by the railroad gate?
If you want to go ridin’, heaven gonna have to wait

The Lord says love your brother, the Lord says put your neighbor first
The Lord says love your brother, Lord says put your neighbor first
Gonna do the good Lord’s bidding, but first I gotta quench my thirst

Saw the preacher at the station, he asked me where I’d been
Preacher at the station, asked me where I’d been
I said the church ain’t no place for a man who’s born to sin

My baby says she loves me, gonna love her ‘til I’m dead
Baby says she loves me, gonna love her ‘til the day I’m dead
But the Good Book is her pillow and it won’t let me in her bed

Got no cream in my coffee, got no sugar in my tea
Got no cream in my coffee, got no sugar in my tea
But I got a Gospel woman, and she’s a fool for me

Come on pretty baby, meet me way downtown
Come on pretty mama, won’t you meet me way downtown?
If you want to have a good time, you gotta put the Good Book down

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from Western Reserve, released August 22, 2020
Howard Simon: vocal, harmonica
Derek Bianchi: acoustic guitar, bass, drums
Libby McLaren: keyboards
Paul Weiss: electric slide guitar

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Howard Simon San Francisco, California

I am a San Francisco-based singer-songwriter. My songs are about love (romantic and otherwise), family, morality and mortality. If there is a common thread to my songs, it is the people we love, the desire to do right, and the hope and fear, the peace and the struggle that constitute life bring wonder in addition to its joy and sadness, and sometimes loss. ... more

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