Leaky Roof Blues

An old-timey rag about some modern predicaments. Sometimes you just gotta laugh...’cause it hurts too much to cry!

Everybody tells me I should lighten up and take it easy,
Just polish up my face and my shoes.
Get on with this new age positive thinkin’,
And I can have anything that I choose.
Then the boss said, You’re fired, ‘cause that shit-eatin’ grin
Don’t fit our company schema.
And I won a vacation in Japan – at Fukushima! Mmmmmm
Seems like even when I win I find a way to lose.
I got the finally got a rainy day to spend with my woman
And the roof leaks over the bed blues.

Well I been checkin’all the websites, bookmarkin’ all the highlights
That say they’ll put my life in forward.
But they either need a skillset that I just do not have yet,
Or a sheepskin I cannot afford.
I’ve followed the directions, filled out all the sections,
Must be some breakdown on the information superhighweay.
‘Cause the scammers and the spammers
Are the only ones that send an email my way! Mmmmmm
Somebody shake me hard and wake me,
‘Cause this life just wants to make me
An offer I canna refuse.
I got the finally got a rainy day to spend with my woman
And the roof leaks over the bed blues.
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No use cryin’, or denyin’, or to call the FBI in
Lady Luck has vanished, leavin’ no clues.,
I got the finally got a rainy day to spend with my woman
And the roof leaks over the bed blues.