Leechville

Take a sip of whiskey
Drink another beer
We can travel around the world
And never have to leave here

Makes me high

We got movies rented
Pizza on the way
A big ol’ couch to sit upon
And tomorrow’s Saturday

Makes me smile

Chorus:
You’ll be eighteen tomorrow
I haven’t had a job in years
It’s Friday night in Leechville
It doesn’t get any better than this

Take a sip of whiskey
Drink another beer
I’m gonna turn my life around
When isn’t exactly clear

Drives me wild

Cat shit on the carpet
Garbage in the yard
We need to clean this place up
But I hate to work that hard

My oh my

Chorus:
You’ll be eighteen tomorrow
I haven’t had a job in years
It’s Friday night in Leechville
It doesn’t get any better than this

Bridge:
One day we’ll have some babies
Four girls and three boys
We’ll buy them seven suits to wear
Maybe move to Illinois

Chorus:
You’ll be eighteen tomorrow
I haven’t had a job in years
It’s Friday night in Leechville
It doesn’t get any better than this

Copyright Kent Newsome and Ronnie Jeffrey
All Rights Reserved

Posted by Kent on February 7, 2010

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This week’s song is Leechville. It’s a bossa nova number I co-wrote with Ronnie Jeffrey. You can hear the MP3:

I wrote this one after reading the book Liar’s Club. The town in that book is actually called Leechfield, but when I wrote the title, I misrembered and called it Leechville. This is, so far, the only bossa nova song in my catalog, but I have to admit that I love the combination of the classy music and the trashy words.

Bonus Song: Speaking of songs and books. I am reading Dixie Lullaby right now and in the book the author mentions this album, one of my favorite obscure records from the 1970s. I liked that record so much I actually wrote a song about one of the characters in one of the songs on the record. Here’s that MP3:

Posted by Kent on September 3, 2005

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