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Lonesome Larry Hoover

from Quality Items by Eric Blowtorch and the Inflammables

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Lonesome Larry Hoover (E. Beaumont/K. Roderick)

I’m overdrawn by hundreds in my checking account
but I’ve got friends who can front necessary amounts
Still I wish my doggone job paid me enough so rent don’t bounce
Times like this I wish I was a mover like lonesome Larry Hoover

I got my freedom and my name, a good game with no shame,
broke as a joke with no one to blame
I love to eat more than my means can meet
I feel no more an improver that lonesome Larry Hoover

Larry sold rocks around the clock and ruled the block, boom shock-a-lock
Now he clock heavy dough in escrow – that much we know
In the end he might never have a friend or Disciple ears to bend
You say he’s a zero, some say a hero

I loved a woman so I sent her all my arrows straight and narrow
She send them all broken back to me, C.O.D.
Larry’s lady ran out of block and turned him in, so what the fuck?
Can’t buy me love or liberation

So now Larry sings the blues and so do you and so do you
So what’s new? I sing the reds, we all get dead
On the G – O – D you keep swearing you are free
in the land of the free and lonesome Larry

Larry sold rocks around the clock and ruled the block, boom shock-a-lock
Now he clock heavy dough in escrow – that much we know
In the end he might never have a friend or Disciple ears to bend
You say he’s a zero, some say a hero

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from Quality Items, released May 21, 2022
E.B.: vocal, guitars, organ
Matt Krajewski: upright bass
Michael Koch: drumkit, vocal
Juli Wood: tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone

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Eric Blowtorch Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Singer/guitarist/songwriter Eric Blowtorch sings, plays, and writes reggae, ska, rocksteady, soul, rock 'n' roll, funk, Latin, disco, hip-hop, Anglo-Afropop, and jazz songs with rhythm, melody, passion, and original comic timing. E. B. plays solo, in small combos, and with a band, Eric Blowtorch and the Bodyguards. ... more

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