bottleneck blues

Story Behind The Song

This is a scene that I saw in a bar one night, and it turned into a song... this drunk guy was trying to play slide on a guitar with a beer bottle, and this woman came in just before closing time and chewed him out, then took his sorry ass home...

Song Description

This song is about the interaction between a guy that sits in a bar all day, and an older woman that came into the bar and chewed him up, calls in a drunkin dog, dirty slob, and even says get your sorry ass home..but it has an oddly upbeat blues feel with

Song Length 4:09 Genre Blues - Rock
Tempo Medium Slow (91 - 110) Lead Vocal Female Vocal
Mood Troubled, Worried Subject Material Things, Femininity
Similar Artists Lucinda Williams, Joan Osborne Language English
Era 1990 - 1999

Lyrics

Down at the bar, in the morning
Down at the bar at supper too
Seems the only place
We can reliably find you is up on
Top of that barroom stool

Do you realize what I'm saying
There might be someone who's needing you
So you better get home before morning
Or it's my back that you'll be seeing to

See those bottleneck blues they?re gonna get you
Cus they've gotten men so much stronger than you
So ya better get home before morning
That means before a quarter after two

Oh you drunken dog, Oh you dirty slob
What's wrong with you
Sit there all the night, drink yourself half blind
In a stew
With a wife at home Kids alone
They're depending on you?
Oh, get your sorry ass home

See those bottleneck blues they?re gonna get you, oh
Cus they've gotten women so much smarter than you
So ya better get home before morning
Or it's my back that you'll be seeing to

Oh you drunken dog, Oh you dirty slob
What's wrong with you
Sit there all the night, Drink yourself half blind
What do you do
With your wife at home, Kids alone
They're depending on you?

Oh those bottleneck blues
They?re gonna get you
Bottleneck blues?

Lyrics Mary Bentley Music Mary Bentley
Producer Danny Lovett Publisher Mary Bentley
Performance Mary Bentley, Danny Lovett, Tom Rasely, Chris Woodard

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