Song Description

"The Boston Shakedown"(Song of the Year Effigy Awards Spain - Blues/Rock, LA Music Awards Best Song Nominee - AC/AAA, VH1 Runner Up - AC/AAA & Lyrics, Billboard, Mid-Atlantic/SAW, Unisong Contest, France's 100% Song Contest, UK Song Contest Awards) is a slamming, roguish tale of higher education with a party girl who loves underclassmen but always leaves them. There's props to Marvin Gaye, the Red Sox and Stolichnaya. "Just a bit of reminiscing about college days and Boston.", smiles Evans. The bad ass guitar solo is by Nick Moroch (David Sanborn, Chaka Khan, Donald Fagen). Rob Aries (John Scofield, Freddy Jackson, Donald Harrison) is on keyboards. The bass duties are handled by Kip Sophos (Nile Rodgers, Chuck Loeb, David Mann) with Evans on vocals and drums. "She's havin' another party upstairs/ They're squealin' and laughin' in the August heat/ With her trunk full of toys and contraband/ That young fool don't stand a chance".

Lyrics

She's havin' another party upstairs
They're squealin' and laughin' in the August heat
With her trunk full of toys and contraband
That young fool don't stand a chance
Now mobilize the troops, she's on the prowl for recruits
When she starts playin' that song by Marvin Gaye
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey

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And just when you think you've won
That sweet thing will come undone
Here in this old college town
She'll give your love the Boston Shakedown

She likes a schoolboy who's eager to learn
Lessons he won't find in a college classroom
But must she play that damn record so loud
Each time a pledge passes out
And in my sophomore days I felt her fire and flame
Before she pronounced love's murderous words
Burn, burn, burn
Burn, burn, burn

And just when you think you've won
That sweet thing will come undone
Here in this old college town
She'll give your love the Boston Shakedown
(the Boston Shakedown)
And you'll be goin' down
Down, down, down, down

I know love has a fuse, love will explode
Love will leave you one strung-out Romeo
I'm like those old men at Fenway who fear
When hopes are high the Sox may fold

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There goes another scholar past my door
Bound for paradise on the second floor
Stolichnaya will flow, that lava lamp will glow
Before her love takes its toll
And though my jealousy is tamed, an itch still remains
When she starts playin' that song by Marvin Gaye
Hey, hey, hey,
Hey, hey, hey

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