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George Thorogood & The Destroyers - 30th Anniversary Tour
It was recorded on May 4, 2004
At the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham, England
On George Thorogood & The Destroyers 30th Anniversary Tour
Transcript
00:00I want to tell you a story
00:30All about the house rent blues
00:32I come home on Friday
00:35Had to tell my lady that I lost my job
00:38She said that don't confront me
00:43Just as long as I get my rent money by next Friday
00:46Now next Friday coming I couldn't get the rent
00:49And out the door I went
01:00So I go to the lay lady
01:04And I say you can hear me slide
01:06I'll have the rent for you tomorrow
01:08The next day I don't know
01:09She said me slide it on
01:11You know peoples
01:12I notice when I come home in the evening
01:14She ain't got nothing nice to say to me
01:15But for five years
01:20She was so nice
01:22I can remember one particular evening
01:31And the lady said you got the rent money yet
01:32I said no I can't find no job
01:35How am I supposed to find some money to pay this rent
01:37She said I don't believe you're trying to find no job
01:42She said I seen you today standing on the corner
01:45Leaning up in some post
01:46I said but I'm tired
01:47I've been walking all day
01:48She said that don't confront me
01:50Just as long as I get my rent money by next Friday
01:52And then next Friday coming I couldn't get the rent
01:58Thank you
02:06And out the mother humping door I went
02:09I take it some of you people have heard this story before
02:19And we are going to hear it again mother humpers
02:23And again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again
02:30So I go in my room and I pack up my stuff and I go
02:37I pack up my John Lee hooker record collection
02:40Stand still honey
02:47I'm going to lick your legs like a puppy
02:50I slip on down the streets
02:56Down to the Tuesday night Jamboree and Hootenanny
02:59Downtown Nottingham
03:01After the Royal Concert Hall
03:06I got out there
03:08Everybody was drinking bourbon
03:09Scotch, beer and wine
03:12Feeling just fine
03:13I go to the bar
03:20Turn my butt's in there
03:21So look at him man
03:23Come on down here
03:24He got down there
03:26So what you want
03:27One bourbon
03:29One sky
03:31One beer
03:32You see my baby since I don't know when
03:37Mr. Bartonist
03:39Send him up again
03:40Want to get high
03:42Man I've got to get loose
03:43Give me a triple shot of that juice
03:46Get drunk don't you have no fear
03:49A warm, warm bourbon
03:51One shot in the beer
03:52One bourbon
03:53One shot in the beer
03:57You see my baby since I don't see me
03:58I still have no good
04:08But we can't bring a drink
04:09One beat
04:10You see my baby since I don't know when
04:11I feel we are
04:12Even Codes.....
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