Joplin Blues For Aaron R Schorzman
You're probably not in Texas
But I hope that you are
With your mesh back cap on backwards
In some backwood redneck bar
Betting on the baseball game
Taking holing way too far
I guess it is what it is till it ain't no more
Was it ever about the cards?

You're probably drinking Ribbons
With your old Milwaukee blues
As you're singing Billy Gibbons
As you take off with the loot
I'm betting on an old banjo
And a borrowed mandolin
Yeah I'd give everything that I ain't got yet
Just to hear those sounds again

Well chances are somebody sang this all before
It ain't about the whiskey or the girl at the liquor store
When it's you out on the highway with your pocket full of songs
You gotta take what's left, you can the rest and ride off all those wrongs
You're probably not in heaven
Between the saviour and the thief
But you been rolling 7's
With those aces up your sleeve
There ain't nothing like a guitar pull
To lose your Joplin blues
I just hope that girl tattooed on your arm
She's standing next to you

You're standing at the crossroads
With the devil waiting there
Don't he know you'll cheat the dealer
Steal it back and call it fair?

Well chances are somebody sang this all before
It ain't about the whiskey or the girl at the liquor store
When it's you out on the highway with your pocket full of songs
You gotta take what's left, you can the rest and ride off all those wrongs

You're probably not in Texas
But I hope that you are
With your mesh back cap on backwards
In some backwood redneck bar
Betting on the baseball game
Taking holing way too far
I guess it is what it is till it ain't no more
Was it ever about the cards?