Jimmy G. Here's one just for you / Layla Maples (Friend)
Well now, here it comes. The one that tells all for the ones that didn't know. I had to write this one. I was sitting there one day playing a little jingle, 3 chord wonder, that you had shown me one day, and as the first line came to me my significant other had begun to sing his own version of what was to be written. Since I had been playing the chords aimlessly and over and over again, the words that fell from my significant other's lips became the chorus. I couldn't help but to laugh right out loud, because as I was thinking of yet another song in your memory, and the words Joe had come up with, how it seemed to fall together all in the same knot of time, makes for an interesting, and off beat combination. Joe has got to be getting tired of the content of my music that he must listen to day in, and day out. But he takes it like a champ.
Jimmy G
Well, he rolled right off of the stage and he sat down in between
My mother and me
Said, "Hi, my name is Jimmy G
Can I get you a thing?
Is there a song you want me to sing?"
Said "Jimmy give me some blues!"
Hey, Jimmy can you show me a thing or two
About what you do?
I wanna play that thing like you
I can't do not a thing about your situation
'Cause I've got mine
And she wouldn't want me hangin' around with you
If it's meant to be know that I'm gonna see you again
But I don't know when
And he got back up and he played me the blues!
~chorus~
I can't take it anymore
It's drivin' me insane
She just keeps playin' over and over and over and over again
The same old song about the same old damn friends
That I don't know
Man, I wish she'd just let it go!
Other side of the town in a different time and place
He turned around to see who
"It's not so hard to believe that it's you
Come on up on the stage and won't ya' sing you a song with me"
I guess to see what I knew
"Yeah, we've got a lot of work to do"
I didn't have not a clue but my heart was screamin' the blues
He told me"you can do whatever you want to
and if it means anything I believe in you"
Then the words of a long lost stranger sank down in my veins
Like a thousand runaway trains
and it just keeps goin' on and on and on and on and
If it's meant to be know that I'm gonna see you again
But I don't know when
And he got back up and he played me the blues!
I can't take it any more
It's drivin' me insane
She just keeps playin' it over and over and over and over again
The same old song about the same old friends
That I don't know
Man, I wish she'd just let it go
I can't do not a thing about your situation
"Cause I refuse
Not to give it back to the one that gave me the blues
Oh, no he's not the love of my life back then
But it's what he introduced me to
And it's the love of the blues that brought me to you
So, if you find yourself a problem with my best friend
Maybe you should think it again
'Cause if it wasn't for him I wouldn't be standin'
Where I am
If you can't take it anymore
I understand
but, I just keep playin' it over and over and over and over again
The same old song about the same old friends
I wish you could know
Man, so maybe you'd just let it go
And let me play you the BLUES!
Layla Maples
In memory of Jimmy G
"Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it
RIGHT!"
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