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sad poem with a jazz riff.

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Jazz poetry

Never Blessed
1. I never was blessed with a clean mind
Always had to sleep alone
Never was blessed with a woman
Wouldn’t run off on her own
I never had me no new car
The old ones always broke down
I met free love on the subway
She knocked to the ground
2. Never had us a clean war
Always sent bodies home
Oil washed up on a clean shore
The corporation’s never wrong
And it never seemed like I trusted
Anything in sight
Why I never even trusted the president (sometimes I think I’m the President)
The wife said “That’s alright”
3. I never had me a good dog
Wouldn’t bite me on the leg
And I never had me a good job
Didn’t leave times to beg
Never had no good friend
Never ever let you down
Long as got my sidearm
I’ll never get screwed again
4. Never had a good meal
Always wanted something more
Never had me a good shirt
The pockets always tore
Never had me no shelter
To lay my weary head
But I once slept on the park bench
Where the New York Times was read
5. Never had me a full moon
Mine was always half
I never told me a good joke
Could make somebody laugh
And I never wrote me a good poem
Or drew me a decent line
But I can dance with the railroad gang and drink that turpentine
6. Now I come to the moral
Of a strange and painful song
Think of this as a dead end road
The GPS was wrong
The gas gauge says I’m empty
The compass says I’m low
Hurricane took my property
Wall Street stole my soul

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from Family History, released March 9, 2023
Songwriter : J.W. McClure on guitar and vocals; Thaddeus Spae on harmonica and guitarron

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J.W. McClure Seattle, Washington

J.W. McClure lives in Stanwood, Washington. This is a career restarted for me. In the 1970’s I was often an opening act at the Washington D.C. clubs, The Cellar Door and The Childe Harold for Tom Paxton, Dave Van Ronk, Tom Rush and many well known bands. In the 1980’s I returned to Washington to do folk music, satire and stand-up comedy before getting swamped by family and other work. ... more

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