Another Bad Day in Dicktown

from Humbug 23 by robb johnson

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Another Bad Day in Dicktown, Raymondo

OK RAYMONDO, ALL YOU GOT TO DO
Is GET UP OFF THE FLOOR, IT’S EASY
WITH YOUR TWO LEFT FEET & YOUR ONE GOOD LEG
ONCE YOU FIND THE WALL IT’S A WALK IN THE PARK
-IT’S JUST ANOTHER BAD DAY IN DICKTOWN

HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL IN POODLE SPRINGS
DON’T WORRY RAY, IT’S DICKTOWN
HE WASN’T LOOKING FOR TROUBLE, SHE WAS LOOKING FOR HIM
DON’T WORRY RAY IT’S ALL DICKTOWN
-IT’S JUST ANOTHER BAD DAY IN DICKTOWN

ONCE YOU FIND THE WALL, THEN YOU FIND THE DOOR
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS GET UP OFF THE FLOOR
IN DICKTOWN

OKAY RAYMONDO, LET’S GO THROUGH THIS AGAIN
ONCE YOU FIND THE WALL THEN YOU FIND THE DOOR
You OPEN THE DOOR you FIND ANOTHER WALL
HOW THE HELL DO I KNOW WHO SHOT THE CHAUFFEUR?
-IT’S JUST ANOTHER BAD DAY IN DICKTOWN

DON’T WORRY RAY, IT’S JUST ANOTHER BAD DAY…
IN DICKTOWN

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from Humbug 23, released December 1, 2023
This was another attempt to just write a song, though it does rely heavily on my delight in the writings of Raymond Chandler. Like all of us, Chandler was not a perfect human being, & his work does contain some mid 20th century white male attitudes most of us might find embarassing now, but his prose is also animated by a dazzling facility with words & am almost visceral contempt for the way mid 20th century US society is organised.
I was trying to explain this to the small audience that had turned up to a sunday folk evening at The Geese & Fountain near Grantham (a brilliant pub run by Nick & Kate until covid & the greed of the owners ruined everything for them). They responded with hostile incomprehension. When I warned them the song contained jazz chords, they looked seriously alarmed, and when i started songing the word "dick" - that was it - they all left.
I recorded it first with Roger Stevens & Ali Gavan on drums on the "That's More Like It" CD, (where it sounded a bit like Dr Feelgood without the demented genius guitar-playing), but since then I have been working on a way to play it as an acoustic guitar based song. We tried it with the Acoustic Irregulars (Sian Allen & Fae Simon) ... i had trouble playing the riff & singing the words, so i rewrote it as the sort of torch song that i thought Chandler might listen to when he was finishing of a bottle of rye. Fae said the original version was better & i should go away & practice.
The torch song became "The Blues Nowadays" which featured in last month's Bandcamp Friday release.

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