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Riley's Life

from Turning Pages by Andrew McKnight

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I really don’t have it so bad. This is just a little funky folkie hippy hop bit of fun – set your stereo to the “big dance mix” setting and enjoy the party.

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Words & music A. McKnight, ©1999 Catalooch Music, BMI

Verse 1
Well I wake up to the same old news, same lonesome bed and Einstein doo
No genius needed here to know this here's a house of blues
Here in my bachelor pad old bachelor dog and a spinster cat
These dreams have turned to rags chained to me in the same old bags

Chorus
Welcome to a day, a day, in Riley's life
Welcome to a day, a day, in Riley's life
Welcome to a day, a day, in Riley's life

Verse 2
Ol' Uncle Murphy had it right you see, I'm a man in misery
knew I would not amount to much, with my reverse Midas Touch
Every woman I meet gets to watch my tongue wrapping around my feet
the day you come along I'll be wearing my coffee, and living this song
Chorus

Bridge
You might call me crazy, you might call me mad
but I'm still the best thing, you ever had

Verse 3
Well the lawn ain't mowed and the sink's piled up and the trash sticks out of the trash can top
phone rings in the middle of the night wrong number, someone looking for a fight
Weather Channel's on, it's the same old news, it's the dog day summertime blues
rattle round this house like a wrecking ball, sometimes I think of you

Chorus
Chorus

credits

from Turning Pages, released May 1, 2001
AM - vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, finger snaps
Don Porterfield - fretless bass
Norm Thorne - percussion
Terri Allard, Mary Byrd Brown – harmony vocals
Marco Delmar – finger snaps

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Nationally-acclaimed singer/songwriter and guitarist celebrates rural America, weaves masterfully crafted songs, humorous stories and poetic drama into a musical soundscape sketched with shades of Appalachia, tasteful slide and jazzy blues, feisty anthems, and rustic folk. 5 solo CDs heard on many public & community radio, plus NPR "Art of the Song" & "River City Folk" and XM/Sirius. ... more

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