Mother Hubbard’s Blues

Album: Snake Farm

Mother Hubbard’s Blues

 

Baby’s got a do rag on her head

An old banjo’s under the bed

She hates the damn thing

But she sure `nough loves them blues

 

She says yelling at a flower don’t make it bloom

It’s sunlight and water and elbow room

But even a rose has got to pay some dues

 

Now the Cross Canadian Ragweed band

Call her Mother Hubbard you understand

The reason is that’s what and who she is

 

This mother knows the value of vapor rub

A belief in God and overdubs

And that good tone is more important than the show or the biz

Show business is a heartbreaking thing

But if you got good tone you can get through the gig

 

Soul Gravy and literature is some of what she prefers

Her old Lucky jeans and analog

She comes to bed in a negligee just to discuss Cinema Verite`

She’s the only woman I know that likes reservoir dogs

I mean I liked it but there was some scenes in there that kind of sceved me out

 

Well I got two nickels and a paradigm

It aint spelled right but it rhymes

I’m getting desperate I’m about to derail

One more thing one last confession

The mother asks some touch questions

Like when Jesus went to heaven did he leave a vapor trail

 

 

Uh,,,,,well I don’t rightly know, well that’s to deep for me.

 

Baby’s got a do rag on her head

An old banjo’s under the bed

She hates the damn thing

But she sure `nough loves them blues

 

Written by Ray Wylie Hubbard 2005

Snake Farm Publishing (SESAC)