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I Don't Have To Go To High School

from Lonesome Heavy and Lonesome by Petunia and the Vipers

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That is the Minimalist Jugband speaking the intro.
Recorded from the bookstore where he was at in B.C. into the studio microphone in Alberta...over the telephone.
Dance, dance, dance.

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(Recitation into)
“I dreamt that I was back in school, there was a test I had to pass. But I couldn’t find the room, I‘d skipped too many classes. So I was doomed to never graduate. I gave up ‘cause I assumed it was too late. I awoke to find I wasn’t seventeen. No! I was old and grey. This realization was a drag, here’s what I had to say…”

1-2-3-4 I Don’t Have To Go To High School. No, I Don’t Have To Go To High School.

Life since school’s been up and down, poor heart’s been thrashed and stomped upon. Some jobs were brutal, some bosses cruel, but one idea got me through. One thing I know was true…

I Don’t Have To Go To High School. No, I Don’t Have To Go To High School.

I try to sleep and lie awake, getting old’s no piece of cake. You watch your friends and family die while staring at a starless sky. Mocked even by the constellations, still I find constant consolation that…

I Don’t Have To Go To High School. No, I Don’t Have To Go To High School.

There’s things that I don’t care to share. I think there’s things I don’t even dare to think about. Bewilderment, it clouds the mind, but there’s one I have no doubt, in fact I am inclined to shout…

I Don’t Have To Go To High School. No, I Don’t Have To Go To High School.

I’ve been half-starved, I’ve been defeated and I’ve slept out on the streets. I’ve mopped floors and I’ve dug ditches while power hungry sons of bitches turned this planet into a cesspool. That’s what those assholes call successful! I’m a failure, I’m a fool, but still I think it’s kind of cool that…

I Don’t Have To Go To High School. No, I Don’t Have To Go To High School. I Don’t Have To Go To High School. No, I Don’t Have To Go To High School.

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from Lonesome Heavy and Lonesome, released January 15, 2021
Written by the Minimalist Jugband

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Petunia Vancouver, British Columbia

Hank Williams on acid…Tom Waits meets Elvis at Woody Guthrie's Hobojunction...their sound may not sit in any one music genre, so perhaps “Good Music” describes it best? Hillbilly-flavoured-swing inflected-ragtime-goodtime-thunderously rolling-one-of-a-kind-you-don’t-want-to-miss-this-sort-of-a-show…springboards off music of the past jumping into the present day - only echoes of the past remain ... more

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