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Two Dollar Dream

from Not As Bad As It Could've Been by Scarth Hog

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    Scarth Hog stirs the swampy pot of rawk, blues, jazz, metal and punk loosely known as noise rock. Based at Canberra, Australia. Have snouts will travel. Here be their debut album ‘Not As Bad As It Could’ve Been’.

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lyrics

Woke up in a town called Jellyroll
‘Bout sixty miles north of Wheredafugg
Euphemisms perched on the ‘phone wires
Innuendo owned the alleys
The General Store sold lemon-squeezers
I asked them for a melon-twister
That got me my first warnin’
‘We don’t hold with no sugar-pourin’ ’
But all I really wanted was a two dollar dream
Two-dollar dream, I want a two-dollar dream…

So I crossed the street to the Jellyroll Tavern
Where the jukebox ain’t got but thirty songs
They got ‘House Of The Rising Free Bird’, ‘Bad Mustang Sally On The Rise’
All the hits a normal feller might wanna hear
That didn’t pull my dime… I waited for the band to start
The band set up and played every song on the jukebox in alphy-betical order
So I took out my custom-made vintage kazoo and asked to sit in
That got me my second warnin’
They said “this here’s our fingers and our pie, boy, go find your own”
Well, god bless the child, god bless the motherfucking child that’s got his own!
Two-dollar dream, I want a two-dollar dream…

Then I sat me down by the riverside
Where an original swam by, wearin’ nothin’ but gooseflesh and a smile
A school of clichés dragged it under, stripped it clean in seconds
Its bones were just an ivory puzzle, twisting in the riverweed
And that was my third warnin’
So now I’m travellin’ on down to Mediocreville
See if there’s a dream down there I can afford
Two-dollar dream, I want a two-dollar dream…

credits

from Not As Bad As It Could've Been, released October 8, 2019
Music & lyrics: Bill Bostle; arr. Scarth Hog.
Contains a fragment of lyric from God Bless The Child (Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog Jnr; pub. Edward B Marks Music).

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Scarth Hog Canberra, Australia

Scarth Hog: stirs the swamp of rawk, blues, jazz, metal and punk loosely known as noise rock. Canberra, Australia.

Bill Bostle (King Snake Roost, Half, The Skronks, Born Again Pagans, Car Hank Died In): bass, vocals

Phil Gemmell (Corpse, Demise, Deadlights, Prosthetic Heads, The Laureates): guitars

Mark Woods (Hell Yes, Il Bruto): drums, more cowbell

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