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My Baby's Gone

from Hot Guitar by Oven Mitt Johnson

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My baby’s gone
My baby’s gone away!
My baby’s gone
My baby’s gone away!
And I’m feelin’ mighty sorry
For what I said the other day.

I’m gonna tell you how it started
Here’s how it started the other day.
I’m gonna tell you how it started
Here’s how it started the other day.
Yeah, I’m fixin somethin’ in the bathroom
And she keeps goin’ on about rollin’ in the hay.

I said, baby you know what I need,
But you know about it at the wrong time.
I said, baby you know what I need,
But you know about it at the wrong time.
Well she talks like that when I got the bathroom all torn apart
Yeah, it must surely be a crime.

Now she left me that afternoon
And my bathroom’s still a mess.
She left me that same afternoon,
And my bathroom’s still a mess.
Now there’s somethin’ bout fixin’ my toilet
Well it don’t make me wanna get undressed.

My baby’s gone
My baby’s gone away!
My baby’s gone
My baby’s gone away!
And I’m feelin’ mighty sorry
For what I said the other day.

This is Oven Mitt Johnson callin’ from Memphis, Tennessee. Y’know, Elvis Presley is like the big bang of rock ’n roll. It all came from there. And what you had in Elvis Presley is a very interesting moment because, really, to be pretentious about it for a minute, you had two cultures collidin’ there. You had kind of a white European culture and an African culture comin’ together. The rhythm (ok?) of, of black music and the melody/chord progressions of white music just all came together in that kind of spastic dance of his. That was the moment. That’s really it. Out of all that came the Beatles, the Stones, but you can’t after underestimate what happened. It does get back to Elvis.

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from Hot Guitar, released September 1, 2005

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David Minnick Detroit, Michigan

David Minnick is obsessed with choosing seemingly impossible musical projects and seeing them through to completion. He creates music in a multitude of genres (orchestral, blues, ska, free jazz, gamelan, klezmer, psychedelic pop, pirate music, a cappella, to name a few) and plays several instruments.
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