Eli Thomson - 12 Bar Blues lyrics

There's only one bar in this town I get drunk at Still I have open tabs at two I dated the waitress at the third bar that I'm thinking of There's four bars in this town I can't even go into My friend Kenny used to tend bar at the fifth one Still tends bar at the sixth one too The seventh bar on this block has a kick-a** jukebox The eighth one will let you smoke inside after two I've sung songs in about nine bars in east Nashville, Tennessee But I know that I've been to at least ten I always go back to good old Eleventh Street Bar in New York City When the twelve bar blues has got me down again I got the twelve bar blues Too many bars to choose Well I will drink tonight And get me feeling alright How many roads must a man walk down To find an affordable bar in the city of Los Angeles Or even more so to find some affordable company Seems like you have to pay for the conversation there in one way or another even if you're not directly involved You're always overhearing the story about the one that got away Or the movie script that the one guy is writing that is going to change everything I feel like if writing stuff down really changed anything A lot more people would know who Philip Levine is He was an American Poet Laureate I wonder why my teachers forgot to tell me about him in school Probably cause his poems have got bad words in them Talk about bored of education; american style I got the twelve bar blues Too many bars to choose Well I will drink tonight And get me feeling alright So hang some taxidermy up on the wall, mute the TV That pool table there gives out every other game for free But don't tell anybody though, the manager doesn't know anything about it That's kind of the way it is at our bar; it's a little broken and it's not that great but hell man, it's ours One time this guy came in to our bar and sang kareoke-style Hooty and the Blowfish We had to ask that guy to leave Not cause we don't like Hooty though Hell man, I hear Hooty is an alright guy So Hooty, this beer is for you my friend Shine on you crazy diamond Don't let the ba*tards get you down Hold my hand; I only want to be with you I got the twelve bar blues Too many bars to choose Well I will drink tonight And get me feeling alright Don't you know I got the twelve bar blues Too many bars to choose Well I will sleep tonight And get me feeling alright