Hutch - Mountain Home Blues (SHADOW)

from SpinTunes 17 Round 1 by Spintunes

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I've had the last verse hanging around for several years and couldn't do anything with it. As I was first thinking about this lyric, I tripped over this verse in my collection of oddball bits and pieces. Treating it as a last verse instead of a first verse suddenly made the whole idea make sense.

Morale of the story: keep those cool fragments somewhere handy and look at them every once in a while.

I'm thinking of this song in the style of an old-time country blues. Think Jimmy Rogers or Jimmy Martin or early Hank Williams. It really should have at least a couple of breaks for improvisations between verses. And, to sound like Jimmy Rogers, it really should have at least one yodel. :-)

lyrics

I was born in Denver, near the Rockies so fair
Atop the Great Divide, you breathe the sweet mountain air
I've got the "blue as Rocky Mountain skies in summer" blues

Got a job in western Virginia, just talkin' on the phone
The pay is good. I finally got a place of my own
I got the "telephone ringing sounds like cash register dinging" blues

When first I saw the Appalachians, I saw they were the real deal,
They're real, live mountains. No, they ain't just hills.
I got the "deep in the mountains that aren't the right mountains" blues

I loved a Colorado girl, the sweetest in the state
But when I moved away from there, she said she couldn't wait
Then I got the "baby left me when I moved away from Colorado" blues

So now I'm tryin'a find a lady and I'm tryin'a find a friend
And I'm tryin'a find a baby who has got some time to spend
But I got the "seems like no one's available in this whole town" blues

The sun is high; the mountains all around
Everybody's got somebody in this town.
I got the "deep in the southern Appalachian Mountain summer" blues

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from SpinTunes 17 Round 1, released March 15, 2021

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