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Totally Wrong Side Of Town

from One More Highway by Bob Menzies

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East LA – Blues in an Odetta Style – guitar drives it – creates an edge –This is the LA with Helicopters over your apartment while Crosby Stills Nash and Young are singing let Your Freak Flag Fly. Recorded live of the floor with just acoustic guitar and violin, the rogues are heading downtown

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Totally Wrong Side of Town
words and music created by Bob Menzies May 1, 2012, changed Sep 18, Oct 1

BPM 120 – Time 4:20
12 Bar Blues in D Minor…Violin and acoustic guitar only
East LA – Blues in an Odetta Style – guitar drives it – creates an edge –This is the LA with Helicopters over your apartment while Crosby Stills Nash and Young are singing let Your Freak Flag Fly
Intro Dm Gm Dm Am Dm

Verse 1
Dm
It’s just you and me kid, and it’s gonna get tense
Gm
There’s buckets of blood all over that fence
Dm
Better get out quick I see something there
Am Dm Am Dm
Coming round the corner coming up the stairs

Verse 2
Long black arms and a broken nose
Where it came from nobody knows
Lots of crazy stuff about to go down
We stumbled into the wrong side of town Am Dm

Verse 3
There’s crazy Linda and her lifelong friend
The Japanese Ambassador, with pockets of yen
He’s got something up his sleeve but she don’t mind
That sleeve holds a blade about ten inches wide Am Dm

Verse 4
Gonna use it on salmon or maybe a pimp
He loves to cook but he ain’t no wimp
Think I’ll follow them both I won’t make a sound
When we cross the line to …the wrong side of town Am Dm

Chorus
Gm Dm
Hey Momma, I’ve seen it before, there’s no turning back when you walk through that door
Gm
Hey Hey Hey Hey Momma , don’t put me down,
Am Dm Am Dm
There’s a bad kind of voodoo…on the wrong side of town
Verse 5
When I was a kid I remember it well
Everybody’d laugh each time I fell
I got back up each and every time
One day you can be sure I got mine

Verse 6
I pummeled and I punched and I kicked and I screamed
Like I’s in the middle of a crazy ass dream
It’s all coming back as I watch it go down
We just turned a corner to the wrong side of town

Verse 7
Just as I thought it’s my brother in there
All cracked up and smoked out, no hint of fear
He’s got some kind of weapon and he’s ready to go
He got nothing left and nowhere to go

Verse 8
What could I do, I ran Linda by
While her friend the ambassador pulled on the knife
Now the ambassador and brother Jim have both gone down
I’ll probably have to stay here on the wrong side of town.

Chorus
Hey Momma, I’ve seen it before
There’s no turning back when you walk through that door
Hey Hey Hey Hey Momma , don’t put me down
There’s a wild kind of voodoo…on the wrong side of town

4 Bars - Gm Dm Am Dm

Verse 9
I could tell you how much I loved that brother of mine
But after a while it’s just another line
I got a story but so do you
The only difference is mine is true

Verse 10
O Mother of Christ, it’s finally here
Can you save me one more time can’t you hear
They’re headin our way for cryin out loud
A bad turn has took you to the wrong side of town

Chorus
Outro – ends on A7 

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from One More Highway, released January 1, 2014
Features James Gray of Blue Rodeo on violin

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Bob Menzies Sooke, British Columbia

Bob Menzies is a Canadian folk-rock, alt-country singer-songwriter originally from Montreal and now living in Sooke, a small oceanside town on Vancouver Island’s south coast. He has recorded 5 albums of original music previously and his newest recording is the 2018 EP IN THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS. ... more

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