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Hughie Cannon's Blues

from Grainy Days by Jon Waterman

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Hughie Cannon’s Blues

Hear that old piano rollin out a ragtime melody
From the bars where Hughie Cannon used to play
To the rhythm of the shots of gin and whiskey goin down
A good timin' song that still gets sung today
Where the rounders and the railroad men the gamblers and the whores
Told their stories from the darker side of life
And a kid at the piano heard a drunkard at the bar
Describe how he’d been tossed out by his wife

Up on Tin Pan Alley Hughie Cannon's got a song
And Mrs. Bailey moanin all night long
She handed her philanderin' man a pair of walkin shoes
Now many a minstrel knows the tune of Hughie Cannon's blues
It's 60 miles from Detroit to Toledo
You can go that distance any way you choose
And there's a lot of men who've fallen goin sideways down that road
And many a minstrel knows the tune of Hughie Cannon's blues

From Jackson to Manhattan, Hughie Cannon made his name
Writing music for the publishers to sell
Some songs were sold for parlors and some were sold for shows
And some nights he spent locked in a holding cell
Cause Hughie Cannon had been drinking hard from the time he was a kid
And as a man his drinking drove away his wife
He drank away the songs he wrote and the money that he made
Then at 34 he drank away his life

But back on Tin Pan Alley Hughie Cannon had a song
Where a widow mourned the man who'd done her wrong
Fast livin had caught up with him and he had to pay his dues
And many a minstrel knows the tune of Hughie Cannon's blues
It was 34 years from Detroit to Toledo
Goin by the way of pills and booze
And there's a lot of men who've fallen goin sideways down that road
And many a minstrel knows the tune of Hughie Cannon's blues
©2011 Jon Waterman

“Bill Bailey Won’t You Please Come Home” - Hughie Cannon

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from Grainy Days, released March 16, 2018
Jon Waterman- Vocal and Guitars
Eric Brown- Drums
Steve Toutant- Bass
Chris Decado- Piano

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