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
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