Twelve Bar Hustle

They all liked him

in my time.

They all liked him.

The girls liked him.

The guys liked him

and they didn't understand

but the guys liked him.

They liked to watch him slide.

He could never spike a person

but he could always bang the whole gang.

Oh yeah.

It seems to me

I'm getting older

and I'm getting on,

and my ex wives got all the records

but I know all the songs.

But after all, could it be

you're gonna bring my baby to me?

Is it you?  

Yeah? Yeah? Yeah?

I've been down

and he's been down 

but he just sings,

"everyone, rock on.

Oh baby, rock on."

In my time

we were electric children

underneath the bebop moon 

and the mambo sun.

Even though it was all

a twelve bar hustle

and with your Les Paul

you were corkscrew and small,

life's a gas even though it doesn't last.