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01/28/09 - Absinthe (with Helen Keller's Ukulele)
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- about
- I'm playing an absinthe party on Saturday in San Francisco. I wanted to write a song about absinthe for the occasion. My friend Rita (Helen Keller's Ukulele) wrote a song about Absinthe that I really like. I decided to add my own verses to her choruses to see what happened. In the tradition of old jazz and blues I recycled one song into another.
Check out Helen Keller's Ukulele here: www.myspace.com/majestika
- lyrics
- absinthe makes my heart grow greener
absinthe makes my heart grow mean
and when you're gone I drink as much as I want
until the fairy puts the squeeze on me
you can buy yourself a bottle
you can pour yourself a shot
you can set your life on fire
and lose everything you got
down a darkened alley
on that lonely street
you can find that wicked fairy
where there's no one else to meet
absinthe makes my heart grow greener
absinthe makes my heart grow mean
and when you're gone I drink as much as I want
until the fairy puts the squeeze on me
she'll tell you the sweetest stories
she'll take you by the hand
and when she's through, doin what she wants to you
it'll be a miracle if you can stand
you left me for a chorus girl
then you left me for a choir boy
I left you for a dark green bottle
and its brought me so much joy
absinthe makes my heart grow greener
absinthe makes my heart grow mean
and when you're gone I drink as much as I want
until the fairy puts the squeeze on me
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from
Kim's Thirty-One - 31 songs in 31 days - January 2009,
released 01 January 2006
kim vermillion and helen keller's ukulele
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