
The Kelly Song Collective
Court Jester
I came into your hometown just looking for a drink.
Dragged my ass into a bar thinking I might think.
My donkey tried to steer me straight. I should have listened to my mule.
I’m a court jester who sings the blues.
Times were good. I fell in love with you at your first word.
Off your tongue came melodies no one’s ever heard.
You sang an ugly ultimatum to me. I chose the booze
Just like a court jester singing the blues.
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And the blues won’t leave me be. They just keep following me.
They just keep me down since I rode in to your hometown.
I can see your roof from here. It’s needing some repairs.
I don’t know about heaven man. I just can’t stand your stares.
Please take your sad eyes off of me. Mama, look down at your shoes.
for a court jester who sings the blues.
Forty days and forty nights of women, wine, and song;
In their dreams is where I really feel that I belong.
Come on back to sleep with me so I can lose
this court jester who sings the blues.
I can’t walk on water. I just stepped on people’s toes.
They don’t look me in the eye when they look down their nose.
Authority and I have differed on some views –
A court jester who sings the blues.
I don’t come from royalty. Blue bloods make me wince.
I’m just a lonely pauper. I’m not some Pauper.Prince.
Let alone this joke above my head ‘King of the Jews’.
I’m a court jester who sings the blues.
Have you ever had a nine inch nail driven through your wrist?
This is so surreal man. Just last night I’m getting pissed
with a green-eyed girl in her father’s bar. Called herself Sue
to a court jester who sings the blues.
Please don’t start no rumours. Don’t talk of me when I’m gone -
just a simple eulogy, just a child’s song.
You can use my melody. The words are yours to choose
about a court jester who sang the blues.
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© Audsongs 2010
