I've Got the Chain Store Blues

歌詞

I've rambled from Canada to the Panama Canal I've hustled and gambled with many a pal Sailed on the Atlantic for a year or more I've even been a clerk in a ten cent store I went from Maine to the Golden Gate Even shook a shimmy with my sister Kate Saw Uncle Jack, the Jelly Roll King Give Clara Bow her diamond ring I fired the boiler for Ford's sawmill Even drawed the water for Jack and Jill Worked a while on the old S P Then I floated on a cracker down to Tennessee I've tucked the covers for old Queen Anne I shot three times at a regular man Voted for Hoover, even shined his shoes I'm the man who wrote the "Jake Walk Blues" I'm always bragging wherever I go 'Bout building the ark in Jericho Favor taxes when they're not misplaced And I'm smoking Golden Grain in a Chesterfield's place I went to school with Red Riding Hood I've gambled on the rock where Moses stood Saw Gid Tanner when he tried to wed The "Bully Of The Town" to "Ida Red" I've done the Charleston with big Babe Ruth It's an awful easy thing to misplace the truth If you want to hear another, just play the other side While I take my gal for a buggy ride