Music

Check Out The Career!

drumkit - gerald dowd
bass guitar - john abbey
electric guitar (first solo) and piano - scott ligon
electric guitar (second solo), vocal, and backing vocals - robbie fulks

This one evolved from a high-school career day talk I gave in 2006, also memorialized as an essay in the country-troubadour prose collection "A Guitar and A Pen." The piano riffs are as scattered and infrequent as they are because Scott was high that night and not really feeling it, continuously. I like both our guitar solos.

Lyrics

Check out the career
It’s not a complex one
200 pounds of gear
One city to the next one
Red Roof to the nightclub
Song and a dance, couple three beers
Thousand dollars in my pocket
Check out the career

Your boss is a bi-atch
My promoter’s the same
When I wake up in the morning
I won’t remember his name
I’ll be tearing down the two-lane
And you’ll still be stuck right here
Trying to dream up a way out
Check out the career

BRIDGE:
Sailing through life on a song
Grab some applause and move on
Man don't it strike you as wrong?

You hit the books, went to med school
Me I studied Muddy Waters
And when you’re rotting in a rest home
I’ll be loving on your daughter
Hey, what’s this whole thing about:
Inching up a ladder year after year,
Or going down with a great big smile?
I think the choice is clear.

So 'round the plant I trot
Just a happy little showman
Willie Nelson I'm not
But I ain't no Willie Loman
Got the critics at my feet
And my public right by the ear
And tonight it's a full house!
Bitch, check it out...

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Guitar Chords/Tab

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