One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer

[Ptah]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BIvka3SSv9Y

John Lee Hooker

One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer
One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer
Hey mister bartender come here
I want another drink and I want it now

My baby she gone, she been gone two night
I ain't seen my baby since night before last
One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer

(Spoken)
And then I sit there, gettin' high, mellow
Knocked out, feeling good and by the time
I looked on the wall at the old clock on the wall
By that time, it was ten thirty daddy

I looked down the bar, at the bartender
He said, "Now what do you want Johnny?"

One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer

Well my baby she gone, she been gone two night
I ain't seen my baby since night before last
I wanna get drunk till I'm off of my mind
One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer

(Spoken)
And I sat there, gettin' high, stoned
Knocked out, and by the time
I looked on the wall, at the old clock again
And by that time, it was a quarter to two

Last call for alcohol, I said,
Hey mister bartender, what do you want?"

One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer
One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer
One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer



:hi:

[Lautremont]

1. The hell's the scotch?

Great song, btw.

[Ptah]

2. I had already emptied and returned that glass.

:hi:

[RainDog]

3. How Many More Years?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ou-6A3MKow


(these lyrics are useless without music and Howlin' Wolf's scratchy voice)

How many more years, have I got to let you dog me around
How many more years, have I got to let you dog me around
I'd soon rather be dead, sleeping six feet in the ground

I'm gonna fall on my knees, I'm gonna raise up my right hand
I'm gonna fall on my knees, I'm gonna raise up my right hand
Say I'd feel much better darling, if you'd just only understand

I'm going upstairs, I'm gonna bring back down my clothes
I'm going upstairs, I'm gonna bring back down my clothes, do them all
If anybody ask about me, just tell'em I walked out on

plus more not on any lyric site...

----
on mike at the end...

Wolf: We talkin' about the life of a human being. How they live.

[Ptah]

5. I Got My Mojo Working by Willie Dixon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjdcPKcyWsI

[taterguy]

4. That guy's ripping off George Thorogood

:wtf:

[pokerfan]

6. LOL!

As much as I love JLH I have to admit that he's made that song his own by adding the whole story about the landlady with the backrent.

Wanna tell you a story,
about the house-man blues
I come home one Friday,
had to tell the landlady I'd-a lost my job
She said that don't confront me,
long as I get my money next Friday
Now next Friday come I didn't get the rent,
and out the door I went

So I goes to the
landlady,I said, "You let me slide?"
I'll have the rent for you in a month.
next I don't know
So said let me slide it on you know people,
I notice when I come home in the evening
She ain't got nothing nice to say to me,
but for five year she was so nice
Loh' she was lovy-dovy,
I come home one particular evening
The landlady said, "You got the rent money yet?",
I said, "No, can't find no job"
Therefore I ain't got no money to pay the rent
She said "I don't believe you're tryin' to find no job"
Said "I seen you today you was standin' on a corner,
leaning up against a post"
I said "But I'm tired, I've been walkin' all day"
She said "That don't confront me,
long as I get my money next Friday"
Now next Friday come I didn't have the rent,
and out the door I went

So I go down the streets,
down to my good friend's house
I said "Look man I'm outdoors you know,
can I stay with you maybe a couple days?"
He said "Let me go and ask my wife"
He come out of the house,
I could see it in his face
I know that was no
He said "I don't know man, ah she kinda funny, you know"
I said "I know, everybody funny, now you funny too"
So I go back home
I tell the landlady I got a job, I'm gonna pay the rent
She said "Yeah?" I said "Oh yeah"
And then she was so nice,
loh' she was lovy-dovy
So I go in my room, pack up my things and I go,
I slip on out the back door and down the streets I go
She a-howlin' about the front rent, she'll be lucky to get any back rent,
she ain't gonna get none of it
So I stop in the local bar you know people,
I go to the bar, I ring my coat, I call the bartender
Said "Look man, come down here", he got down there
So what you want?

I want bourbon...

[taterguy]

7. The landlady thing is also a John Lee Hooker song

So what Thorogood did is really a medley.

I just wish Youtube had a good version of the original, the raw down and dirty one, not that nearly disco-fied clip that was originally posted.

[pokerfan]

8. I have a JLH version that doesn't have the landlady story

I would love to get my hands on a copy.

[taterguy]

9. The landlady thing is from the song House Rent Boogie

My copy is from the album The Best of John Lee Hooker: 1965 to 1974. That album also has the song "I'm Bad Like Jesse James" which is where Thorogood got the "Let me go and ask my wife" bit.

[pokerfan]

10. Thanks, I will check it out