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More White House Blues (Live)

from HuckFinnJubilee​-​Live by MohaviSoul

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This is a Live version from our MohaviSoul show 9/27/2019 at the 42nd Annual Huck Finn Jubilee Festival. This is our MohaviSoul sequel to the traditional Bluegrass tune called White House Blues that was about the assassination and burial of President McKinley. With the new craziness of modern politics, a new version to this great tune was written to bemoan the tribalism of today’s political breakdown.

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More White House Blues (Key of G)
by Randy Hanson, MohaviSoul Copyright 2020, MohaviSoul Music – BMI, 9/17/2019
Intro  banjo (Verse melody)
Verse 1 (GG,CG,CG,DG)
G G
I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed
C G
But I don’t go and lose my head
C G
All the way to Washington, you been had
D G
More White House Blues, are comin’ on again.
Chorus (GG,CG,CG,DG)  Four-part Harmony (Randy-melody, Mark-3rd,Orion-5th, Jason-melody below)
G G
Unplugged….Unhinged, slippin’ away (Everyone sings)
C G
Take it to the limit, take it to the judge (Randy/Jason first phrase, Mark/Orion-second phrase)
C G
More White House Blues, my jail birds sing (Randy/Jason first phrase, Mark/Orion-second phrase)
D G
You’re bound to lie, you’re gonna lie (Everyone sings)
Break  fiddle
Verse 2
The judge said to me, what’s your alibi
Wrong Time, Wrong Place, as I started to cry
But I took it to the limit, with a story beyond
Gotta catch that train, before we all go down.
Break  banjo
Verse 3
From McKinley to Nixon, and you know who
Dose doe darlin’, who’s dancin’ with you?
Show up, rise up, get on down,
And dig your soul out, from the underground
Chorus
Break  mando
Verse 4
The weatherman promised me a better day
But my karma ran over your dogma today
Shuffle the deck, and throw the dice
There’s a damn good chance, that we’ll be here twice
Chorus
Tag chorus x2 last line

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from HuckFinnJubilee​-​Live, track released September 17, 2019

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MohaviSoul San Diego, California

MOHAVISOUL, is 5-piece California-style Contemporary Bluegrass-Americana music from our soul, rooted in Folk & Country, reflected in our original music & choice of covers coming from West Virginia roots and 5th-generation California heritage. MohaviSoul has four CD’s, Every Second (1/2013), Blue Diesel (12/2013), Hometown Blues (8/2017), and Live at the 42nd Annual Huck Finn Jubilee (12/2019). ... more

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