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Arizona Bill

from Let it Go by Michael Waite

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lyrics

Past the prickly pear and over the hill
Lives an old clown named Arizona Bill
He sleeps all alone in a house made of logs
With a shotgun mind and a sleepy old dog
The dog says, “Woof” and the cat says “meow”
He sits at a window and stares at a cow
He writes in a letter, “Please be home soon.”
Sends it by air mail straight for the moon
He sticks his spoon in a pot full of beans
And wipes that shit all over his jeans

He flunked out of school, blamed the rules
He’s proud to be an American fool
He pees standing up and shits sittin down
Just like every other circus clown
But this guy’s weird, he’s as queer as they come
And his strings Are wound just as tight as a drum
So you stay off his land and you just leave him be
‘Cause you don’t wanna hang from his old pear tree.

He joined the circus when he was sixteen
They treated him bad. They treated him mean
So he hates everybody all over the earth
The only thing he regrets is his birth
He was born in a barn and raised by a chicken
Taught himself that a nose is for pickin’
He goes around swallowing other people’s pride
Leaves him feeling real empty inside
So he acts like he’s got nothing to hide
He hung up a trophy each time that he lied


He’s a big boy bathing in a brown bathtub
With a King Kong cobra that he killed with a club
He’s always drinking beer ‘cause he hates the feel of fear
And the bubbles from his Captain Crunch baking powder sub
The dog’s in the kitchen and the cat went to town
Diggin on some barbecued beef that he found
And Arizona Bill can’t seem to sit still
‘Cause winter’s coming on and the wind’s got a chill
So he’s moving to the Gobi, gonna live in an adobe
He’ll never cut his hair ‘cause he lost his mother’s Flowbee

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from Let it Go, released October 31, 2012

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Michael Waite Marquette, Michigan

Michael Waite weaves together folk, jazz, Americana, blues, and classic singer/songwriter elements into songs that explore the nuances of everyday life while staying grounded in the pursuit of happiness and wholeness.

His songs and arrangements have a fresh creativity and feature vocal improvisations informed by his first instrument, the jazz trombone. ... more

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