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Blurt.media Blues Radio - Bigfoot Banjo

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First snow crunch on the old pine track
Coffee in a tin cup
Flannel on my back
Pluck two strings
Hear a tree branch snap
Here comes Bigfoot
Barefoot
Baseball cap

[Verse 2]
He ducks that beam in the logfront door
Mud on the rug
Fur on the floor
Says
"You start pickin'
I’ll stomp the time"
Voice so low it shakes my clothesline

[Chorus]
Bigfoot at the banjo shack
Hairy hands smacking that backbeat thwack
Every time I hit that twangy run
He comes lumbering in to steal my fun
Bigfoot at the banjo shack
Grinning with a toothpick and a canvas pack
If I start to strum
He’s on his way
Guess I found a jam mate today

[Verse 3]
[low vocal register]
He don’t talk much
But he sure can howl
Sings three notes
Makes the coyotes bow
I pass him a jar
He sniffs
Says “Fine”
Takes one sip
Starts keeping perfect time

[Verse 4]
Fiddle on the mantle
He grabs the bow
Sawing out scales like a circus show
I bend some notes on the wheezy reeds
He does a little two-step on his giant feet

[Chorus]

[Bridge]
[call-and-response]
I say
“Buddy
You’re a legend”
(He says, “Keep it down”)
“Folks been hunting you for ages”
(“They ain’t found this town”)
I say
“Why you always show when I play that tune?”
He shrugs
“’Cause that backwoods bounce makes the spruce trees swoon”

[Verse 5]
We swing from a lonesome hillbilly line
Into crooked scales
All twist and wind
I hit that fast run
He yells
“Oy vey!”
Then spins like a dreidel in a stack of hay

[Chorus]

[Outro]
[guitar solo] (banjo takes it)
Fiddle screams high
Harmonica moans low
Boots and big feet thump in a row
If you hear strange laughs in the midnight air
It’s just me and old Bigfoot
Picking up there
At the banjo shack
Way off the map
Come and clap
If you can find the track

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