Watched You Drive Away

September 30, 2010 7:48 PM

Just in under the wire for September's "transpo" Challenge theme.

posted by flapjax at midnite (4 comments total) 2 users marked this as a favorite

I ♥ that diddley bow.

What are you using for the stompbox?

(I added challenge tags to this!)
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 4:31 AM on October 1, 2010


Thanks for adding tags, Karlos. I got this in under the gun and immediately had to run to a rehearsal. No time for adding all the tags!

The stompbox is a little wooden wedge-shaped box that my Medicine Bone bandmate and good buddy Ken Shima made for me. It's just got a cheap piezo pickup in it, nothing fancy. I run it through a BOSS graphic EQ pedal, pumping the bass only. Well, that's what I did for this. Sometimes I cut the bass and bring up mids or highs, depending...

I usually post a link to a photo of the diddley bow, whenever I post a tune that uses it, so, I guess I'll do that again here.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 5:11 AM on October 1, 2010


I love how insistent the rythym is on this-- driving, you might say, in keeping with the challenge theme. The whole thing is just very tight.
posted by InfidelZombie at 12:53 PM on October 9, 2010


Lyrics:

WATCHED YOU DRIVE AWAY

i watched you drive away in your car
i turned and walked back into the bar
i been a-drinking ever since that day
aw baby why'd you have to drive away

i watched you drive away in your car
ain't no telling baby, no telling where you are

y'used to take me out on a sunday drive
i felt so happy just to be alive
i used to fill up your tank with gas
anything you wanted you just had to ask

i watched you drive away in your car
ain't no telling baby, no telling where you are

i'm going crazy
like a man without a driving wheel
you'd come back to me baby
if you knew just how i feel

i hope you'll come back n'make everything alright
i listen out for your car every night
but i'm saving my nickels, n'i'm trying to get a loan
i'm gonna get myself a car of my own

i watched you drive away in your car
ain't no telling baby, no telling where you are

Copyright P & C Samm Bennett - all rights reserved
posted by flapjax at midnite at 10:59 PM on July 15, 2011


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