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I wrote this song down by texting it to a friend, one couplet at a time.

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She was just my color and just my size,
She had a swivel in her hip and the devil in her eyes,
I slipped so slowly that before I knew,
Every song that I wrote was coming' out blue.

Smooth Sailin' through the gates of hell,
she might a had my number but I never could tell
I slipped so slowly that before I knew,
Every song that I wrote was coming out blue.

Knee deep in the mud by the bank,
Cause I tried to swim to shore when my love ship sank,
I slipped so slowly that before I knew,
Every song that I wrote was coming out blue.

I looked at my shadow and to my surprise,
I wasn't any bigger than a little bitty fly,
so I flapped my wings and I buzzed around,
and I kissed my baby where the sun goes down,
I caught the fever and I caught the flu,
and I every song that I wrote started coming' blue

I don't want to walk away, but I can't take no more
I was standing up for something, I forget what for,
I slipped so slowly that before I knew,
Every song that I wrote started coming out blue.

She was just my color and just my size,
She had a swivel in her hip and the devil in her eyes,
I slipped so slowly that before I knew,
Every song that I wrote was coming' out blue.

bonus verse
I ain't that evil and i aint that bad,
and I ain't for nobody always diggin' in my past
sometimes you win, sometime you lose,
sometimes all your songs start to coming out blue

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from Distillations of The Blues, released April 1, 2015

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Ted Hefko and The Thousandaires New Orleans, Louisiana

Ted Hefko & The Thousandaires stir up an intoxicating brew of the profound and the profane, of virtue and vice and most importantly the volatile in-between. Ted’s songs explore hope and hustlers, saints and strays, drifters and the down-and-out. The band brings these stories to life with the spontaneity of jazz, and the rough-hewn, bare-bones tone of backwoods rhythm and bllues. ... more

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