20-Year Blues (feat. Skintknuckle)
'20-Year Blues' (featuring 'Skintknuckle')
© 2006 PtH/Honky Chapeau Music [BMI]
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Blues Rock/'Big Band' Blues
Solo acoustic Americana and Alternative Country performing singer/songwriter. Guest harmonicist for others. Performs primarily in Nashville, TN.
Pat 'the Hat' - Performing BMI Songwriter
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Story behind the song
This is one of several songs (now obviously "dated") that I was asked to write and perform over a six-year period for a local community annual observance of "World AIDS Day" (12/1) Usually in keeping with the globally recognized theme decided by the World Health Organization (WHO - not the band! LOL!) this one marked 20 Years of the pandemic. More thanks than you can begin to imagine goes to "Skintknuckle" (a.k.a.: Wade Black) for his unmistakable guitar solo, but even more so for his (literally) YEARS of patience while I learned a new editing program to replace my workhorse Roland VS-880, which finally "gave up the ghost". Thanks, Wade! I had truly NOT forgotten...just moved on to other things. :0'
As Letterman once lamented: "Remember, Paul, when 'safe sex' meant you had to move the headboard out from the wall to keep from hitting your head?"
Lyrics
4/4 Slow Blues/Blues Rock
KEY: A minor
20-YEAR BLUES (feat. "Skintknuckle")
©2002-2006 Pat 'the Hat' Goodrich
Honky Chapeau Music [BMI]
All Rights Deserved!
TWENTY YEARS IS TWENTY YEARS TOO MANY
TOO MANY LOVED ONES LOST, TOO MANY TEARS GONE BY
TOO MANY QUESTIONS WITH TOO FEW ANSWERS, IF ANY
TOO MUCH TO LIVE FOR AIN'T NO GOOD REASON TO DIE
Chorus
TOO MUCH INTOLERANCE, FEAR, AND HATE
TOO MUCH, TOO LITTLE, TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE
PEOPLE, YOU KNOW I JUST CAN'T WAIT
I JUST CAN'T WAIT TO LOSE
THESE 20-YEAR BLUES
THE WORLD KEEPS CHANGING, Y'KNOW IT'S CHANGIN' SO FAST BUT NOBODY SEEMS TO CARE WHERE IT'S ALL GOIN' TO
GOT OUR HEADS STUCK IN THE SAND AND WE DON'T LEARN FROM THE PAST
BUT, PEOPLE, Y'KNOW WE'RE GONNA NEED EACH OTHER
IF WE 'RE EVER GONNA GET THROUGH
Chorus
ALL THIS INTOLERANCE, FEAR, AND HATE
IS TOO MUCH TOO LITTLE, IS TOO LITTLE TOO LATE
PEOPLE, YOU KNOW I JUST CAN'T WAIT
I JUST CAN'T WAIT TO LOSE
THESE 20-YEAR BLUES
Bridge:
SO, PEOPLE, PEOPLE…YOU CAN NEVER GIVE UP HOPE
'CAUSE WHEN THIS DAY IS DONE
AND THE LONG RACE IS RUN
YOU MAY STILL HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO COPE
WITH THE 20 YEAR BLUES
[Guitar solo - same as verse]
Chorus:
ALL THE INTOLERANCE, FEAR, AND HATE
WE GOTTA FIND SOME WAY TO NEGATE
AND PEOPLE, WE GOT NO TIME,
WE GOT NO TIME TO LOSE
THESE 20-YEAR BLUES
(Tag:)
20-YEAR BLUES
(Spoken:) At the end of the year 2001, 40
million people were living with HIV or AIDS and during the year 3 million died from AIDS-related illness.
