The Twelve Bar Blues

Well, it’s the happy hour at the Leaning Tower Pub, But I ain’t happy, it’s true.
I’m so broken hearted, I’m just getting started, Got a lot of heavy drinking to do.
So goodbye, Gus, it’s twelve or bust, I think I got the Twelve Bar Blues.

So I worked my way east on both sides of the street
And I hit every bar that I knew.
My wallet got thinner & my mind got dimmer
But her memory kept glimmering through.
Now my head is buzzing, I must have hit a dozen,
Look out I got the Twelve Bar Blues. [Let’s count ‘em!]

You got the Leaning Tower Pub, The Desert Flower Club,
The Bottom Dollar, Possum Holler & the Moo ‘n’ Brew,
You got the Monkey Shine Tavern, Jack’s Black Cavern,
Got the Whistlestop, the Bunny Hop, the Déjà vu,
The Elbow Room, the Masked Man Saloon
And that’s the Twelve that’s the Twelve Bar Blues

Twelve Bar, Twelve Bar Blues; Twelve Bar, Twelve Bar Blues
Eleven won’t do, there’s just one way to lose those, Twelve Bar Blues

Well I was twelve sheets to the breeze & a voice said “Come with me,
“We got just the place for you.”
And then they threw me in the tank with all the file & rank
Of every bar I’d just been to.
And they said “Come join the fun, the party’s just begun,
“And we all got the Twelve Bar Blues.” [Let’s count ‘em again!]

[Repeat verse 3 & chorus]

Eleven won’t do, there’s just one way to lose those, Twelve Bar Blues
Eleven won’t do, there’s just one way to lose those
Twelve Bar Blues