12. Rock Bottom

ROCK BOTTOM

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Rock Bottom, I gottem
I got the Rock Bottom blues,
Rock Bottom, I gottem,
got the Rock Bottom blues
I don’t know how I caught ‘em
I’d be better off without ‘em
It’s the blues I’d really love to lose.

I knew a boy name Timmy who was so forlorn
he had the rock bottom blues since the day he was born
fell out of the crib, cracked his head
the very first words that little Timmy said,

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He said that trouble was the only thing that he ever had had,
he gotta lotta luck, but it’s all been bad,
They took the job, they took the house, he lost the wife, she kept the kids
Hit Rock Bottom, hit the road, hit the skids,

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One day he got to thinkin’, “What have I got to lose,
ceptn’ this case of the rock bottom blues?”
So when the carnival came into town he went
to watch Kamakazi Kitty in the hoochie coochie tent,
she shimmied and she wiggled and she give him the eye,
she said, “after the show why don’t you drop on by?”
That was the beginning of their big romance
in which Kamakazi Kitty taught Timmy to dance.
She showed him every move that she ever had learned,
when they cut a rug together, man the dance floor burned,
the samba and the rhumba and limbo too,
the zumba and the mambo and the boogaloo.
They bopped downtown, and they boogied up the alley,
they got a little house way up in the valley,
rockin’ and a rollin’, they were hoppin’ and a twitchin’,
they were waltzin’ in the parlor they were twistin’ in the kitchen.
The day that Timmy got his fancy dancin’ shoes
he knew he’d never have to worry bout the rock bottom blues.

Rock Bottom, I forgot ‘em
I dropped the Rock Bottom blues.
Rock Bottom, I forgot ‘em
I dropped the Rock Bottom blues.
I don’t know how I caught ‘em
but I’m better off without ‘em,
it’s the blues I’m really happy
to lose.