Get all 9 Bad Bob Bates releases available on Bandcamp and save 20%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of DeadBeat, Let It Go - EP, Rough 'n' Ready, The Mill Session, Come Home For Christmas, Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer, BX3 EP, Bridge Street, and 1 more.
1. |
Sausalito
04:49
|
|||
|
Looking back across the bay, the mist is rolling in from the ocean
But that don't touch us sitting here, sunglasses on and the sky is golden
The yachts are heading to the gate and the ferry boat is sailing back past Quentin
The pier head takes no time at all, but it's worlds away from where I was sitting
A man I heard would sing a song bout leaving his heart in San Francisco
Well that's fine by him, but my hearts been left behind in Sausalito. I left my heart in Sausalito
Break
Time slips by much slower than it does as the hours go by in mission
Where you pull on your jacket and turn your collar up to keep the chill from creeping
The Bay bridge stretching out across to Northern California sure looks good/fine
But I prefer the ferry boat to the place I hope one day is mine
A man I heard would sing a song bout leaving his heart in San Francisco
Well that's fine by him, but my hearts been left behind in Sausalito. I left my heart in Sausalito.
|
||||
2. |
Let It Go
03:44
|
|||
|
You tell me what you read in the papers
You tell me what you hear in the news
But all I see is future dictators
And the 21st century blues
Let it go - let it go now x 2
Way out west at the church of no hope
Just off highway 1
Needed somewhere out of the heat
And the preacher said you're unclean son
Let it go - let it go now x 2
So I stepped out into the sunlight
Thought about what he had said
I looked at the history of religious men
Where what they had done had led
Yeeeaaah......... let it go now
Break
You tell me that I should know better
You tell me I should turn the page
That's fine if all you want from life
Is living in a brand new cage
Let it go.... etc
You're telling me things are alright now
telling me the future's bright now
Telling me the hurt is worth it
Not to me it's bad I curse it
TV news is propaganda
Papers full of lies and slander
No one questions all just take it
I don't buy it they just fake it.
Let it go - let it go now x 2
Let it go
|
||||
3. |
Sometimes
06:24
|
|||
|
We met in our final year
You were in art school and I didn't care what I was studying much
We got close as the days grew long
Your hair was gold and your eyes they shone (and I loved you so).
We moved in to our own place
Our attic flat had seen better days (but it was home)
I DJ'd in a local club
You worked on the bar in an old man's pub and we got by (more or less)
Ch
Sometimes you gotta take what you can get
Sometimes you look up when things are wrecked
Sometimes you gotta recognise that things that make your life worthwhile
Are the times you've spent - on the journey through the years
What makes you smile
How you lay your head
I put up an ad to get in a band
I played guitar and bought myself a van - and we did ok. No money in it
You thought we should get real jobs
So we did and bought a house in the cheap end of town and we worked hard all day - kept the weekends for play
Three years in she came along,
Her hair was gold and her eyes they shone - and we loved her so
One week early but that's ok
I worked a bit harder and got better pay, then we moved again
Ch + break
Then number two she came along
Her hair was gold and her eyes they shone - and we loved her so (three weeks early)
Things were tough - moved to my home town
Gotta another place cos I laid the money down
And the kids went to school
I started playing in another band
A guitar in my hands and plans on my mind but they went nowhere too
Now time's slipped by and the kids are grown
Jobs and plans and homes of their own but we're still here
Ch
It's a Friday night having drinks with friends
The sun's going down as a another week ends - and I'm tired
Now I was looking over as the shadows grow long
Your hair was silver and your eyes they shone - and I love you so (finish on hanging chord)
|
||||
Bad Bob Bates Blaydon, UK
Tyneside (UK) based solo/duo/band performer - a mix of foot stompin' solo workouts and band pieces, ranging from full on dirty blues to Americana ballads that’ll have you crying in your beer. BBB also plays in The Bates Motel, The Bandits, Ma Kelly's Boys and West Brook & Swamp Tea. ... more
If you like Bad Bob Bates, you may also like:
Buffalo Nichols
by Buffalo Nichols
With virtuosic guitar-playing and evocative singing, Carl “Buffalo” Nichols returns Black stories to folk and blues.
go to album
A concept record about coming-of-age gleefully grifts from all types of rock music, from garage to glam to power pop.
go to album
Inspired by their travels in New Orleans, Naples, and the UK, the “Italian-hills country blues” duo pen a global love letter to roots music.
go to album
Bittersweet Demons
by The Murlocs
The fifth record of soulful and rootsy rock and roll from Melbourne group The Murlocs.
go to album
Cerebral palsy curbed his ability to play guitar the conventional way, so Nagoda learned double slide, this is his debut LP.
go to album
Local Customs: Burned at Boddie
by Various Artists
featured on Bandcamp Radio Feb 14, 2017
go to album
Local Customs: Downriver Revival
by Various Artists
featured on Bandcamp Radio Feb 14, 2017
go to album
