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Stay At Home Daddy Blues (Live in San Angelo)

from Roots by Jhett Black

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lyrics

Forty hours, eight-a-day, five in a row then I’d get paid
Call up my gal and tell her I'm on my way
With a box of chocolates and roses too
Gonna hit the town put on our dancing shoes
I’d spend all my money but you know that I’d be getting laid

So I kept on working, she did too
I brought home the money then we made two
Of daddy’s little angels with eyes of blue

Then all that changed in the twinkle of an eye
On the day that I got fired

I said I’d stay home take of everything
I’d do all the dishes and I’d cook and clean
I’d stay at home with the kids while she got her old job back
Didn’t sound too bad

But now I don’t party and I don’t much laugh
Cause I do all the dishes and take out the trash
She picked up more hours and I picked up the mop and broom
Too true

I say oh my Lord what have done
To receive this retribution
I’ll do anything that you ask me to
Just to ditch these stay-at-home daddy blues

Now I can’t pull the kids from their screens
And I done shrunk the whole dang family's jeans
Now when she gives me the eye, I reply, babe not tonight
I’m too tired

Cause that Pinterest meal you wanted, well, it went sideways
The whole thing went up in one big fiery blaze
The kids are getting hungry and it’s already half past eight
Getting late.

Besides, I'll be up before the dawn
Cooking you all breakfast then I know you’ll be gone
Enjoying your drive to work while you leave me here to slave
Every day

I say oh my Lord what have done
To receive this retribution
I’ll do anything that you ask me to
Just to ditch these stay at home daddy blues

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from Roots, released February 18, 2022
Written by Jhett Black
Recorded and mix by Gary Laney at Nautilus Recording

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Jhett Black Nashville, Tennessee

Foot stomping rhythms and raucous slide guitar wage war on struggle beneath the bass/baritone howls
of Jhett Black.
After a decade of playing dive bars, the recent pandemic has forced his hands back into
the rural soil of his
youth. The blues, woven into the young man’s heart, pour out with the passionate
performance of an older soul. ... more

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