Amazing Dave Al Trout`s Hokum Wshboard Band Lyrics

Al Trout`s Hokum Wshboard Band Lyrics

(by David Rosenfield)

 

 Down in Lawrence town by the river Kaw

 Is the rockin'-est band you ever heard or saw

 You won't need earplugs

 'Cuz it's just five mugs

 Makin' jugband jazz without any jugs

 They've got songs a-plenty

 Clean and dirty

 Blue and sporty

 From maybe circa

 Nineteen-twenty

 Or thirty

 Or forty

 Oh, Lordy!

 

 It's Al Trout's Hokum Washboard Band

 And you can hear the leader daily

 Playin' on his ukulele

 

 He leads them through the streets to sing

 And do that string band thing

 

 They've got a stand-up bass

 That'll rock the place

 'Cuz it's in yo' face

 (thumpa thumpa thumpa thumpa)

 The guitar's Hawaiian

 When it starts cryin'

 Your troubles will go where the sun don't shi-ine

 

 Sister Rebekah

 She's a washboard wrecker

 With a nimble thimbled hand

 They've only got one fiddle

 So, it ain't Nelson Riddle

 It's Al Trout's Hokum Washboard Band!

 

 Yeah!

 [instrumental chorus]

 

 They'll kick yo' ass

 'Cuz it ain't bluegrass

 It's Al Trout's Hokum Washboard Band

 

 It's fat and naughty

 But it ain't Pavarotti

 It's Al Trout's Hokum Washboard Band

 

 They've all got white flesh

 But it ain't John Tesh

 It's Al Trout's Hokum Washboard Band

 

 Al Trout's Hokum (scratch, scratch) Band!