A MAN’S MAN’S JOB

Yesterday evening the wife came to me and said, “Jack, I’m going to cut the grass.”

I told her no.

She asked me why not and I said, “Cause that’s a man’s man’s job.”

Well she started in with, “I can do anything a man can do and blah, blah, blah.” I let her run with it awhile.

I took to teasing her and telling her that cutting the grass was a man’s man’s job and there was no way she could do a man’s man’s job. It would just have to wait until I healed up.

So that led to one of our typical joke arguments and finally she got the tractor keys and went out to cut grass. Not being able to do much else I stayed inside but I kept thinking about the line, “It’s a man’s man’s job,” and liked it so much that I decided to write a song using that line.

It started out as a joke song but after I got about half way through I let me daughters (and later my wife) read it and they all liked it so I decided I’d make a real song out of it.

Now that the lyrics are finished I have the music in my head as well. I’m gonna turn it into either a deep rhythm and blues song or a smoky soul song. It could go either way.

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A MAN’S JOB

It’s a man’s man’s job
Gotta let me do my man’s man’s job

Woman, I’m a telling you
The way it’s got to be
Ain’t no use pretending
This is just a job for me

When you’re lonely
And you’re feeling down
Call me baby
And I’ll come around

You see now girl
That’s my man’s man’s job
Need to let me do my man’s man’s job

You cain’t do it by yourself you see
That’s just the way it’s always gonna be
When you’re wantin what I’m so good at
Come find me baby cause we both know that

What you needing is a man’s man’s job
What you feeling is a man’s man’s job

Ain’t no fooling ‘bout a man’s man’s job
You know I’ll do it like a man’s man’s job

(Instrumental section and solo)

Gotta let me do my man’s man’s job…

Well, I’m gonna make it all alright
Do my job so very good tonight

If you’ll let me then I’ll do the work
You just lay there baby and enjoy the perks

What ya needing is a man’s man’s job
So I’m gonna do my man’s man’s job

Cain’t nobody do a man’s man’s job
Like I can do a man’s man’s job

So hold on baby her comes ya man’s man’s job
Yeah woman I got ya man’s man’s job…

(Fade out)

JOKER JESTER FOOL

For my very first real post I thought I’d submit a set of song lyrics I recently wrote for a Rhythm and Blues song.

JOKER JESTER FOOL

Well there’s a Joker never got a laugh
The joke was all on him
The Jester couldn’t make it work
Her virtue was her sin

And the Fool
The Fool of All
The Fool was better than them both at what they did

When you laugh at your tomorrow
Then that’s the sport you play
Come love or lasting sorrow
The dark’s as good as day
You jest to hear it spoken
Joke to hear it sung
But far away from everything
You know they were the one

There’s a Fool, a fool who jokes the Jester at their game

The Earth she is a jester
The Moon Man’s just a joke
The future’s all in motion
The past is just all smoke

And the Fool
Well, but the Fool
The Fool is better than them all at what they do

Love is never steady
Seldom is it kind
It’s jested with the ready
Played jokes upon their minds
I’m foolish if I listen
Yet damn me if I don’t
I wish a greater distance
But I know I won’t
Between the jest I want to hear
And the joke upon my heart

There’s a Fool, a fool who jests the Joker by his name

Now the Joker never works the show
In quite the way he thinks
The Jester she don’t ever stop
Cause everything is linked

There’s Jokers all inside of you
There’s Jesters just like me

But the Fool
The Fool in us
Is better than us all at what we do

Yeah, the Fool
That lonely Fool
Is better than us all at what we do…