Name: Bob Dorough's Birthday Song by Raucous Resister
Duration: 2 min 55 s
Description: previously unreleased track from live recording of Bob on his 92nd birthday party at the Deer Head Inn. Recording by Kent Heckman, Red Rock Recording Studio, Saylorsburg, PA

Beautiful reminder of a true legend. Thanks for sharing!

Wonderful !!! I was there that night...FIlming the entire evening w/Bob & the other Guests !

LYRICS:

Way way back in my early twenties 
I could play bebop in 12 keys
I tried not mess up my life 
with tritone substitutions
One lonely night, had a wet dream that I’d 
be the next Kenny G#

Lately I’ve been feeling depressed 
And a bit unproductive 
almost took me half of this year
Writing lyrics to this song 
My thoughts they keep weighing me down 
That’s why my Twitter friends said 
||:Jesse make jazz:||

Why did I spend so much time in the shed?
Got me a Saturday at the Deer Head
Twelve people came that’s including the band
Playing for peanuts wasn’t the plan
The lumberman dragged me on tour for two weeks
Then came notably a decline in my own technique 


Throwback to a Thursday when I
Had barely reached thirty
I thought that I’d conquered my own
Personal Mountains
Chose a life with a 401 k
A fight with amnesia 

||:Jesse made jazz from his ass he made jazz:||

Jesse, make jazz

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previously unreleased track from live recording of Bob on his 92nd birthday party at the Deer Head Inn. Recording by Kent Heckman, Red Rock Recording Studio, Saylorsburg, PA

Bob Dorough's Birthday Song

Lyrics and vocals by Miranda Ray (US)
Music my Jesse Heckman (NO)

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LYRICS:

There was a boy from Pennsylvania 
They say he had a gift, but I gotta tell ya
This is a story of repression 
Think it's time we heard that plagal confession
*A when?*

Once upon a rhyme and rhythm
There was something uninformed about him 
Never seemed to have a real voice
didn’t think he had another choice
Decided he would hide behind the saxophone 
Oooooooo

The times when he don't play the blues
Didn't understand the social cues
He struggled hard to find the reason 
And so he blew his horn for mental pleasin'
Some kinda modal disposition 
Made him want to be a jazz musician 
*so what*

Diggin deep down to the core
Riffin on the chords, what the hell for?
Nothing else seemed to work
Otherwise he’d go berserk 
Decided he would hide behind the saxophone
Ooooooooo

*sax solo* 

Improvised a solo what a waste
Avoiding all the fears he should face
What if this tonal disguise 
Will never find a way to harmonize?
Decided he would hide behind the saxophone 
Ooooooooo

Bob Dorough's Birthday Song

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