about
this is a companion track to another jack kerouac track on this album. slightly different remembrance...so we have included both versions...as a sort of bonus (depending entirely how you view the idea...
lyrics
I got the Jack Kerouac Blues
Back into 1962
Jack Kerouac got
a fat royalty cheque
for sales of his novel
‘On The Road'
So he went & bought
a Red Pontiac
& he went out on a moonlit drive
into the country side,
& he found himself
in a small small town
right in front of my house
He said ‘Hi! I’m Jack!
I started the Beat Generation.
& I said "Well,
what is that?"
& He said "It's The beat
it’s the Beat."
"It's the Beat like when
you're down, it's beat
when you are Beat. It's
the beat beat beat
of the feet of the
the People on the street
it’s the beat
it's the beat
it's the beat’’
I got the Jack Kerouac Blues
I got the Black Kerouac Blues
And Jack said, "You
can Navigate, My Man,
I’m looking for action
in this small town.
I want to find where
the Ladies are; it's the beat,
it's the beat."
And I said, "Well,
"it’s a Sunday Jack!
& everybody'll be at Church."
& he said, “Cool, see Chicks Dig Church!
& I dig chicks, that's the beat."
I got the Jack Kerouac blues
I got the Jack Kerouac blues
Jack drove up the hill
at the edge of town
towards the Catholic Church,
And every time we saw some
pretty girls it's
"Hey girls"
& he’d slow right down
"what you doin'?"
Dion was singing 'bout
going round the world
& kissing lots a pretty girls.
& Jack said, "It’s the beat
of the People on the Street,
it's the beat, it's the beat.'
I got the Jack Kerouac Blues
I said "Jack you makin' it very hard
you're makin' it hard for me.
I gotta live in this little town,
& you'll just drive away.
And Jack said "It’s the beat."
“& this small town gonna
bring you down,
you gotta get away,
Let The Beat take you.
Let The Beat make you.
The Beat carry you away."
& I said, "Jack you are makin' it hard for me.
I'm just a country child.
I'm just only 12 years old,
& I don’t know what the beat is."
& Jack said, "It’s the beat, My Man.
it’s the beat it's the beat.
It's the beat beat beat of
the people on the street, that’s the beat.
That's the beat.
LIKE THE BEAT OF YOUR HEART
credits
from
a dirty blue,
track released July 31, 2017
colin wrote the song and tady sings the song and trave with travenworld arranged the music, and the whole crew produced the song
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