This is a pure country, toe-tapping, honky-tonk bar song. I think it's a very cool story song about a guy who leaves a note for his brother telling him that he's got to go out and rescue his girlfriend who's being detained by a bunch of rowdies at a roadside bar and grill. Some friends of mine who had a rock band really liked this song and worked up a real hard rock version of it and it was interesting to watch them perform it in a club but I knew that that was not what this song was supposed to be. It’s more of an easy country shuffle, it could even be a good bluegrass song if a banjo was added to it but I never thought it was meant to be a rock song. But I guess like a lot of Bob Dylan songs, it can be interpreted in different ways. We had a lot of fun recording this song, it's a good jam and Terry came up with another fantastic guitar solo that really cooks and Jay added a perfect backbeat on the drum kit that moves the song along at a really good pace. It's very catchy. The lyrics are loaded with alliteration, especially in the second verse and even in the title. It’s a crowd pleaser.
lyrics
Gone To Get My Girlfriend
(Bill Naughton, Jr.)
c 2014 Biliolga Music (ASCAP)
-chorus
“I’ve gone to get my girlfriend, she got lost outside of town,
She can’t get away from some honky-tonk café,
She stopped in for directions and they said she had to stay,
Now there better be enough of them to beat this thirty-eight.”
My brother’s always been in trouble, Ma said he was born that way,
But we all got along good just the same,
He spent last year in prison, we all hoped he’d changed his style,
But I just found this note, and I’m afraid that he’s gone wild.
-repeat chorus-
No matter what they try to tell him, he will break that bar to bits,
‘Cause that’s the way he used to get his kicks,
I hope they haven’t hurt her ‘cause he’ll surely shoot that gun,
And if some fool tries to fight him, I’m afraid he’ll kill someone.
-repeat chorus, guitar solo, repeat chorus-
credits
from Songwriter, Volume 1 (15 songs),
released September 19, 2014
Bill Naughton, Jr.: acoustic guitar, vocals
Terry Miggins: electric guitar, guitar solo, bass
Jay Miggins: drums
Michael Arafeh: recording engineer and producer
Songwriter Bill Naughton, Jr. is a former Nashville radio disc jockey - WSIX and WSM-FM - with two15 track albums of studio
demos released to showcase his original material for recording artists, producers and label A&R reps in an effort to get his songs cut by other singers. All 30 tracks, produced by Michael Arafeh at the Coffeehouse in Middletown CT, can be downloaded FREE here on Bandcamp.com. ...more
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