Amazing Dave - 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!