
Date of issue: 19.04.2012
Song language: English
Hot Rod Hotel |
I’m a porter and a night clerk at the old Hot Rod Hotel |
I clean and scrub the lobby down and thirty one rooms as well |
I wax and shine their boots and shoes, I brush down their crinkeldy clothes |
I meet the buses and the trains and show you to your door |
Bell bottom pants brought two boys in at six fourteen last night |
Two girls checked in at ten otwo and I flipped on their light |
The lamrods wife looks in their doors and finds one terrible sight |
Those boys and girls got bawled up in their doors and rooms last night |
A bloody flood could never messed these rooms up any worse |
It looked like Moe had used this room to grease and breed a horse |
Old gum and hairs and sticky rags, old bottles on the floors |
Gobs of spit and condom rubbers on the windows, walls and doors |
The lammy tried to make me clean up the crappy mess |
Or else he’d fire me off my job and let me starve to death |
I laid aside my polish rag and downed my dusting pan |
And I’ve not seen the old Hot Rod nor that old town since then |
WORDS: Woody Guthrie (1949) — MUSIC: Billy Bragg (1996) |
JAY BENNETT: Farfisa organ, mandolin, electric guitar |
BILLY BRAGG: acoustic guitar, vocals |
KEN COOMER: drums |
JOHN STIRRATT: electric bass |
JEFF TWEEDY: acoustic guitar |
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