Lyric of the Week: GIMME A BEER
Hey Benny, what’ll it be?
– Gimme a beer.
Don’t call me Benny I’m from around here
I just been away for awhile so just gimme a beer
I been makin’ a livin’ dealin’ in junk
So now I’ll sit in the back and get real drunk
Well I love that Asbury Park rhythm’n’blues
When my blood is full of beer’n’booze
When Southside sings The Fever he blows me to bits
I think I fell asleep in a puddle of Schlitz
chorus
It’s all right if it’s all night
And when it’s all night it gets real tight
When it gets real tight it’s outta sight
And now it’s outta sight so gimme a beer
So DJ play those records DJ spin those discs
There’s some high voltage tunes so enter at your own risk
Big man blow that saxophone till the morning light
Squeeze the last lingering moment from the night
I feel so good I feel so fine
When me and my baby are high on cheap wine
When the bars close at five we’ll go out on a walk
Me and her watchin’ the sunrise from the boardwalk
repeat chorus
July’s here and it’s about time
To forget about the whole world and have a good time
Hey gang let’s forget all those college classes we took
Get the girls and the Coors and we’ll go on up to Sandy Hook
Hey crank up the box play that music loud
Let’s hear that old steel mill sound
They say it’s music for people with no direction in life
Maybe so but for now I’ll down another Miller High Life
repeat chorus
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This lyric was not based on any of my experiences visiting or living at the Jersey Shore, but rather on what I imagined, while living in Israel, hanging out at Jersey Shore bars must be like. The music is loosely based on Southside Johnny's cover of Solomon Burke's "Got to Get You Off of My Mind" mixed up with J. Geils "Till These Walls Come Tumbling Down." Never recorded or performed, but I might consider it for future (drunken) set lists if the mood strikes.