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This is a song that started in Nashville, just after the city had spit us out and right when we thought it might want us back again. We changed our minds, anyway, and headed north, where after a series of unfortunate shows in Vermont, we found ourselves cooped up and sad at an adult campground in Maine. There, we tried to remember why it is we sing and what we sing about and not to worry about how successful everyone else seemed to be while we were stuck playing to a mumbling drunk in a noisy bar.

One part venting, one part fun, one part autobiography, we played this song when it was finished to a fellow songwriter, who cringed at the memory of her old times touring, as well. That's when we knew the song was true.

"Talking Singing in a Bar" is the polite middle finger to those who won't even know we were there.

Written and performed by The Rough & Tumble
Copyright Penny Jar Publishing 2017

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Years back there was a murder on music row
Now we got ourselves a network TV show
Songwriters can't pay their rent
And you can watch it on your TV set or HULU video

Hey Bartender!
A whiskey neat!
Pass around the tip jar 'cause we got no guarantee!

The bat tower is looking out at us tonight
With promise of change under Broadway's lights-
Mother Church please let us in,
We promise you our next of kin to sing on your radio show

Hey Bartender!
A vodka please!
Someone's got a bachelor party on table 23!
Hey Bartender!
One rum, please!
I got no happy birthdays left to sing inside of me!

Got ourselves a wildcard in the front row,
Someone to the left of stage has got a new iPhone.
No matter what ESPN team that we seem to be up against again,
We're always 5 and oh, oh, oh, oh....we're not winning though.

Hey Bartender...Tequila please.
Hey Bartender...A gin martini.
Hey Bartender...a cosmopolitan.
Hey Bartender...a 7 and 7.
Hey Bartender...I'll drink your Bud Light Lime.
Hey Bartender...your sourest white wine.
Hey Bartender...I'll drink up your bottom shelf.
Hey Bartender... we could use a little help.
Hey Bartender... a little something please.
Whatever you've slung for the lowest wrung
won't you sling one more for me.

Whatever you've slung for the lowest wrung
won't you sling one more for me...and I'll sing one more for me.

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from Odds and Ends For the End of the World, released December 20, 2016
Recorded by Jesse Sprinkle at Bluebrick Recording Co. Avon, NY
Dog sitting by Amos Sprinkle

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The Rough & Tumble Haverhill, New Hampshire

The Rough & Tumble are a dumpster-folk/thriftstore Americana band consisting of Mallory Graham and Scott Tyler. Only This Far, their latest full length record is out May 12, 2023. "The bottom line is these are just quality songs, well written, well played, well sung and arranged, and a pleasure from start to end."- AmericanaUK ... more

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