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(ex-Scrybe here :wink: )]]> Sunday Songwriters Group NewYorkSkiffle https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y14-w2-21st-century-blues-2/#post-386643 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y14-w2-21st-century-blues-2/#post-386624 Mon, 16 Nov 2015 09:28:16 +0000
It's brutal, says a lot in a short sharp way. So long as it scans ok you'll be fine.

Why not add the "There's no escape from the poverty" line as a final line? It should fit in over the last 4 bars of a blues quite nicely.]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Alan Green https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y14-w2-21st-century-blues-2/#post-386624 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y14-w2-21st-century-blues-2/#post-386623 Sun, 15 Nov 2015 23:17:22 +0000
:-) :-) :-)

Vic]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y14-w2-21st-century-blues-2/#post-386623 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y14-w2-21st-century-blues-2/#post-46432 Sun, 15 Nov 2015 23:13:32 +0000
21st Century Blues.

Don't have broadband, can't afford a landline,
Couldn't be worse off if I stood on a landmine,
Can't afford the rent because the bedroom tax,
Is too much to pay, the cards are stacked,
In favour of the rich and against the poor,
Always been that way, those who have want more!

Well they cut tax credits for working families,
There's no escape from the poverty squeeze,
Can't afford bus fares to the library,
To search for jobs online where the internet's free,
Benefits suspended, null and void,
One less statistic on the roll of the unemployed.

So you scrimp and scrape and scrounge to get by,
Ain't got no money, can't work out why,
Concil tax and housing benefits are gone,
You're getting deeper in debt as you go along,
You're fed a constant diet of lies without truth,
Welcome to the 21st Century Blues!

:-) :-) :-)

Vic







There's no escape, from the poverty]]> Sunday Songwriters Group Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y14-w2-21st-century-blues-2/#post-46432