Slack Key

by Flip & Zeke

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This is a song based on slack key guitar licks, about the plight of a musician whose partner won't play anything else. Featuring Flip Breskin on slack key guitar, Jack Aldrich on lap steel, and Zeke Hoskin on vocals.

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My lover is learning music from Hawaii
She practices fourteen hours every day
She will not participate in blues or old time
Or all those mainland tunes we used to play

Oh woe -- is -- me, Don Ho -- and -- she
Are making our jam sessions truly tryin'
When I sing -- a -- song, she won't -- play -- along
Unless I put in licks that sound Hawaiian

Hawaiian music moves so very slowly
When I sing up-tempo, she gets left behind
I guess I am gonna have to learn some slow songs
Or else I'm simply gonna lose my mind

Alo -- ha -- Oy -- vey, there's no joy
In singing songs that creep along so slowly
If they had -- a -- beat, they'd still -- sound -- sweet
But what the hell do I know? I'm a Haole

A little Hawaiian music is a fine thing
But a steady diet of it rots your soul
I'm going to get us tickets to Hawaii
Cause there, I hear, they just play rock and roll

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released March 2, 2019

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