Todd Snider - The Ballad of the Devil's Backbone Tavern (Live: Return of the Storyteller)
If you dig what you do they will never get you down... ✌️💜🅰️ TS talks about becoming a troubadour instead of an act, and how he sings "The Ballad of the Devil's Backbone Tavern" as a reminder that he chose the job because he loves it.
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Live: Return of the Storyteller (9/23/22)
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LYRICS
Old Miss Virgy tended bar at this shack out in the hills
It never made her no money boys but paid of all her bills
Now she must have been 80 years old but her heart was warm and her beer was cold
She gave away more than she ever sold, she's smiling all the time
I used to sing off in the corner every Friday night
To a loud crowd of cowboys, bikers and bar room fights
They were drinking beer, carrying on, not a one of them listening to one of my songs
But old Miss Virgy sang along, she said she knew 'em all by heart
And then one night after closing she poured me a beer
She said: 'Come on over and sit down you little shit, I got something you need to hear'
She said: 'Life ain't easy getting through everybody's gonna make things tough on you'
'But I can tell you right now if you dig what you do, they will never get you down'
She said life's too short to worry, life's too long to wait
Too short not to love everybody, life's too long to hate
I meet a lot of men who haggle and finagle all the time
Trying to save a nickel or make a dime
Not me, no sireee, I ain't got the time
Now I ain't seen Ol' Virgy in must have been about ten years
I've been bumming around this country singing songs for tips and beers
Now the nights are long, the driving's tough
Hotels stink and the pay sucks
But I can't dig what I do enough, so it never gets me down
I say life's too short to worry, life's too long to wait
Too short not to love everybody, life's too long to hate
I meet a lot of men who haggle and finagle all the time
Trying to save a nickel or make a dime
Not me, no sireee, I ain't got the time
ABOUT TODD SNIDER
Troubadour, meaning an itinerant singer of songs, is a word that dates back centuries, and comes from the French verb “trouver,” which is to find. These musical wanderers would find and invent stories humorous and intellectual, romantic and earthy, performing them as they went from town to town. Troubadour is also the word that acclaimed musician-raconteur Todd Snider leans on to describe himself and his latest release, Live: Return of the Storyteller.
“I think my first thought with this record was I wanted to remind people really quickly that I’m a troubadour,” says Snider. “Playing live is the only chance for me to show, ‘This is what I really do.’ I’ve never thought of myself as a recording artist. I’m someone who gets over by traveling around, telling stories, making up new songs and singing them alone on stage.”
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