catalog #SVM-O-V-0009
song: Jingle Blues
artist: Black Bar Prophecy
writer(s): Detrick, Dana Marie (ASCAP); Clark, Paul Martin (ASCAP)
publisher: Serious Vanity Music (ASCAP)
ASCAP Title Code: 401211354
album: Too Cool for the Yule
year: 2008
type: Original, Vocal
gender: Male and Female Duet
length: 3:47
tempo:
genre: country, alternative country, holiday
sounds like: She and Him, Jenny Lewis, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn
keywords: fun, cartoon, ghosts, story, graveyard, holiday, Christmas, Christmas Eve, moral song, twang, twangy
possible usage: cue for holiday film, holiday commercial, holiday podcast
mood: bouncy, bluesy, twangy, sassy
points of note:
lyric:
You’ve been hangin’ out in cemeteries
Knockin’ over headstones just for fun
You didn’t know you’d conjure up
The ghost of Xmas has been here before
And now I’m gonna show you what you’ve done
I’ve been hangin’ out in cemeteries
It’s the only place I feel understood
I may let my temper get the best of me now and then
But deep down in the cold heart there’s some good
The Jingle Blues is the life I choose
Leaves your heart so empty you won’t believe
The Jingle Blues is the way to lose
We’re the saddest souls in town this Christmas Eve
Better get to diggin’ in your heart now
Finding that one speck of human love
Cuz if you are like me you’ll raise a glass you cannot see
To toast the lucky stiffs who walk above
For those lucky stiffs who walk above now
To raise a glass to them can never be
That tiny spark of good is but reflection off cold ice
That wraps the hardest heart you’ll ever see
The Jingle Blues is the life I choose
Leaves your heart so empty you won’t believe
The Jingle Blues is the way to lose
We’re the saddest souls in town this Christmas Eve
As I go back to my eternal slumber
I leave but a few parting words of wise
Try to be a better kind of rambling hooligan
Acknowledge all your gifts as they arise
As I see you back to your eternal slumber
I can’t promise to be more than I am
It can’t be said that any of my gifts do I despise
But for all that I’m only a man
