Doublewide Blues by Todd Snider
Doublewide Blues by Todd Snider

Doublewide Blues

Todd Snider * Track #14 On Viva Satellite

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Doublewide Blues by Todd Snider

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Todd Snider
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Snider observes his surroundings in this song, likening the trailer park community and its inherent drama to a soap opera of sorts.

He shows both the downside of living poor in the trailer park atmosphere, as well as finding a simple freedom in such a lifestyle.

Doublewide Blues Lyrics

[Chorus]
Doublewide blues
I got the blues doublewide

[Verse 1]
V-neck t-shirt with a mustard stain
Rollin' up a hose outside in the rain
He's been my neighbor since 'bout '79
'Course he was in prison most of that time
Ever since then he just ain't been right
His old lady works days and they fight most nights
Laid off and blown off, pissed off on booze
Doublewide blues

[Verse 2]
Metallica song blastin' from three trailers down
It's them cut-off t-shirt and numchuck kids comin' around
Tonight they'll get drunk, try to get laid
End up in a fight out behind some arcade
You know one of them little shits broke my window last spring?
I told his Momma, and she didn't do anything
She works two jobs, the boy runs loose
Doublewide blues

[Chorus]
Doublewide blues
I got the blues doublewide

[Verse 3]
My buddy Jimmy, his trailer's cool
He got him a deck with one of them blue plastic pools
He works in construction, builds spec homes
His woman left him though, so now he's down there alone
My friend Anita loves him, he don't know
So busy chasin' my neighbor's wife, Flo
Soap opera heaven, without all the clues
Doublewide blues

[Chorus]
Doublewide blues
I got the blues doublewide

[Verse 4]
Wild Bill, the manager, he keeps to himself
The war took his smile like them pills took his health
He's too old to run around with the Klan anymore
Still got a Confederate flag hangin' up outside his door
I sit here watchin' all this nothin' go on
I don't get out much since O.J.'s been on
Sometimes it's nice havin' nothin' to lose
'Cept them doublewide blues

[Chorus]
Doublewide blues
I got the blues doublewide
Doublewide blues
I got the blues doublewide

[Outro]
Take me home, boys
Think I'm drunk
Yep

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