“King Barlow”
Lyrics and Music by Chet Nichols
Instrumentation & vocals by Chet Nichols
Produced by Chet Nichols
Recorded "LIVE" at Cowntown Ballroom, Kansas City, MO
Re-Digitization Production Produced and Mastered by Stephen Barncard at House Of Cubes in Sebastopol, CA USA
Copyright 1969/2016
by Chet Nichols (ASCAP) & Magic Garage Music (ASCAP)
PO Box 2398, Northbrook, IL 60065
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Lyrics
“King Barlow”
Music and Lyric by Chet Nichols (ASCAP)
Copyright 1972/2023 by Chester Nichols, Jr (ASCAP) & Magic Garage Music : Publisher (ASCAP)
URL: http://www.chetnichols.net
Email: chet@chetnichols.net
Email: MagicGarageMusic@protonmail.com
Email: ChetNichols@me.com
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Verse 1
King Barlow built a highway
To connect his kingdom all
There, too, live an outlaw
Aimed toward Barlow’s fall
No one likes a good guy
We all love the bad
Robin Hood, Captain Kidd
Good but they were bad
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Verse 2
Now Barlow was a-losing
To the outlaw and his highwayers
‘Cause the laws that they lived by
Were the laws made by him
Who is the one
His thorn is his tease
Yet, they peacefully beat him
To his death then to his knees
I’m gonna play for him
I’m gonna play for you
Gonna play for Richard Nixon
Gonna play for Spiro, too
Verse 3
Now Barlow sat in his tower
Till the candles had burnt low
And wondered if he was the outlaw
Where would he go?
And so he became the outlaw
And began to see its reason
Call it liberal
Call it change
Never call it treason
No, no
(Harmonica solo)
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