The Lonely Baker - an original song by Peter Trappen

A song I wrote while snowed in one winter in Michigan USA. In a Dylan-esque style, the lyrics are stream of consciousness images and alliteration. My housemates Mickey and Dean helped a bit with the lyrics. After making toasted cheese sandwiches and setting fire to a tapestry by accident, we decided to write a song. The lyrics come from topical subjects in the local news that week. And this was the result...

Done on my new 12 string which is bringing me much needed inspiration during the ongoing lockdown / pandemic of 2020/21. I've lowered the strings to D to relieve tension on the neck and put a Capo on the 2nd fret to bring it up to standard E tuning.

:::LYRICS:::
THE LONELY BAKER
He was the lonely baker of Hollywood

A sunshine dealer, county seater
Otis Tortoise wrote a book about
Barking dogs and hollow log sleepers
Holy man’s mother’s weeping

Old Tom Renick told us of a shady lady named Waiting Katie
Instep shoeshine, elbow grease
And Old Mac Stevens getting even in the 3rd race
So say your grace

He was the lonely baker of Ha a-ha a-ha Hollywood
The liars and the fakers
Knew they had it good, had it good

Desperado’s dirty dealing
a wicker basket case he’s weaving
Cadillac’s and Russian guns
Insight set on having fun
A 2 step slide queen over by the phone booth

They crossed the bridge before they saw
The blood in the back of a rented Dodge
When Lucky Lucy lost her dog and
Painted pictures in the fog
The tapestries are burning on the wall
and that ain't all...

He was the lonely baker of Ha a-ha a-ha Hollywood
The liars and the fakers
Knew they had a-ha a-ha had it good,
so what did he do?
Well I ask you people what would you do?
If you were in his shoes?

c) 2021 p. trappen umpteen music bmi