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Some people are infectiously positive and I can’t stand them… but I love them all the same.

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The Happy Song

She said “Baby, won’t you sing something happy now?
Because those blues that you play have a way of bringing me down
When you got so much that you can be thankful for
Like the fact you got two good legs.”

I said “Maybe you’re right come to think of it.
I got two good eyes to see that the world is full of shit.”
She said “That’s not what I meant for you to take a good thing
And twist it until it’s bent.”

“Why not try to imagine the world is one?
Where there is no more fighting. No more wars. We all just get along.”
I said “That sounds fine as long as they don’t play New Age Music
Because that shit just makes me sick.”

She said “Fuck you. You’re just a hopeless case.
I try to set the scene for you and you just trash the place.
But that tune you got going is pretty good listening.
Maybe you should stick to whistling.”

….

I said “Baby. I can’t change all the world.
To a unicorn puking rainbow poster on the wall of a teenage girl.
But I’m having myself a good time just sitting here with you.
Trying to make it rhyme.

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from Ghosts, released January 19, 2013

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J. P. Whipple (Barefoot John Whipple) Salt Lake City, Utah

J. P. Whipple is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has spent a life drifting across the country singing old time roots, blues, and country.

He is a founding member of the psychedelic band Tycoon Machete: tycoonmachete.bandcamp.com ... more

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