The Man Who Could Have Played Bass For Shanana by Darrell Scott
The Man Who Could Have Played Bass For Shanana lyrics
I walked into the lounge of the Windsor Arms Hotel
Where a band was playing Fifties songs
The ones we know so well
And they played just like the record
Not a note was out of place
Then they finished with "Goodnight Sweetheart"
By the guy who played the bass
As he walked by the table I offered him a beer
Said I was a player too
I had been for many years
And we talked about the business
All the years out on the road
How forever sweet sixteen
Was such a heluva heavy load
And he said, "Ya know I could have made it once
If I�d have listened to a friend
He had set up this audition
With a fifties group back when
But it was 1967 and I had dreams of moving on
The man who could�ve played bass for Shanana
Shanana, Shanana
He said, "I see them on the TV shows
Every now and again and I see my buddy playing
The saxophone the way he did back then
Oh we used to play the circuit
Any dive that had the pay
But we�d have done it all for nothing
Just to get a chance to play"
He said, "I talk to my family on every Sunday night
And I tell �em where I�m working next
And how the band is getting tight
And my children always ask me
How much longer I�ll be gone"
The man who could�ve played bass for Shanana
Shanana, Shanana
Well, we all have our stories
How we try but can�t forget
And how we sit in contemplation
And we lick our own regret
There�s the one we could've married
There�s the job we could've had
There�s the winning run we could've hit
If we had a more loving dad
And there�s the house we could�ve bought
When the prices weren�t so high
And there�s the loving words we could�ve said
Before that loved one died
There�s the road we could�ve traveled
There�s the one we traveled on and on and on
And there�s the man who could�ve played bass for Shanana
Shanana, Shanana, Shanana
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