
Spencer Norris
Bad Lede Blues
This blog post is brought to you in the style of the Mississippi Delta Blues, with accompanying I-IV-V chord changes and a swung 4/4 rhythm.
Got the bad lede blues
Yeah, got them bad lede blues
My writing's in the gutter
Gotta figure out what to do
Yeah, it's a bad lede
Yeah I tell ya it's a bad lede
Yeah, gotta go fix it
Or our audience won't want to read
Yeah baby, there's no nut graf
Yeah, I tell you, I forgot my nut graf
And it's a pretty bad gaffe
But I tell ya, you just gotta laugh
What can I say?
Don't mean to be crude
But they say stay away from that down-n'-out dude
Yeah, I hear he's contagious
And he's got a case of them bad lede blues
Maybe I ought not to worry
Just focus on writing better stories
But I know it in my core
I know my writing can be a little more
So I'll just chase these bad lede blues away
Get back on the beat another day
More to write and less to say
Yeah I tell you, it's just that way
Well, that's the end of that sonic nightmare. Back to the beat.