Topic: Barber shop Blues
I actually wrote this song nearly 50 yrs ago when I was in an electric blues rock trio in the UK called Firkles Purple Onion .
Its based on a bad experience I had at a local hairdressers .Back in the day I had hair like Ian Gillan from Deep Purple but I had to have it cut when I took a job in the motor trade ,eventually it grew back and I became the cave man that I still am today .
I dug the song out to do at an event this coming week end as a new hairdressers shop is opening close by and I told her I'd play it for her .
Hope you like it it s an acoustic number called
BARBER SHOP BLUES
D A D
Well my head is cold and my ears are red
D A D
I really wish that I was dead
D A D
it was a mistake and I'm so blue
D A D
my hair has gone and my beard has too
G A D
Oh lord I've got the barber shop blues
D7
Oh yeah
G A D
Oh lord I've got the barber shop blues
D A D
Well first he sat me in the chair
D A D
then he cut off all my hair
D A D
when he'd finished he said that's swell
D A D
think I take that beard as well
G A D
Oh lord I've got the barber shop blues
D7
Oh yeah
G A D
Oh lord I've got the barber shop blues
D A D
Well I looked in the mirror and began to swear
D A D
I tied the barber into the chair
D A D
I cut off every hair on his head
D A D
and when I'd finished he sadly said
G A D
Oh lord I've got the barber shop blues
D7
Oh yeah
G A D
Oh lord I've got the barber shop blues
G A D
The barber had the barber shop blues