No Guts No Glory: I'll be approaching "Sonny and Red" about recording this tailor-penned duet
Welcome to the No Guts No Glory edition of Lyric Today/Hear it Tomorrow. The following is a duet I penned this morning, especially for Sonny Langley and Red Simpson, a couple of local Bakersfield Sound legends.
Whether they agree to record it or not, is their business, and they should feel no obligation to record it. Who am I to even approach them with such a song? I'm not worthy to step on the same Bakersfield Sound ground. So why would I dare to be so foolish?
No Guts, no Glory, that's why. Here's my duet for two of the Bakersfield Sound's last men standing.
Sonny and Red
words and music by Dr BLT copyright 2008
we're a couple of survivors
survivors of a bygone day
we're a couple of survivors
Trout's is where you'll hear us sing and play
we got together for a new song
just to sing about the good old days
but we're making every day a new day
and you'll find that we are here to stay
chorus:
Sonny and Red
together my friend
we're makin' brand new history
the Bakersfield Sound
will surely come around
come around again and again
we're a couple country singers
Kern is the county we come from
we're a couple guitar pickers
we hang out here
there's nowhere else to run
everybody's got a story
everybody's got a song to sing
Sonny and Red
we heard just what you said
what you we request
is what we're here to bring
we don't care
just where you come from
we don't care
no matter where you've been
you're all welcome
to enter the doors
come and join us in the song we sing
we're a couple of survivors
I'm Sonny
and my name is Red
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