Holiday Skits 1986

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Lyrics for Lost Grad Student Blues:

LOST GRAD STUDENT BLUES (1986)
Dave Grinspoon guitar(s), vocals, most of the lyrics
Pat Hartigan harmonica, vocals

[Intro Instrumentals]
[Dave]
Woke up this morning to ride into the lab
My bike had a flat and I couldn't afford no cab
So I had to walk in, on my own two feet
and as I walked and crawled and gasped through the searing Tucson heat
[both]
I heard the sound of some miser from inside my head
It was the voice of my adviser and this is what he said:

Chorus 1:
You can scream and you can shout and you can moan and you can pout
Work late at night till your sanity's in doubt
but you ain't never, never, EVER...
Gonna get out

[Dave]
Well my girlfriend she done left me and my parents cut me off
[Pat]
My neighbors said they'd call the cops if I don't get rid of this cough
[Dave]
But I can't afford a doctor, cause my stipend is too low
[Pat]
Man I can't hide I got something inside that's just about ready to blow
[both]
If there were any survivors to warn new arrivers of what they had to go through
I wouldn't have come in the first place, because brother you know that it's true

Chorus 2:
You can scream and you can shout and you can moan and you can pout
Work late at night till your sanity's in doubt
Keep swimming upstream like some brainless spawning trout
but you ain't never, never, EVER...
Gonna get out

[Dave]
I spent two long lonely years groaning and sweating through classes
[Pat]
And six or seven more kissing scientific asses
[Dave]
I learned it's awful hot on Venus and Mars is freezing cold
[Pat]
And it's way too dry in Arizona where I feel I'm gonna grow old
[Dave]
I go to happy hour on Friday and you know I drink my share
But I ain't happy on Saturday in a lab where they just don't care

--Chorus 1--
[guitar solo]

I came into the lab it was 1963
Went up the stairwell and Kuiper said to me
'Boy, you can work all day and night and all throughout the year
But once you are in grad school you'll never get out of here'
Well, at least I know I can sleep in late and dress like a slob
But I have to doubt if I ever get out if I can even find a job

--Chorus 2--
[Outro]