Hotel Albert

from Hotel Albert by Joe Flood

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Words and music by Joe Flood and Howie Wyeth
Jungle Curry Music, BMI
Administered by Bug Music Nashville

lyrics

it's a new world i
It's a different town
Old lions and old buildings
Have both tumbled down
But with the echo of an organ
At four a.m.
My thoughts and I begin to turn
A smiling mouth with a gold tooth missing
Is right by ear saying, "Listen, man, listen!"
And the tune that I'm hearing
Here in my head
Is one I know Albert must have heard
Now were you named for it
Or was it named for you?
Hotel Albert
We're going to give you your due

Hotel Albert is twenty stories high
Tips his hat and he's scraping the sky
Just can't keep himself from feeling proud
Of the music he's been spreading around

Hotel Albert lost his address
They put him out but he's still looking his best
Had eighty-eight keys in a room with a view
But now he's striding down the avenue

Hotel Albert ain't got hte blues
He's foudn a new home in his dancing shoes
His eyes like windows on the world at his feet
Out walking that same old beat

Hotel Albert is heading uptown
Picking 'em up and he's putting 'em down
Now if you're going to imitate him
You'd better syncopate him
And his Hotel Albert Blues

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from Hotel Albert, released June 6, 1998
Jeff Berman, drums and vibes; Andres Villamil, bass; Howie Wyeth, piano;
Vitti Gorey, tenor saxophone; Joe Hrbek, alto saxophone; Jim Leff, trombone; Joe Flood, guitar and vocal

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Joe Flood New Haven, Connecticut

Joe Flood is a songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist who has performed, written, and recorded with many of the great names in American roots music, among them The Band, Blues Traveler, Dr. John, Bottle Rockets, Laura Cantrell, Eric Andersen, Happy and Artie Traum, Jim Weider, Eric "Roscoe" Ambel, Jono Manson, and the list goes on! Please visit www.joefloodmusic.com for more information. ... more

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