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Diggin'

length: 5:07 minutes
disk: Cowboy Bebop OST: "Future Blues"
music by: Yoko Kanno
vocals: Steve Conte
musicians: The Seatbelts, guitar - Kiyoshi Tuchiya
info: Steve Conte singing psuedo-country music. It's funny, I never recognized that it was Steve Conte singing here. Anyway, it's not a bad song. . . it's kind of funny, actually. It's just not the kind of thing I would jam to on a regular basis. I think I would like the song a lot more if they had gotten a real country artist to sing it. Having George Strait record it, for example, would have been pretty cool. I mean, Y.K. took all the effort to go to New York to record some of those bebop jazz pieces (Gateway, N.Y. Rush, Odd Ones), and she even went to Paris for a couple of the songs (The EGG and I, ELM), couldn't she have made a little side trip to Texas to record a real country singer? (and to write the lyrics as well) Ah well, it's really a minor complaint.
sessions: Knockin' On Heaven's Door
lyrics: by Tim Jensen

You know my daddy dug gates for his whole life
And he never knew nothing more
Yeah and his daddy done the dig like his old man
Who had dug before the war
And though she couldn't have known till I was born
My poor mama God rest her soul
Like them I come out diggin'

Well I was layin' out wire on number 9
Now when she come down to earth
And she was talkin' real loud
All about she was gonna save the universe
I went and snuck a lil' peek in her blue eyes
And words just aren't enough
She had me off and runnin'

Could it be that I got bored and lonely
Could it be that I'm just dumb and horny
Could it be that Lady Luck has smiled herself on me

She wore rattlesnake boots, a sassy mood
She had me laughin' in my tears
The most beautiful thing, so young and sweet
A little green behind the ears
She took me higher then I ever been
Lordy what have I been missin'
Now she is all I'm diggin'

Could it be that I got bored and lonely
Could it be that I'm just dumb and horny
Could it be that Lady Luck has smiled herself on me

She's smilin' down on me, yeah

Come a little closer
Let me show you how it could be
Spacy little cowgirl
Come a little closer to me
Spacy little cowgirl