No Free Lunch Blues:
sample melody and bass line

(suggestion: start sleepy, slow, and swinging, and increase urgency each verse.)

1996.1.29                                             No Free Lunch Blues

                                                   Lyrics by Carl de Marcken
                                    (play in the spirit of Eric Clapton's CrossRoads Blues) 

Intro: Bass Guitar
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0. || (INSTRUMENTAL)                |                              |                              |                              |
1. ||-noon, monday mornin',      ma | wallet's nowhere to be found |                              |                          the |
2. ||-all tuesday mornin',  for the | faculty lunch to be over     |                              |                    when that |
3. ||-code wednesday mornin',needed | stock to buy lo and sell hi  |                              |                      Wolpert |
4. ||-up, thursday mornin',my cruel | stomach was_ making me balk  |                              |                       when I |
5. ||-in, friday mornin',  I hadn't | eaten a bite all_    week    |                              |                          see |
6. || (INSTRUMENTAL, more urgently--e.g., play bass quarters as two eighths)                      |                              |
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0. (INSTRUMENTAL)                |                              |                              |                              |
1.-foodtruck lady she said,  I'd |have to pickup off the ground.|                              |                    I got the |
2.-cruel_ brown door opend,they'd|left us  3_  sprigs of clover.|                              |                    I got the |
3.-said it was equally bad, that |nothin that I'd done would fly|                              |                    I got the |
4.-went into the playroom,     I |starved_ all_ thru the talk.  |                              |                    I got the |
5.-29 boxes of pizza,        all |bought by an an-chovies freak.|                              |                    I got the |
6. (INSTRUMENTAL)                |                              |                              |                              |
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0. (INSTRUMENTAL)                |                              |                              |                 1. It came  ||
1. cant-find-the-cash      cat-and-rat-hash                     |                              |                 2. I waited ||
               food-in-a-flash            NO-FREE-LUNCH BLUES.  |                              |                             ||
2. pullin-my-hair eating-my-chair aint-no-food-there NO-FREE-LUNCH-BLUES.                      |                 3. I wrote  ||
3. all-outa-joint cant-hit-the-point hermitian-adjoint NO-FREE-LUNCH BLUES.                    |                 4. I woke   ||
4. Rod-killed-the-snack off-tenure-track cant-catch-no-slack NO-FREE-LUNCH BLUES.              |                 5. I came   ||
5. whats-with-Isbell Stefanis-is-hell cant-take-GSL NO-FREE-LUNCH BLUES.                       |                             ||
6. (INSTRUMENTAL)                |                              |                              |                             ||
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