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The Barber Of Shibuya

from How To Be A Cannonball by Alex McMurray

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Johnny's feeling lucky that's the sailor way
He's been leaking money
Yeah he pisses it away
He bought himself a human went out on a spree
Woke up in the gutter
That's the sailor way to be
Don't you get lost my friends in a foreign land
for the Barber of Shibuya has got a razor for a hand

For playing on his jew's harp they threw him off the train
He couldn't find no taxi
so he wandered in the rain
The girl who eats Kimono played a strange guitar
Johnny thought he'd sleep there and dream of Zanzibar
Don't you get lost my friends in a foreign land
for the Barber of Shibuya has got a razor for a hand

The Barber of Shibuya the Bourbon of Brunei
nightly trolls for sleeping souls
and then you say goodbye

Johnny he got shanghaied found a scab upon his neck
woke up in the scuppers
of a Chinese wreck
He said, "I ain't no sailor I never seen the horn"
The captain threw him overboard
where he sleeps forevermore
Don't you get lost my friends in a foreign land
for the Barber of Shibuya has got a razor for a hand

credits

from How To Be A Cannonball, released April 21, 2009
AM--guitar & vocals
Carlo Nuccio--drums
Matt Perrine--bass
Anthony Cuccia--percussion
Brian Coogan--organ & keys

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Alex McMurray New Orleans, Louisiana

I'm a New Orleans based singer songwriter type. I play in a bunch of bands. I make recordings sometimes. Some of them are here. Thanks for supporting my work. Drop me a line--I'd love to hear from you.

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