Name: Beans And Beer
Duration: 3 min 2 s
Channel: Bob Leslie
Description: "Beans And Beer" is a song by Bob Leslie. An encouraging message to all corrupt politicians and financiers who might find themselves in trouble: "Like beans and beer, you'll come back again"

Beans And Beer

Bob Leslie

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An encouraging message to all corrupt politicians and financiers who might find themselves in trouble: "Like beans and beer, you'll come back again"

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Bob Leslie

Multi-talented Scottish singer-songwriter performs his own take on Americana. Original tunes with beautiful guitar work: laugh with Her Father Called Me Franken

Bob Leslie is the unknown soldier of the Scottish songwriting scene. Out of full-time professional action for fifteen years (due to family commitments), he never stopped writing and has recently returned with a 12-song CD of self-penned Americana with a touch of Tom Waits about it. In A Different World (release August 2010) employs top musical talent from the Central Scotland scene: Bernadette Collier & Alice Leslie - backing vox; Fraser Speirs - harmonica; Jim Keilt - lead guitar, Alex Mack - banjo, mandolin, and lead guitar; Craig Nelson - alto sax; and Carl Esprit Bridgeman - bass guitar. Apple, Chrysalis Records, and the Kinks' managers showed interest in Bob's early work and his later songs have elicited high commendation from the the prestigious Billboard Song Contest. Top players Bob has worked with include: Andy Hamilton (sax player for multi-million-selling Canadian songwriter Corey Hart) Chris Glen and Ted McKenna (bass and drums, respectively, with the Sensational Alex Harvey Band) Colin Bass (bass player of seminal prog-rockers Camel) Dave Vasco (guitarist for Warner Brothers artists Clancy) Fraser Speirs (harmonica maestro with Paolo Nutini and Scots blues legend Tam White) Jim Keilt (virtuoso lead guitarist with John Otway and the London production of Tommy - the Musical) Kathy O'Donoghue (vocalist with, amongst others, Roger Chapman and Hank Wangford) Zeke Manyika (drummer for Scots chart-toppers Orange Juice)

Song Info

Genre

Country • Alternative Country

Charts

#3,797 today Peak #109

#500 in subgenre Peak #20

Author

Bob Leslie

Rights

2010

Uploaded

July 04, 2010

Track Files

MP3

MP3 2.8 MB • 128 kbps • 3:02

Story behind the song

I've always tended to view most politicians as big bags of gas and what gives you gas?

Lyrics

Seek not for whom the bell tolls
Just slip the damn bellringer a drink
And hope that he'll forget to call your name
Get yourself a good plea bargain
And make sure it ain't a hard one so, 
Like beans and beer, you'll come back again

Though your hand's in the till, and your snout's in the swill
And you're sowing wild oats in your neighbour's field
If you've got the goods on your dishonourable friends
When you're in need, they'll be friends indeed
You'll spring back up just like a weed
Like beans and beer, you'll come back again
My country, 'tis of thee that bought it
Land of "hope we don't get caught" it's
Palms with greasy linings, rainbow's ends
And if your ratings start to drag
Start a war, wear a flag
Like beans and beer, you'll come back again

If it looks like a duck and it walks like a duck
And it quacks like a duck and it acts like a duck
Well, only you would tell me it's a hen
Though some shout "crook" over what you took
Just wait by the oven till your books have cooked
Like beans and beer, you'll come back again

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