Green Grow the Rashes And Other Stories
“Despite the fact that winter still held a tight grip in Newfoundland, the city of St. John’s was alive and kicking. We were set up in a bar just off George Street, and the place was packed with drinkers, dancers, drunks and those heading that way fast.
Booze flowed, we played ever-faster, and everyone was having a high old time.
And yet… I felt strangely dissociated from the whole thing. Even the old songs failed to stir me the way they used to. Twenty years of doing the same thing every day wi...ll do that to you, whether it be sitting at a desk, driving a bus… or singing in a bar. It was taking more and more booze to oil my gears every night. If Johnny and Dave had noticed, they had kept quiet about it. But that night in St. John’s proved to be a turning point.
It started well enough as I made it through Flowers of the Forest and John Barleycorn, but less than an hour into the gig the whisky I’d been knocking down kicked in.
Johnny started the fiddle intro to Green Grow the Rashes, Dave came in right on cue on the squeeze-box… and I fumbled the ball, being a full beat late on the first guitar chord.MoreLess
Booze flowed, we played ever-faster, and everyone was having a high old time.
And yet… I felt strangely dissociated from the whole thing. Even the old songs failed to stir me the way they used to. Twenty years of doing the same thing every day wi...ll do that to you, whether it be sitting at a desk, driving a bus… or singing in a bar. It was taking more and more booze to oil my gears every night. If Johnny and Dave had noticed, they had kept quiet about it. But that night in St. John’s proved to be a turning point.
It started well enough as I made it through Flowers of the Forest and John Barleycorn, but less than an hour into the gig the whisky I’d been knocking down kicked in.
Johnny started the fiddle intro to Green Grow the Rashes, Dave came in right on cue on the squeeze-box… and I fumbled the ball, being a full beat late on the first guitar chord.MoreLess
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