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Uncle (as far as you know) Guy Clark got this one right, sorta - L.A. traffic's only bad if you aren't from Chicago. Here’s to you ol’ Skinny Dennis; most of our favorite songs are built on the backs of un- or under-credited jobbing musicians. And somehow, impossibly, another song with a reference to food, which is generally not allowed, but Uncle (to the best of your knowledge) Clark gets a pass.

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Pack up all your dishes
Make note of all good wishes
Say goodbye to the landlord for me
That son-a-bitch has always bored me

Throw out them LA papers
And that moldy box of vanilla wafers
Adios to all this concrete
Gonna get me some dirt road back street

If I can just get off of this LA freeway
Without getting killed or caught
I'd be down that road in a cloud of smoke
For some land that I ain't bought-bought-bought

Here's to you old skinny Dennis
Only one I think I will miss
I can hear that old bass singing
Sweet and low like a gift you're bringin'

Play it for me just one more time now
Got to give it all we can now
I believe everything your saying
Just keep on, keep on playing

And you put the pink card in the mailbox
Leave the key in the old front door lock
They will find it likely as not
I'm sure there's something we have forgot

Oh Susanna, don't you cry, babe
Love's a gift that's surely handmade
We've got something to believe in
Don't you think it's time we're leavin’

Pack up all your dishes
Make note of all good wishes
Say goodbye to the landlord for me
That son of a bitch has always bored me

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from Lose Your Illusion I (For L​.​A​.​), released October 7, 2022
Written by Guy Clark

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OTHERPEACE Chicago, Illinois

AKA Matt Clark. Singer & songwriter. Guitar player for White/Light and Pinebender. Ex-Joan of Arc and Love of Everything. Musical contributor to This American Life.

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