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Beatnik Bandits

from We're All Astronauts by Chris Conway

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9. Beatnik Bandits
1. Spinning out a coffee in an old department store.
Trying to save all the whales and stop all the wars.
Racing each other to the funniest line.
And hanging out at sundown drinking cheap wine.

chorus
We were the Beatnik Bandits
And we had style
We were the Beatnik Bandits
Don't touch your dial.
We were the Beatnik Bandits
We wrote our own rules
We were the kings of cool
And nobody fooled with the Bandits.

2. We got our name from a movie that gave us a buzz.
Truth is we didn't really know just what a beatnik was.
We weren't even bandits, we didn't steal or fight.
We just hung out together on a Saturday night.

3. We were kings of our dominion talking late into the night.
We always had an opinion and we always were right.
And all of the problems in the whole wide world.
Were solved int eh wink of an eye from the right girl.

chorus

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I've got a faded photograph in my hand.
I guess things didn't work out the way we planned.
Laughing and crazy, so care free.
What happened to you, what happened to me.
But there's stil a place in the back of my mind,
Where we're all still together and having a great time.
And it makes me feel happy, and a little bit blue.
Do you remember me, coz I remember you,
Because you were a Beatnik Bandit

4. Well we always had the music but we could hardly play.
But I was always Carlos, and my best friend was Stevie Ray.
One day we found all new kinds of jazz,
We didn't know what we were playing, but we just played it fast

5. Yes you could say we were a bohemian crowd.
The summers were long and the parties were loud.
Years flew past, we've gone our separate ways.
But I still raise a glass to the glory days.

chorus x2

We were the kings of cool.
And we wrote our own rules
And nobody fools
With the Bandits
With the Beatnik Bandits

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from We're All Astronauts, released April 1, 2018
Chris Conway - vocals, electric 9 string guitar, piano, keyboards, drum loops.

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Think David Crosby on a journey taking in Ireland, a jazz club, and Outer Space.

"Songs of Love & Peace & Outer Space" is his slogan and that sums it up well.

He has toured with ex-Monkees Peter Tork, played with members of Jethro Tull and Fairport Convention as well as Vikki Clayton, Martin Carthy, Sally Barker, Pete Morton, Cathy Lesurf, & Tommy Emmanuel and Talvin Singh. ... more

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