2025 Competition Entry:

Sitting Here Drinking Beer by Bob Johns

Genre

Country

Artist

Co-writer(s)

no

Performer(s)

I performed and recorded it myself.

Description

No

Bio

Bob Johns began his performing career in the nineteen-sixties, mainly in the folk music genre. Following those earlier years, Bob took time off from music, only to return in the late nineteen-eighties as a member of of a popular local trio specializing in “good-time” music in pubs and clubs. In the early two-thousands Bob began concentrating on a genre that had long interested him, as a member of a bluegrass band, first on bass, and later on guitar. After seventeen enjoyable years with bluegrass, Bob slowed down and concentrated on solo performances. At the same time, Bob organizes and promotes an annual rockabilly festival, and annual bluegrass festival, and helps with the organization of an annual blues festival and a country music festival. Bob enjoys using his home studio to write and record music.

Lyrics

Sitting Here, Drinking Beer

I’m sitting here, drinking beer, and I ain’t missing you
You went away and left me, you thought that I’d be blue
But I’ve found the way to feel okay, the cure for how I feel
I’m at this bar, a-drinking beer, my lonely heart to heal

Chorus:
Yes, our old house was lonesome, no-one else was here
But I found the way to feel okay, the answer’s in this beer
And if I could see you just once more, if you stepped through the door
Then maybe this old house would not be lonesome any more

Have you ever seen a lonely place, a house that’s so forlorn
A place with just one lonesome man, a heart that has been torn
But if I could see you just once more, if you stepped through the door
Then maybe this old house would not be lonesome any more

Chorus:
Yes, our old house was lonesome, no-one else was here
But I found the way to feel okay, the answer’s in this beer
But if I could see you just once more, if you stepped through the door
Then maybe this old house would not be lonesome any more
Yes, maybe this old house would not be lonesome any more

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