Nevada Bob's Bad Movie Blues

Nevada Bob Gordon in Minneapolis. Photos by Gary Firstenberg

Nevada Bob has been making progress on his memoirs. His book 50 Years with the Wrong Woman is slated for release in the second quarter of 2022. I will keep you posted.

Bob has also been recording in Nashville these past couple years. If you may recall, Bob Dylan recorded several albums there, and now Nevada Bob has done the same. For both Bob and Nevada Bob, the session musicians were superb. And for each, one of the players was the much heralded Charlie McCoy.

After completing Long Train To Nowhere, which features Carol's Song, Nevada Bob's tribute to his wife, Bob Gordon returned to Nashville to record an album with numerous other songs he's penned. "Bad Movie Blues" is the first track on his most recent CD, Everyone Needs a Little Lovin'...And a Lot of Beer. 

Bad Movie Blues
Copyright 2021, Nevada Bob Gordon

Life today is like a bad movie,
you go to bed, the movie is gone, 
and when you awake to start the next day
you find that bad movie's still on.

I'm an old man, happy most of my days,
life was good then, no doubt.
I look around now and wonder
what's this new world all about.

World leaders today seem more greedy
using power to gain your respect
but before long, you wish they were gone,
they're not the person you helped elect. 

Life today is like a bad movie,
you go to bed, the movie is gone, 
and when you awake to start the next day
you find that bad movie's still on.

People today seek power and wealth,
what's more important I couldn't tell which
but I know for certain when they drop my last curtain
I'd rather die happy than rich.

Marriage today doesn't have the respect
where families remain intact;
married twice or never at all
has become an unfortunate fact.

When I look around and see, I think you'll agree,
I think people should take this advice:
take your old time to find a good mate,
you don't need to try marriage twice.

Make a good movie,
hold through bad weather,
face problems together,
make a good movie your life. 

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His smile may not be as effervescent as Amy Owens, and he has 
nothing to do with trying to hit high notes, but Nevada Bob Gordon
has lived a colorful life and he's got lots of stories to tell.

Nevada Bob at the Armory in Duluth where
young Bobby Zimmerman saw Buddy Holly.

Ay Gettysburg. "One Civil War is enough, thank you.

Another Nevada Sunset...

Meantime, life goes on.