Patti LuPone - Trouble (Live) Lyrics

Lyrics Trouble (Live) - Patti LuPone



Friend, either you're closing your eyes
To a situation you do not wish to acknowledge
Or you are not aware of the caliber of disaster indicated
By the presence of a pool table in your
Community . Well, ya got trouble, my friend, right here,
I say, trouble right here in River City.
Why sure I'm a billiard player,
Certainly mighty proud I say
I'm always mighty proud to say it.
I consider that the hours I spend
With a cue in my hand are golden.
Help you cultivate horse sense
And a cool head and a keen eye.
J'ever take and try to give
An iron-clad leave to yourself
From a three-reail billiard shot?
But just as I say,
It takes judgement, brains, and maturity to score
In any balkline game,
I say that any boob kin take
And shove a ball in a pocket.
And they call that sloth.
The first big step on the road
To the depths of deg-ra-Day--
I say, first, medicinal wine from a teaspoon,
Then beer from a bottle.
An' the next thing ya know,
Your son is playin' for money
In a pinch-back suit.
And list'nin to some big out-a-town Jasper
Hearin' him tell about horse-race gamblin'.
Not a wholesome trottin' race, no!
But a race where they set down right on the horse!
Like to see some stuck-up jockey'boy
Sittin' on Dan Patch? Make your blood boil?
Well, I should say.
Now, friends, lemme tell you what I mean.
Ya got one, two, three, four, five, six pockets in a table.
Pockets that mark the diff'rence
Between a gentlemen and a bum,
With a capital "B,"
And that rhymes with "P" and that stands for pool!
And all week long your River City
Youth'll be frittern away,
I say your young men'll be frittern!
Frittern away their noontime, suppertime, choretime too!
Get the ball in the pocket,
Never mind gittin' Dandelions pulled
Or the screen door patched or the beefsteak pounded.
Never mind pumpin' any water
'Til your parents are caught with the Cistern empty
On a Saturday night and that's trouble,
Oh, yes we got lots and lots a' trouble.
I'm thinkin' of the kids in the knickerbockers,
Shirt-tail young ones, peekin' in the pool
Hall window after school.
Ya got trouble, folks, right here in River City.
Trouble with a capital "T"
And that rhymes with "P" and that stands for pool!
Now, I know all you folks are the right kinda parents.
I'm gonna be perfectly frank.
Would ya like to know what kinda conversation goes
On while they're loafin' around that Hall?
They're tryin' out Bevo, tryin' out cubebs,
Tryin' out Tailor Mades like Cigarette Feends!
And braggin' all about
How they're gonna cover up a tell-tale breath with Sen-Sen.
One fine night, they leave the pool hall,
Headin' for the dance at the Arm'ry!
Libertine men and Scarlet women!
And Rag-time, shameless music
That'll grab your son and your daughter
With the arms of a jungle animal instinct!
Mass-staria!
Friends, the idle brain is the devil's playground!
Trouble, oh we got trouble,
Right here in River City!
With a capital "T"
That rhymes with "P"
And that stands for Pool,
That stands for pool.
We've surely got trouble!
Right here in River City,
Right here!
Gotta figger out a way
To keep the young ones moral after school!
Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble...
Mothers of River City!
Heed the warning before it's too late!
Watch for the tell-tale sign of corruption!
The moment your son leaves the house,
Does he rebuckle his knickerbockers below the knee?
Is there a nicotine stain on his index finger?
A dime novel hidden in the corn crib?
Is he starting to memorize jokes from Capt.
Billy's Whiz Bang?
Are certain words creeping into his conversation?
Words like 'swell?"
And 'so's your old man?"
Well, if so my friends,
Ya got trouble,
Right here in River city!
With a capital "T"
And that rhymes with "P"
And that stands for Pool.
We've surely got trouble!
Right here in River City!
Remember the Maine, Plymouth Rock and the Golden Rule!
Oh, we've got trouble.
We're in terrible, terrible trouble.
That game with the fifteen numbered balls is a devil's tool!
Oh yes we got trouble, trouble, trouble!
With a "T"! Gotta rhyme it with "P"!
And that stands for Pool!!!




Patti LuPone - Don't Monkey With Broadway
Album Don't Monkey With Broadway
date of release
29-09-2017

1 Please Don’t Monkey With Broadway (Live)
2 “Plot didn’t matter… neither did gender or age.” (Live)
3 A Lot of Livin'’ to Do (Live)
4 “In my senior year at Northport High School…” (Live)
5 Happy Talk (Live)
6 “I went to my very first audition in New York City…” (Live)
7 Big Spender (Live)
8 “This musical inspired me…” (Live)
9 Easy To Be Hard (Live)
10 “Where was my big Broadway musical?” (Live)
11 Meadowlark (Live)
12 “I went home and slept for nine months…” (Live)
13 Millworker (Live)
14 “My musical theatre education…” (Live)
15 I Could Write a Book / There’s a Small Hotel (Live)
16 “I didn’t just like pretty songs…” (Live)
17 I’m Just a Girl Who Cain’t Say No (Live)
18 If (Live)
19 Some People (Live)
20 Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina (Live)
21 Trouble (Live)
22 “It didn’t matter...” (Live)
23 Sit Down, You’re Rocking the Boat (Live)
24 Blow, Gabriel, Blow (Live)
25 “I am a product of the Northport Public School System…” (Live)
26 Sleepy Man (Live)
27 Something’s Coming (Live)
28 “There are two roles I would be perfect for.” (Live)
29 A Boy Like That / I Have a Love (Live)
30 Somewhere (Live)
31 “Here are three by Steve…” (Live)
32 Another Hundred People (Live)
33 Anyone Can Whistle (Live)
34 Being Alive (Live)
35 “There are a few constants in that neighborhood…” (Live)
36 Give My Regards to Broadway (Live)
37 The Ladies Who Lunch (Live)
38 Some Other Time (Live)




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