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Pick Your Own

by Job 6 Pac

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1.
I see you picking my flowers As I peek out my window I see you picking yer nose As I'm parked in my car I see you picking off ticks That you got from my yard I see you picking my flowers As I peak on my mushroom I see you picking my brain As I peek from afar I see you picking up chicks That you met at my bar I see you picked a real winner As I bleed on my white rose I see you pricked by a thorn As I pick from a jar I see you picking and a grinnin' From behind my geetar From behind my white picket fence I see you picking my flowers I see you picking my flowers I see you I see you
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Astral Train 03:12
My mind was so messed up It just wasn't right Then I got with the doctor Now everything is just fine I used to be deceitful Wishing schadenfreude pain Now I travel with the doctor Riding on an astral train My mind was so messed up It just wasn't right Then I got with the shadow Now everything is just fine I used to shout at steeples And curse at my life's bane Now I travel with the shadow Riding on an astral train I'm ok now My mind is alright I'm ok now I'm clean outta sight I'm ok now I'm ok now My mind was so messed up It just wasn't right Then I got with my baby Now everything is just fine I used to covet people And drink too much fake Champagne Now I'm riding with my baby First class on an astral train I'm ok now My mind is alright I'm ok now I'm clean outta sight I'm ok now I'm doing just fine I'm ok now I'm resigned to the grand design
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Words cannot express
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Words cannot express
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Muffled drums and some buzz Shaking hands four shaking floods Scraping chairs and some buzz Beating heart and beating blood Is that a rooster or the rain Is that myself in the drain What the hell's that pounding Drum door heart or brain Drum door heart or brain Sixteen sticks and some hiss Missing parts four missing sticks Scraping cymbals and some hiss Breaking hearts and breaking wits That's a rooster not the rain That's myself in the drain I know what's pounding Drum door heart and brain Drum door heart and brain
6.
I met a Mountain Mama In some old mountain town She played me mountain records We dug to get on down She played me mountain records And spoke in mountain jive She loved to wax rhapsodic We grooved to be so high First There Is A Mountain The Allman's Mountain Jam She played that Mountain Music By good ol' Alabam' Taking Tiger Mountain The Blue Ridge Mountain Blues Ain't No Mountain High Enough To name but a few I knew a Mountain Mama In some old mountain time She loved to play my banjo I sipped her sweet mountain wine She played me mountain records And danced the mountain side She loved to be my baby I swam her deep mountain eyes Go Tell It On The Mountain Hall Of The Mountain King The Gold Hearted Mountain Top Queen Directory Mountains Of The Moon Meat Puppets Mountain Line She played that Rocky Mountain Way Even Rocky Mountain High Man On The Silver Mountain Night On Bald Mountain Leslie West and his Mountain She'll Be Comin' Round The Mountain I loved my Mountain Mama In some old mountain tune She played me like a fiddle My bright moon turned dark blue I miss my Mountain Mama So I wrote this mountain song I hope someday she hears it And comes back before too long Foggy Mountain Breakdown Some more Mountain Jam She played that Sugar Mountain By the dude who wrote Alabam' Black Mountain Rag Black Mountain Side Misty Mountain Hop River Deep Mountain High Some say she was the daughter of Clifton Clowers From up there on Wolverton Mountain I don't know He never threatened me What I do know is She was no Mountain Girl Like Jerry G had She was a Mountain Mama
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Best We Can 02:08
I got married in a saloon I read poetry on the can I'd like to think I'm complex Well I'm doin' the best I can Sometimes I walk with a limp In the summer I crave a tan I'd like to think I was handsome once Well I'm doin' the best I can Saturdays I clean the litter box I play air flute to Herbie Mann I've been dreaming about young women Well I'm doin' the best I can I once fancied myself a crooner I know that's not what I am I'll just bash on these drums and geetars Well I'm doin' the best I can Filets stuffed with bleu cheese Foie gras out of the can Fine wines from faraway places Well I'm doin the best I can Tropical drinks with tropical fans Me and my baby's toes in the sand It ain't so bad after all We're doin' the best we can
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Words cannot express
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Words cannot express
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Our friends' painting hang on the wall In the back bedroom just down the hall They hang so quietly yet seem to call Our friends' paintings hang on our wall Our friends' paintings hang on our walls In our rooms and in our halls They hang so patiently we hear their calls Our friends' paintings hang on our walls Some of them are with us Some have left us all We remember them They're on our walls Our friends' voices hang in the hall In the back of our minds we hear them call they speak so quietly and seem to call Our friends' voices just down the hall Our friends' voices echo off the walls In the back of our minds just down the halls They speak so lovingly we hear their calls Our friends' voices hang in the walls Some of them are with us Some have left us all We remember them They're on our walls Our friends' painting live on our walls In the back of our minds and in our halls They speak so quietly yet we hear them call Our friends' voices live in our walls Some of them are with us Some have left us all We remember them They softly call

about

The title of JOB 6 PAC's third collection of songs, PICK YOUR OWN, once again has a long O in one of the words to reiterate that JOB is JOHB, not JAHB. We'll assume that you know SIX is SIX and PAC is PACK. I think we're beyond it at this point.

PICK YOUR OWN comes two years after CLOSED and some five years after PRONOUNCED. Contractual obligations are being met. Again, this collection finds our one person recording collective pushing the boundaries of what he is capable of. And, in turn, creating another joyful, glorious mess of catchy sound collages and thought-provoking ditties. In addition, the sculpting of the sonics has improved in this batch. And guitars have been tuned in different ways. Tweak tweak tweak. There's something here for everyone. Well, maybe not everyone and most certainly only a few. OH, but the few contain multitudes!

To put it in a single bag one would have to call it Psychedelia. Within those confines the listener will hear Celebratory Garage Stompers, Off-Kilter Instrumental Drone Poems, Soundtracks To Not Yet Existing Nightmares, Of The Earth Percussive Contemplations, and of course the Hark and Dumorous Plord Way that JOB so loves. Speaking of words, or lack thereof. Four out ten tunes on PICK YOUR OWN are instrumentals. Maybe the next one will have more instrumentals. Maybe it will have all instrumentals. Clearly, to do so would be commercial suicide. Maybe there won't be a next one. A new hobby may be in order.

In the end PICK YOUR OWN reveals one human being's Obsessive Commitment to Art and Artistic Commitment to Obsessions.

Or as JOB likes to say, "I'm just doin' it for the kicks, man. I dig it, so crank it!"

credits

released October 28, 2022

Songs and recordings by Joe Patt
Instruments by Joe Patt (drums, guitars, organs, percussions, vocals)
Lady voicings on Best We Can by Tracy Kellner
Masterings by Matt Engstrom
Logo drawings by John Forbes
Photographings and designings by Joe Patt
Inspirings on Mountain Mama by John Denver and Toots Hibbert

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Job 6 Pac Chicago, Illinois

JOB 6 PAC is the alter ego of JOE PATT (Tijuana Hercules, Royal Pines, Country Teasers, Them Wranch, Hairy Patt Band). JOB is a hard working, hard thinking, hard drinking, hard praying, hard playing, and hard loving everyman. He is often forsaken and treated cruelly by the gods. He hides from them in his Chicago basement playing drums and creating psychedelic ditties and drones to appease them. ... more

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