{"id":20895,"date":"2024-06-18T06:13:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T06:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=20895"},"modified":"2025-12-05T22:05:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:05:45","slug":"workin-at-the-carwash-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/workin-at-the-carwash-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Workin at the Carwash Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">C Working At The Carwash Blues, Jim Croce<\/span><\/p>\n<pre class=\"xNWlr hjutX PBFx0\" style=\"font-size: 13px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: 900;\">Bill Does this in D\r\nJim Croce\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1SULVCWbFUI<\/span>\r\n\r\n[Intro] - - - [D]  [G7]<span class=\"iGhjU xXjiq VcfKs\" style=\"color: var(--ug-color-text-primary);\" data-name=\"B7\"> [Bm]<\/span><span class=\"iGhjU xXjiq VcfKs\" data-name=\"B7\"> [D7]<\/span><span class=\"iGhjU xXjiq VcfKs\" data-name=\"B7\"> [G7]<\/span><span class=\"iGhjU xXjiq VcfKs\" data-name=\"B7\"> [A7]<\/span><span class=\"iGhjU xXjiq VcfKs\" data-name=\"B7\"> [D]<\/span>\r\n\r\n[Verse 1] - - - Well, I had [D] just got out from the county prison.   Doin' [A7] ninety days for non-support.   [A7] Tried to find me an executive position.   But no [D] matter how smooth I talked.   They wouldn't listen to the [D] fact that I was genius.  The man say, \"We [G7] got all that we can [E] use.\"\r\n \r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[TAG CHORUS] - - - Now I got them [D] steadily [G7] depressin', [Bm] low down [D7] mind messin'  [G7] workin' at the [A7] car wash [D] blues.<\/span>\r\n \r\n[Verse 2] - - - Well, I [D] should be sittin' in an air conditioned [A7] office in a swivel chair.  [A7] Talkin' some trash to the secretaries sayin', [D] \"Here now mamma, come on over here.\"\r\nInstead I'm [D] stuck here rubbin' these fenders with a rag and [G7] walkin' home in soggy old [E] shoes.  <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[TAG CHORUS]<\/span> \r\n \r\n<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">[Bridge] - - - You know a [F] man of my ability he should be [G7] smokin' on a big [D] cigar.  But till I [F] get myself straight I guess I'll [G7] just have to wait in my rubber suit a-rubbin' these [A7] cars.<\/span>\r\n\r\n[Verse 3] - - - Well, [D] all I can do is to shake my head.  You [A7] might not believe that it's true.  For [A7] workin' at this indoor Niagara Falls is a [D] undiscovered Howard Hughes.  So baby, [D] don't expect to see me with no double martini in any [G7] high-brow society [E] news.  <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[TAG CHORUS]<\/span> \r\nSo baby, [D] don't expect to see me With no double martini in any [G7] high-brow society [E] news.\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[TAG CHORUS]\r\n[TAG CHORUS]<\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C Working At The Carwash Blues, Jim Croce Bill Does this in D Jim Croce https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1SULVCWbFUI [Intro] &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; [D] [G7] [Bm] [D7] [G7] [A7] [D] [Verse 1] &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; Well, I had [D] just got out from the county prison. Doin&#8217; [A7] ninety days for non-support. [A7] &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/workin-at-the-carwash-blues\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Workin at the Carwash Blues<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,126,13,116,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20895"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27504,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20895\/revisions\/27504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}