Biography:
Crimmins brings The Hookers out to blast the room with Dixieland horns, rowdy ragtime piano and gypsy jazz guitar. Crooning and boozing the night away, he delivers everything you would expect from a man who claims to be possessed by the ghost of an old vaudevillian accordion player. Songs jump with a 1920's gaudiness, reminiscent of tawdry, dangerous jazz. While devious lyrics can mirror the sinister Charlestons they accompany, Crimmins also has a grab bag of unjaded torch songs at his disposal
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Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
A C# D B A E C#m E
Verse I
f#m A
Happy New Year girls
C#
I said “Your prince has arrived”
D B
with my head hung out on the passenger side
A C#m E
Howling like a dog at the moon
B D E
I know the clock is going strike here soon
A C#m
I see the signs of desperation through the holiday gloom
D B
and all the smiles from medication through the fog in the room
Am E A E
my dollar isn’t worth a dime in these peculiar times
Chorus
A
Oh I’m gonna find myself a woman
C#
Gonna start myself a fight
D B
I’m gonna hate myself tomorrow but I love myself tonight
A F#
You’ll know me as the toast of the town
B C#m A F E
Well tonight this modern world won’t bring me down
(A C# D B A E A E)
Verse II
A
Well I’m an optimistic guy
C#
I don’t dwell on the past
D B
Good news this year can’t be worse than the last
Am E
Don’t know why I came here at all
B E
when every day I go on dropping the ball
A C#
But I sing like Sinatra and move like Fred Astaire
D B
drinking champagne dancing on the tables and chairs
A C#m E
and knocking over bottles and cans
A
baby I’m your man
(E G#)
Chorus
A
Oh I’m gonna find myself a woman
C#
Gonna start myself a fight
D B
I’m gonna hate myself tomorrow but I love myself tonight
A F#
You’ll know me as the toast of the town
B E A F E
Tonight this modern world won’t bring me down
(A C# D B A E B E-A-E C# D B A F#)
B E
Well tonight this modern world
A F#
it won't bring me down no
B E
Well tonight this modern world
A F
it won't bring me down
E A F
It wont bring me down
E A F
It wont bring me down
E A
It wont bring me down
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Blas Cantó (...)
Blas Infante
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