From the recording White Elephant Blues
Life is just a garage sale waiting to happen..... people show up early to get the stuff you would have thrown away.
This little song is based on a string band tune and a life where the plates and the silverware don't match.
Lyrics
Chorus:
I bought a white elephant at a white elephant sale
I bought a white elephant at a white elephant sale
But I took it home, and it fit in well
Verse:
Cause I got an autographed picture of Elvis, I got a lava lamp too
I got a velvet painting of the Last Supper from Judas’s point of view,
I got a plastic flamingo and some old love letters from you
Chorus:
Break:
Bridge:
I bought a white elephant, I used some elbow grease
And now it looks as good as new
I took the white elephant, I put it on the mantelpiece
Right next to a photograph of you oo oo oo….
Chorus:
Verse:
‘cause I got the depression glassware, the Niagra Falls souvenir plate
I got the phonograph records, I got the 8 track tapes.
I got the ticket stubs from our first date.
Chorus:
but I took it home …….. right over there
(write your own verse…. I got that fender vibrochamp tube amp) based on a string band tune called the Batchelor Blues