Song Description

Bill Colgate - lead vocal/ Cam MacInnes - guitar/ David Woodhead - bass/ David Norris - drums/ Joe Ingrao - Hammond B3.

Lyrics

It all began in the playground at the bottom of my wrist
Four fingers and a thumb curled up into a fist
A soldier on a pilgrimage to some mystic place
Finally found his Holy Grail in Johnny Miller's face
I'd never signed a contract been privy to no plan
How come sometimes I feel like the devil's right hand man A-oo

With an open invitation to no fixed address
I grabbed my bags put on my cap took off for the picaresque
Drowning in the pouring rain burning in the sun
I had barely taught myself to crawl before I had to run
I had never signed a contract been privy to no plan
How come sometimes I feel like the devil's right hand man A-oo

From Victoria to Halifax from Baffin to Grand Bend
I'd play my hand I'd lay some tracks and then I'd play again
Till I found Happy Valley and I took myself a wife
Bought a house I flipped it once I tried to flip it twice
I had never signed a contract been privy to no plan
How come sometimes I feel like the devil's right hand man A-oo

I bought a thing to fix my hair and a thing to fix my teeth
A thing to turn my houselights on a thing to freeze my beef
A thing to make me happy when I was feeling blue
A thing when I was feeling bored that gave me things to do
I had never signed a contract been privy to no plan
So how come sometimes I feel like the devil's right hand man A-oo

Someday I'll live in Paris someday I'll live in France
I'll stand atop La Tour Eiffel and hike my Gucci pants
Throw my hands into the air and shout hip-hip-hooray
I sang a song I made a friend I ate a snail today
I had never signed a contract been privy to no plan
So how come sometimes I feel like the devil's right hand man A-oo

Henry David Thoreau once said
'Bout the castles inside your head
We try to build 'em up big and tall
But the noblemen
Who live in them
Are much too small A-oo A-oo A-oo