Story Behind The Song

I wrote it drunk on champagne, all by myself, in a hotel room in the south of France.

Song Description

It's a song about a woman who is sleeping with numerous people and how it effects her relationship with "Joe."

Lyrics

Joe Blues
Marghi Allen
(c) 1979

I?ve got a friend by the name of Joe
He says yes when he really means no
Well, you might say he?s a contradictory dude
Cause when he does me
I always feel like I?ve just been screwed.

Joe?s got a friend named Jim
I?ll take Joe, if I can?t get him
He is a big, strong, hard loving son of a gun
Well, I always take Jim
When I want to have me some kind of fun.

Chorus:
I said, ?Hey Joe, hey Joe
Can anybody tell me
Where did Joe go.
I?ve been looking high and low
For Joe
Ever since two.
Well, I can?t find Jim
I guess Joe?s just gonna have to do.?

Jim?s brother?s name is Frank
He?s alright bit his wife takes the cake
She is a big-bosomed, long-legged girl name of Sue
Well, three may be a crowd
But it?s a lot more fun than two.

Chorus

Sometimes Jim and Frank and Sue
Come over to my house
And then we do
Things to each other
I don?t think I should elucidate
I will just say that four
Is better than three
Make no mistake.

Chorus

I was sitting in the sauna
Last night at half past ten
I was sweating hard
When Joe burst in
He was in a high rage
He weren?t talking too sweet
Well he called me some names
I had better not repeat.

He said that he?d heard about me and Sue
About me and Frank
Me and Jim too
I said, ?Have you heard about
Me and Sue and Frank and Jim.
Well, his eyes bulged out
And he started hollering

That?s when I said,
?Hey Joe, hey Joe
Why don?t you just go blow
You ain?t got no say
About what I do
You?re an OK lover
If I can?t find me no other
And that?s the truth!?