Name: I Got Troubles
Duration: P00H03M09S
Description: I wanted to do a Bluesy track, but since I grew up on Mercer Island I really don't have a right to sing the blues so I started thinking about an ironic blues. The singer's life is super awesome but he complains about it anyhow.

I Got Troubles

from 2011 SONGAWEEK by HB Radke

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I wanted to do a Bluesy track, but since I grew up on Mercer Island I really don't have a right to sing the blues so I started thinking about an ironic blues. The singer's life is super awesome but he complains about it anyhow.

lyrics

If I had ninety-nine problems that would be just fine
I got me just one and it's the female kind

I've been cursed with this Angel's voice
and being born so handsome was not my choice

I've got troubles, Lord it's true
I've got troubles, that's why I'm blue

It's rough that I'm so witty, modest, and refined
Magnanimous and charming is such a grind

I can hardly go out anywhere
Women start to riot, they don't want to share

I've got troubles, oh Lord it's true
I've got troubles, I'm telling you!

I am such a lovely, selfless, giving, so and so
When it comes to pretty women I just can't say "no"
In this Sea of Ladies I'm gonna drown
So, please let there be enough of me to go around

Help me, Sweet Jesus, I hope and pray
I'll be delivered from here someday
But until then I'll do what I can
Oh, woe is me--The Perfect Man

I've got troubles, oh Lord it's true
I've got troubles, what will I do?

I've got troubles, oh Lord it's true
I've got troubles, I'm telling you!

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from 2011 SONGAWEEK, track released April 14, 2011
Written, performed, and produced by HB Radke

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HB Radke Seattle, Washington

HB Radke has music in his blood. The son of Harry James Orchestra frontman Fred Radke and vocalist Gina Funes, HB started on the trumpet at the age of 8. He started his own big band just a few years after that. His career as a vocalist began in his teens.

For 2011 he has resolved to write and record at least one original song per week. As of September 2011, he is 4 weeks ahead of schedule. ... more

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