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Yellow Skinned Woman Blues

from DIAMONDS FOR THE QUEEN (2011) by Bob Westfall Moonlight Poet

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I once had a teacher at university ask me, "What's the deal with this song?". The question carried the perceived tone of, "Are you a politically incorrect, racist bastard?"
The answer is, this song is about having a lady over for dinner (and hopefully more) at my shitty, rented basement suite, and hoping all the while that my girlfriend doesn't call my landline phone, for which I don't know how to turn off the ringer, and the ringing volume only goes down so far.
So, in the song, I am the prisoner in the basement room, and my girlfriend was of Korean descent, so...
And while we're on the topic of skin color and hypocrisy, why does the "civilized" western world have zero qualms calling African American people "black", when their skin is not black, but a dark brown? If it's perfectly acceptable to call a dark-brown-skinned person "black", then why is it politically incorrect to call an Asian person "yellow", when his/her skin is not even yellow? This is something I ponder regularly.
Basically this song is about cheating on your girlfriend and having it eat away at your conscience.

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YELLOW SKINNED WOMAN BLUES
Prisoner in the basement room
Prisoner in the basement room
Waitin' on a yellow skinned woman to turn blue.

Come on telephone, don't ring on me now
Come on telephone, baby don't ring on me now
My conscience couldn't take it
She'd surely break down

Freedom is just one woman away
Freedom is just one woman away
Baby I need your lovin' to break these chains

Prisoner in the basement room
Prisoner in the basement room
Waitin' on a yellow skinned woman to turn blue.

(c) Bob Westfall 2011

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from DIAMONDS FOR THE QUEEN (2011), released September 1, 2011
Written by Bob Westfall.
Jim Ferguson provided background vocals and played congas & djembe.
Jack Lavin played bass and harmonica (and probably wishes he didn't)

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