Bald Headed Baby
Written: 1970
Writers: David Jenneson, Alan Hovden
Status: Unrecorded and unpublished
Genre and Style: Irreverent Northern Bluegrass
Comments: Dave: This song was a mainstay of the original Burner stage list. Inspired by our jug band roots it had a wild, frantic feel and never failed to get people dancing. It was written in a time when it was still politically correct for a young man to complain about being lumbered down with a surprise offspring. If any song ever badly needed a banjo, this is it.
Comments: Al: I remember getting hand cramps everytime I had to play this song (which was often).
I was a young man
So feather green
Gonna do things you ain’t never seen
I had an old truck
With a boot in the tire
I’m gonna set the world on fire
But now I’m mad and I don’t mean maybe
Went and done got myself this bald headed baby
I’m running round like a hound with the rabies
Since I done got myself this bald headed baby
Why is the night so long?
I see something must have gone wrong
I don’t see
No reason for your mirth
I didn’t know I was flirting with birth
But now I’m mad and I don’t mean maybe
Went and done got myself this bald headed baby
I’m running round like a hound with the rabies
Since I done got myself this bald headed baby.