Promised Land

7 weeks ago by @lbrewington

Liner Notes

This week's SongSidekick Song Circle was to create a sports related song. The idea I had came from the movie Napoleon Dynamite and the character Uncle Rico. For those not familiar with the movie, Uncle Rico is a former high school football player who is now middle aged and lost in the memories of his glory days (and the movie is well worth the watch if you have not seen it. It is not a sport's movie and Uncle Rico is not the main character).

I often think of Uncle Rico because I had a group of friends that would sit around and reminisce about their time in high school, whether it be bands they played in, girls they chased, or old memes they shared. I found it slightly infuriating so I started calling anyone that exhibited this glory day behavior an Uncle Rico, or as a verb such as stop Uncle Ricoing. If they kept going on I would ask them how far they could throw a steak.

Anyway, here you have Promised Land, the place that Uncle Rico resides in his own head.

#songsidekicksongcircle #sports #acousticonetake

Took maybe three hours on this one, hard time recalling exactly but that seems about right.

Lyrics

a
uncle rico's conversion van
d
is parked by the river bend
e A
and he spends all day just twisting in his thought

in the finest of velour
track suits and decor
he's hatching a plan to make it all the way

D
coach put me in
A
can't you see i'm the man
E A
i'm gonna lead us all to the promised land

coach put me in
champagne and trophy wins
i'm gonna lead us all to the promised land

a quarter mile or two
that's what his throw could do
when he walked the halls of that old school

the states were already won
but the coached hesitated for once
and rico ended up, sitting on the bench

no hot tub soaks,
with his soul mate
no big mansions or fancy cars for him

[chorus]

[bridge]
g d
rico's gonna build a time machine
g d
those knobs and tubes are gonna set him free
e
and when he blasts into the past
D
the reporters will all have to ask
E
what did you tell them team to set em off (and he said)

[chorus]

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