First Love Was You (Hell Yes)
jazz, Smoky barroom jazz-country hybrid, baritone male vocals with rough, lived-in grit. Upright bass walking in a lazy swing, brushed kit loping behind, twangy hollow-body guitar trading phrases with a wheezing barroom organ. Verses stay intimate and low, choruses widen with stacked low harmonies and pedal steel swells, ending on a loose vamp where the band stretches and the vocal ad-libs around the hook., outlaw country, swing, warm, male vocals
First Love Was You (Hell Yes)
jazz, Smoky barroom jazz-country hybrid, baritone male vocals with rough, lived-in grit. Upright bass walking in a lazy swing, brushed kit loping behind, twangy hollow-body guitar trading phrases with a wheezing barroom organ. Verses stay intimate and low, choruses widen with stacked low harmonies and pedal steel swells, ending on a loose vamp where the band stretches and the vocal ad-libs around the hook., outlaw country, swing, warm, male vocals
Lyrics
Verse 1
Met you in a dive off Thirty-Second
Neon buzzing like a tired old fly
You laughed through the smoke at something I said
And I knew right then I was done, boy I
Chorus
My first love was you, (heheheh) hell yes
Boots on my table, head on my chest
Cheap beer kisses, jukebox saints
Singing our troubles like they ain't no weight
My first love was you, hell yes
All that wild in a sundress
Verse 2
You'd steal my hat, call me "cowboy"
Spin my barstool just to watch me lean
Turn that corner booth into a dance floor
Two broke hearts playing make-believe
Chorus
My first love was you, (heheheh) hell yes
Boots on my table, head on my chest
Cheap beer kisses, jukebox saints
Singing our troubles like they ain't no weight
My first love was you, hell yes
All that wild in a sundress
Bridge
We burned out fast as a tip jar candle
Left our names carved in that bathroom stall
I still drive by when the night gets lonesome
Hear your laugh echo down that hall (oh yeah)
Chorus
My first love was you, (heheheh) hell yes
Boots on my table, head on my chest
Cheap beer kisses, jukebox saints
Singing our troubles like they ain't no weight
My first love was you, hell yes
My first love was you, hell yes
Outro
Hell yes, my first love was you
Lazy band swaying, closing time truth
Hell yes, my first love was you
And a fool like me still hums that tune (hell yes)