Jim Briggs

Moose in the House Blues

Moose in the House Blues received critical acclaim recently at Hillside Elementary School.

If you've ever had even one moose in your house, I'm sure you will agree, no musical style would capture the mood better than a good old-fashioned 12-bar blues.

This particular song is one that my five-year-old daughter and I have been improvising for a while. "There's a Moose in the House", you see, is her favorite game of all time. She asked me to "put it on the iPod", so I headed to the basement to record it. Well, as soon as I heard it played back, I thought, "this needs a bass line". That done, I thought "this needs a solo." And then I thought, "this needs a moose".

Anyway, what should have taken about twenty minutes stretched into a couple of nights. Eventually I had to cut myself off and just put it out there. I wouldn't exactly say it's the song I want to be remembered for, but if you've ever had a moose in your house, hopefully it will bring you some comfort.

Now, for those of you who can't get enough moose, you can listen here to the studio version, complete with actual moose call.

And, if you want to sing along...

Lyrics

I woke up this morning, and there was a moose.
Said, I woke up this morning, and there was this moose.
So I don't need to tell you, I got those moose in the house blues

Well, they came in through the front door, didn't even ring the bell
I said, they came right in through the front door, didn't even ring the bell
And they don't wipe their feet, and what's worse (and I hate to say it, but) they smell.

There's a moose in my kitchen, eating all my food
There's a moose right there in my kitchen, eating up all my food
And they don't leave me none, and it puts me in a real bad mood. 'Cause that's rude.

Well they ate all my Cheetos
Drank all my root beer
Gonna get me a moose trap and get these moose outta here
'Cause there's a moose in my bedroom, sleepin' in my bed
And he hogs all the covers, so I'm sleeping on the floor instead.

What's that smell?
What are these footprints all over the place?
(moose singing)
Did you hear that? What was that awful noise?
Hey! There's a moose in the house!
There's a moose in your house!
You left the door open again, didn't you?
I don't know what you were thinking, you should just leave the door closed, 'cause those moose are gonna just walk right in.

There's a moose in my den, now
Watching my TV
And he takes up the whole sofa
So there's no room left for me

I would run for the hills now
But a moose ate my shoes
So I guess I have to live with
These low-down moose in the house blues

Yeah, I'm gonna have to live with
These low-down, no-good, moose in the house blues.

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