Friday May 1, 2020 “Banditos” The Refreshments

Today’s song of the day comes from an album/CD titled ‘Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big & Buzzy’ which sets the tone nicely for another frivoulous Friday. And who doesn’t enjoy a raucous tale about bank robbery, Captain Jean Luc Picard IDs, sugar in gas tanks, slashed tires and ultimately, betrayal…’I got the pistol, so I get the pesos’.

The Refreshments had considered calling their band Pop Enema but apparently good judgment prevailed and they went with the more mainstream alternative. Started in Tempe AZ by Roger Clyne, their lead singer and primary songwriter and drummer Dusty Denham around the same time as the Gin Blossoms, another Tempe band but unfortunately the Refreshments never quite achieved their level of success.

As an aside, a song they typically used for their soundchecks was picked up and used as the theme for the animated TV show ‘King of the Hill’.

So enjoy this high energy live version, jump around with the band and then let’s go rob a bank. Why…because that’s where the money is.

Stay safe and well…and frivolous.

Just how far down do you want to go

We can talk it out over a cup of joe

And you can look deep in my eyes

Like I was a super-model


Uh huh

It's just you and me baby

No one else we can trust

We'll say nothin' to no one


No how or we'll bust

Never crack a smile or flinch or cry

For nobody

Uh huh


So give your ID card to the border guard

Your alias says you Captain John Luke Picard

Of the United Federation of Planets
'Cause they won't speak English any ways


Everybody knows that the world is full of stupid people

So meet me at the mission at midnight

We'll divy up there

Everybody knows that the world is full of stupid people


So I got the pistol

So I get the Pesos

That seems fair

We'll put the sugar in the tank of the sheriff's car


We'll slash the deputy's tires

They won't get very far

When they finally get the word that there's been a hold-up

Uh huh


Everybody knows that the world is full of stupid people

So meet me at the mission at midnight

We'll divy up there

Everybody knows that the world is full of stupid people


So I got the pistol

So I get the Pesos

That seems fair

That seems fair