“Sugar Mama” - a song about sugar
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Story Pairing
I find that I write a lot less during the summer. The last couple years that frustrated me to no end, but this summer I’ve gotten better at embracing seasons and allowing each to have it’s own “personality”. Summer as a musician is the time to buckle down, work a bunch, and collect experiences for the colder slower seasons where songwriting seems to come banging on creative’s doors.
That said, I’ve had a few songs popping up, but they seem to be a little less poetic than normal, case in point.
There is a place in Akron called the Diamond Grille, which is a really nice steak house that has been a staple of our cities fine dining for a long time. They recently started having live music and I was fortunate to get a couple dates on the books. For me, if you haven’t noticed, I play places with my stomach. Meaning one of the perks of this job is that we often get a meal after the show, and the places I have cultivated over the years are the ones that I think have the best food. So playing a show and then having a big ole steak afterwards was a treat (for all my vegan/vegetarian readers, know that I love you and I do keep my red meat consumption very low).
Leading up to this show, and a thought that I have every now and then, is that maybe I’ll meet an old school patron of the arts at one of these nicer places. In the “olden days” that’s how it worked. Artists rarely were getting paid, they had a patron that would see to their needs and in turn that patron would have a fancy artist at their beck and call. Almost like a trading card, but with a human…or what we now call a sugar mama/daddy. So I wrote this song with wishful thinking.
It didn’t happen, but never say never, and I did get a $50 tip after playing it… so…. the ball has started rolling.
Song Structure
Chords: E / E7 / A7 / A#dim7 /E/C#7/F#/B7/E
Voice Memos
Notebook Page
July 2023
Lyrics
I've been holding out, for a sugar mama
To take my troubles away
I've been trying real hard
But I can't get one to stay
Is it my lack of patience, or my lack of charm
A little sugar won't do nobody harm
I've been trying real hard
They won't keep me on their arm
I'll just make my music, play my song
Hope that something sweeter comes along
I've been trying real hard
I guess I'm doing it wrong
I've been holding out, for a sugar mama
To take my troubles away
I've been trying real hard
But I can't get one to stay