[TITLE: BOOM CHUGGA (EVERYTHING’S ALRIGHT)] [ARTIST: Earthling] [STYLE: Porch-stomp Americana • playful folk-rock • communal singalong] [TEMPO: 96 BPM | KEY: G MAJOR | TIME: 4/4] [SOUND: Acoustic guitar, foot stomps, handclaps, upright bass, brushed drums building to full kit, fiddle, harmonica, warm gang vocals] [VOCAL: Weathered baritone starts close and tired; a few voices invite him in; the final refrain belongs to the whole room] [INTRO — quiet guitar; clock tick dissolves into a foot tapping next door] [VERSE 1 — intimate] Woke up with the ceiling Sitting heavy on my chest. Coffee from last night, And a shirt I hadn't pressed. My boots were by the doorway. I just watched the morning crawl In a narrow stripe of daylight Up the bedroom wall. Then something through the window— A guitar missing strings, A table slapped in rhythm, Somebody trying to sing. From the café on the corner Came a voice I knew by name: “Come as you are, Earthling. We saved your place again.” [INSTRUMENTAL TURN — 4 bars; foot taps answer the guitar; a distant whistle finds the tune] [HOOK — small group, light and inviting] Boom chugga, boom chugga, hey! Boom chugga, chugga-boom, hey! Boom chugga, boom chugga, hey! Everything's gonna feel alright, hey! [VERSE 2 — bass enters; lead vocal starts to smile] I carried in my bad night. They didn't ask me where I'd been. A woman slid a chair out; Someone counted us all in. The drummer had two teaspoons And a cup without a handle. We made that little corner shake Till the window caught the candle. I couldn't make the morning good By saying that it was. But I could keep a rhythm With the people that I loved. The man behind the counter Put his apron on a chair. He shouted, “Move on over!” And somehow there was room right there. [BETWEEN-VERSE INSTRUMENTAL — 8 bars; harmonica trades a playful phrase with fiddle; claps join one pair at a time] [HOOK — fuller groove; lead and crowd trade lines] [Lead] Boom chugga, boom chugga! [Crowd] Hey! [Lead] Boom chugga, chugga-boom! [Crowd] Hey! [All] Boom chugga, boom chugga, hey! Everything's gonna feel alright, hey! [BRIDGE — band drops to one guitar and foot taps] Boom… chugga… Boom… chugga… Hey… hey… [Spoken, close] Maybe the day gets hard again. Right now, pass me that spoon. [Percussion builds on cups, tables, boots, and hands] Boom chugga, boom chugga— Hey! Hey! Boom chugga, chugga-boom— Hey! Hey! [INSTRUMENTAL BREAK — 8 bars; fiddle leads, harmonica answers; full drums kick in on the final “HEY!”] [FINAL CHORUS — full band, loose and joyful] Boom chugga, boom chugga, HEY! Boom chugga, chugga-boom, HEY! Boom chugga, boom chugga, HEY! Everything's gonna feel alright, HEY! [Lead] If you've got a voice— [Crowd] Sing it! [Lead] If you've got a hand— [Crowd] Bring it! [All] There's a place for you beside us. Come on in and help us swing it! Boom chugga, boom chugga, HEY! Boom chugga, chugga-boom, HEY! Boom chugga, boom chugga, HEY! Everything's gonna feel alright, HEY! [OUTRO — instruments drop out; only boots, claps, and voices] [Lead] Everything's gonna feel— [Crowd] Alright! [Lead] For a little while, right here— [Crowd] Alright! [All] Boom chugga, boom chugga— [One unified stomp, clap, and shout] HEY!
