Hey Laker: Absinthe House (for Bryan Lee)

[Cogs]

In the mid-80s, I lived in New Orleans & saw Bryan Lee regularly. If you were in his band at the time, then I saw you, too. I only met Bryan once & briefly, but he made an impression on me. So much so that I wrote a song about him, & performed it all the time with my band here in Seattle in the 90s.
I just found the original lyric sheet I wrote about 1992. It probably won't come across as "poetry", but I never recorded it so here it is:

Absinthe House (rumba in G)

If you're down in New Orleans out on Bourbon Street
Go to the Absinthe House & you'll see Bryan Lee
He's got a Gibson guitar, his band's the Jump Street Five
Five nights a week they keep the blues alive

Chorus:

He's got a mojo hand
He's got that gris-gris too
He's a Hoodoo man
He knows just what to do

He plays in an open window from ten to three
So if you ain't got no money, you can hear from the street
He makes that guitar sing, he makes that guitar weep
He'll thrill your soul from your head to your feet

Chorus/solo

Now the Jump Street Five lays down a solid groove
That gives Bryan Lee lots of room to move
He's bringin' it up, he's breakin' it down
Best blues guitar for miles around

Chorus

[Laker]

In the mid-80s, I lived in New Orleans & saw Bryan Lee regularly. If you were in his band at the time, then I saw you, too. I only met Bryan once & briefly, but he made an impression on me. So much so that I wrote a song about him, & performed it all the time with my band here in Seattle in the 90s.
I just found the original lyric sheet I wrote about 1992. It probably won't come across as "poetry", but I never recorded it so here it is:

Absinthe House (rumba in G)

If you're down in New Orleans out on Bourbon Street
Go to the Absinthe House & you'll see Bryan Lee
He's got a Gibson guitar, his band's the Jump Street Five
Five nights a week they keep the blues alive

Chorus:

He's got a mojo hand
He's got that gris-gris too
He's a Hoodoo man
He knows just what to do

He plays in an open window from ten to three
So if you ain't got no money, you can hear from the street
He makes that guitar sing, he makes that guitar weep
He'll thrill your soul from your head to your feet

Chorus/solo

Now the Jump Street Five plays down a solid groove
That gives Bryan Lee lots of room to move
He's bringin' it up, he's breakin' it down
Best blues guitar for miles around

Chorus

My days with Bryan were before he made the move to New Orleans, but when he’d come back to Wisconsin to visit family I’d put a band together and we’d play a couple of gigs.

That song looks pretty interesting and if you don’t mind, we’ll try to play it at the 3rd annual Bryan Lee Blues Fest on July 22nd, 2023 in Two Rivers, Wisconsin (Bryan’s home town). Could you edit and add chird changes somI get an idea of how you put it together?
Each year I’ve put a group together of former Bryan band members and we play as the Bryan Lee Express (the name of Bryan’s band I was last in). If this link works it is a short clip of the band I put together last year when we opened the show.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=599178678312509

[Cogs]

Let me get to work on that. Chances are slim, but I might have an old cassette demo tucked away. I'll look for it as soon as I get some time

[Cogs]

I just found a typo: 3rd verse should be "lays" & not "plays"