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A Regular Guy

from The 2x4's Live 4​/​80 by The 2x4's

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A Regular Guy
by John Hovorka

He was just a regular guy
Cook County officers dragged him out alive
He murdered thirty-seven so they ripped his house to hell
But they said he was a regular guy

Look at that man, he shovels your yard
Look at that man, he's working so hard
Look at that man, at the party he's a clown
But when it comes to construction work
you've got to dig down

He was quite a regular guy
It takes backbone to excavate a pool at night
The house smelled like mice, his wife complained it wasn't nice
But she said he was a regular guy

Look at that man
Guess what he did
When he offered nice jobs to the neighborhood kids
He fucked them then he cut them down then buried them downstairs
It just goes to show and who even cares?
After all he was a regular guy

credits

from The 2x4's Live 4​/​80, released December 18, 2021
John Hovorka: lead vocal, guitar
Tom Martel: bass guitar, backing vocal
Steve Donnelly: drums & devices, backing vocal
Cubie: guitar

words and music by John Hovorka, Jr.

recorded by Rolfe Anderson on a reel to reel tape recorder

This song was based on an early news report about the John Wayne Gacy serial killing which is why it says he killed 37. He was later determined to have killed 38.

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John Hovorka New York

John Hovorka played guitar and bass guitar in bands first in Geneva NY but mostly in Boston then in New York City. After he started writing songs he was the leader of The 2x4's (1978 - 1980), then Noise Pencil (1982), Turbines (1983 - 1987), Hovorka (1988 - 2002), John Hovorka And The Dawn Of Mechanized Farming (DOMF) (2003 - 2016), and also made solo albums. He is now in Massachusetts. ... more

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