Met this girl @ Shifty's what was mesmerized by Outlaw Whitey Wayne…read moreand the 78s. 78s is a reference to those old LP-sized early records th't
played @ 100 mph, and was always scratchy soundin' She tole me 3
soongs ah needed ta hear to evaluate Whitey & his band: Bad News,
If It Ain't Broke, keep usin' it, & Hold her if she tries to step on your
pedal steel. Oh, and I'm on Fire, the hook of the tune, but the first line
'a the song closely aped a 50s-60's rocker lyric "Pretty little girl with the
hah school sweater, skip that buoy, yew kin do better" with a melody that
stole from "Way down yonder in the injun nation. savages rage at the
indignation, of havin' to live on the reservation!"
It was all ah could do ta keep from cryin' as the beertender called bar
time. Friend of mine wrote the perfect closin' to a country & western
soong evenin' in the tavern, and sent it to me. I wrote back an tole him it weren't good 'nuf cuz it din't say nothin' bout gittin' drunk, sawin' the bar in half with a chainsaw,
or Mama's 2 year stretch in the pen. At that point me'n the girl
settled on a soong ta end the evenin' an it goes lak this:
Then one day a movie scout
Came to town to take her out (Jordanaires: Came to town to take her out)
Hollywood could offer more
So she left the boy next door who worked at the candy store
(Jordanaires: Dream on, dream on teenage queen see you on the movie screen)
Very soon she was a star
Pretty house and shiny car
Swimmin' pool and a fence around
But she missed her old home town (Jordanaires: But she missed her old home town)
All the world was at her door
All except the boy next door who worked at the candy store
(Jordanaires: Dream on, dream on teenage queen saddest girl we've ever seen)
Then one day the teenage star
Sold her house and all her cars
Gave up all her wealth and fame
Left it all and caught a train (Jordanaires: Left it all and caught a train)
Do I have to tell you more
She came back to the boy next door who worked at the candy store
(Now this story has a moral, you'll hear it all at the candy store)
After that, ah realized, we din't tell 'un
another r names nohow. You don't have to call me darlin, darling,
we never even called one another by name.