Then there was the I saw the great Williams singing on the stage in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and he was all dressed up in his rose red lips to his rhinestone hips he belted out song after song as he from a brown paper bag And the he sang of love and pain, so pure reflections of human imperfections, it damn near me up But the rest of the show, was of slow And then woke me up
Later on the Astros were beating the living crap out of on the TV above and a to the left of the great Hank Williams' head As a busty suicide waitress poured him a double shot of 'whatever you got' and laughingly "I thought you were dead" The balls cracked as he tilted his head back and told her how he had a big star but now country music was full of freaks He sat there, in the TV Mascara streaked his
When I was only sixteen years old I went Houston to Abilene with a stunningly handsome woman in a Volkswagen Bug She was grown some kids all her own, a committment-free divorcee, and I was a man in We had one 8-track tape but it was of the late great Hank Williams and we sang in harmony "Hey good lookin', how's about Something up me"
Back at the bar they were calling call so I the barmaid a credit card to pay up my tab The TV was turned off and the was dark and the great Williams was gone so I asked her to call me a cab She said if you I can give you a ride, so there we were out the and into the city of brotherly love Into the night, out of In a VW Bug