Well if you wanna go that song line It's apparent to me where I got the idea to write kinda based on Wino there He to Paris, [?] at 40, 12 old men African friend and the goes on
So we're getting down to the bottom of the chest here and we have a few things left to for ya' And uhm So just dig around down here In the bottom of the pile and see Oh, Oh
Here's one, let me get out And as you guess, this one probably needs a story too To you where this song came from Whoever said you can't ever go Sometimes you to go home even of you want to That's a little lesson I around this time
As a sailor, you go where the takes you I intended for it to blow me far the port city of Mobile to seek fortune and Still, my point was also my disembarking point The had taken me back to the starting line
I figured the Universe had a reason for So i went along with that and wound up in the studio with and Travis, where the road to success began was the wizard who found me work around town became my first manager and blazed the trail eventually led to
Though Mardi and the new world started in Mobile' It was not a prone to a nightlife reputation Other than those two weeks Lent [?] in New Orleans was where we went to up our heels Mobile tended to move to own beat and hasn't changed to this day
it along at a timeless, predictable cadence But there were actually two big on a national scale Mardi Gras The senior game and the America's Junior Miss pageant Southerners love beauty and since Atlantic City the Miss America pageant Little Mobile attracted the America's Junior Miss to town
was also very active in civic functions and tried to use his influence to get a home talent on the Junior MIss pageant and television He pitched the to the people who ran the pageant that it would be great to feature a boy, me, on the show Well, were not seeing it his way, this was a big deal to Mobile and they stars and I was just a bar singer
Milton did get me a gig, He to me that I wasn't going to get my national tv debut as of the pageant But, he did get me a job playing to the at breakfast, the morning of the day of the show Let's just say that back in days, I did not do a lot of shows
So when Milton to me that I would be performing at 7am I kinda for a moment, but only a moment Because when down at the bottom of the success ladder, you do anything you can to get yourself a few up that ladder seperate the pack So, I got up at 6 am, Tuned my 12 string, drank a au lait, ate a few beignets played breakfast for the Junior Miss contestants They to like it So a live version of that infamous breakfast buffet in Mobile wih yours truly and the Miss contestants along to Caiifornia Dreaming And by the way I don't think I've ever another breakfast gig other than the Today Show since then...