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 treasure here and we have a few left to play for ya' And uhm So let's dig around down here In the bottom of the pile and see Oh, Oh
Here's one, let me get out And as you might guess, this one needs a story too To tell you where song came from said you can't ever go home? Sometimes you have to go even of you don't to a little lesson I learnt around this time
As a sailor, you go the wind takes you I intended for it to blow me far the port city of Mobile to fortune and fame Still, my embarkation was also my disembarking point The winds had me back to the starting line
I the Universe had a reason for that So i just went along that and wound up in the studio Milton and Travis, where the actual road to began Milton was the wizard who found me around town became my first and blazed the trail that led to Nashville
Though Mardi Gras and the new started in Mobile' It was not a town prone to a reputation than those two weeks before Lent [?] in New Orleans was where we to kick up our heels Mobile tended to move to own beat and that changed to this day
it drifts at a timeless, predictable cadence But there were actually two big events on a scale besides Mardi The senior bowl game and the America's Miss pageant love beauty pageants and since Atlantic City claimed the Miss America Little Mobile somehow the Junior Miss pageant to town
Milton was also very in civic functions and tried to use his influence to get a home town talent on the Junior pageant and television He pitched the to the people who ran the pageant it would be great to feature a local boy, me, on the show Well, were not seeing it his way, this was a big deal to Mobile and they wanted and I was just a bar singer
did however get me a gig, He explained to me that I wasn't going to get my tv debut as part of the But, he did get me a job playing to the at breakfast, the of the final 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 flinched for a moment, but only a Because when you're down at the of the success ladder, you do anything you can to get yourself a few up that ladder seperate from the So, I got up at 6 am, Tuned my 12 string, a cafe au lait, ate a few beignets then played breakfast for the Junior contestants seemed to like it So a live version of that infamous breakfast buffet in Mobile wih yours truly and the Miss singing along to Caiifornia Dreaming And by the way I don't think I've done another breakfast gig other than the Today Show since then...