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