Then there was the I saw the great Hank Williams on the stage in Philadelphia, and he was all dressed up in drag From his rose red lips to his hips he belted out song after song as he drank a brown paper bag And the songs he sang of and pain, so perfect reflections of human imperfections, it damn near me up But the rest of the show, was kind of And someone woke me up
Later on the were silently beating the living crap out of Cincinnati on the TV and a to the left of the great Hank Williams' head As a busty suicide blonde waitress poured him a double of 'whatever you got' and laughingly "I thought you were dead" The pool balls cracked as he tilted his head and told her how he had been a big star but now country music was of freaks He sat there, in the TV Mascara his cheeks
When I was only sixteen years old I went from Houston to with a spunky stunningly handsome in a Volkswagen Bug She was grown some kids all her own, a divorcee, and I was a man in love We had one 8-track tape but it was of the late great Hank Williams and we sang in two-part "Hey lookin', how's about cookin' 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 stage was and the great Hank Williams was 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