Then there was the I saw the Hank Williams singing on the stage in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and he was all up in drag From his rose red lips to his rhinestone he belted out song after song as he drank from a paper bag And the he sang of love and pain, so perfect reflections of human imperfections, it near choked me up But the rest of the show, was kind of And then someone me up
on the Astros were silently beating the living crap out of Cincinnati on the TV and a little to the of the great Hank Williams' head As a busty suicide waitress poured him a double shot of 'whatever you got' and said "I thought you were dead" The balls cracked as he tilted his head back and told her how he had been a big star but now country music was full of He sat there, in the TV Mascara his cheeks
When I was only sixteen old I went from Houston to Abilene 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 only one 8-track but it was of the late great Hank and we sang in two-part harmony "Hey good lookin', about cookin' up with me"
Back at the bar they were last 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