Then was the time I saw the great Hank singing on the stage in Philadelphia, and he was all dressed up in drag From his rose red to his rhinestone hips he belted out song after song as he drank from a brown bag And the songs he of love and pain, so pure perfect 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 Astros were silently beating the crap out of Cincinnati on the TV and a little to the left of the great Hank head As a busty suicide waitress poured him a double shot of 'whatever you got' and laughingly "I thought you were dead" The pool balls as he tilted his head back and told her how he had been a big star but now country was full of freaks He sat there, in the TV Mascara his cheeks
I was only sixteen years old I went from Houston to Abilene with a spunky handsome woman in a Volkswagen Bug She was with 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 Williams and we sang in two-part "Hey good lookin', how's about Something up me"
Back at the bar they calling last call so I gave the a credit card to pay up my tab The TV was turned off and the stage was and the great Hank Williams was gone so I her to call me a cab She said if you like I can 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