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 rhinestone he belted out after song as he drank from a brown paper bag And the songs he sang of and pain, so pure perfect of human imperfections, it near 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 Cincinnati on the TV and a to the left of the great Hank Williams' head As a busty blonde waitress poured him a double shot of 'whatever you got' and laughingly said "I thought you dead" The pool balls cracked as he tilted his head and told her how he had a big star but now country music was full of freaks He sat there, in the TV streaked his cheeks
When I was sixteen years old I went from Houston to Abilene with a spunky stunningly woman 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 Williams and we sang in two-part harmony "Hey good lookin', about cookin' Something up me"
Back at the bar they were last call so I gave the barmaid a credit to pay up my tab The TV was off and the stage was dark and the great Hank Williams was gone so I asked her to 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 Into the night, out of In a VW Bug