Me and my buddy got us a wild And figured we to go somewhere So we up in my ragtop Chevrolet We had a little bit of money and a lot of show And with Junior blaring on the radio We got a full of gas and we was on our way
We figured go down to New Orleans We barrelling' down old 17 When a man with a red light was on our tail He said, "You were 60 in a 45 But I'm gonna let you go this But if I catch you again, I'm slap you in the county jail"
We said, "Thank you sir, you sure been And you ain't have to tell us twice" And we were Southbound and down with the wind in our faces We kept on and pretty soon The was cooking out a haggard tune And we were pulling into Houston and checking out all the
I was dry and I said, "I think We to stop and get ourselves a drink" Old Jim said, "Yeah we got time to kill" We kept on rolling and I seen this We pulled the parking lot Of this called, 'The Cloud Nine Bar and Grill'
We through the door and the place was jammed The lights were low, had a punk rock band And some orange haired feller about suicide I said, "Jim, ain't our kind of place He said, "Well, just have one round anyway" So against my better judgment we walked on
up to the bar and we sat down This feller up and said, "I'll buy this round" And he sat down on the barstool to Jim He looked like a girl but he like a guy He had lipstick on and in his eyes And everybody in that place just about like him
I said, "Jim, this ain't our of bar Let's go on out and get back in the car 'Cause there's gonna be trouble, ain't no in taking a chance" We was getting up, getting to leave When grabbed old Jim by the sleeve And this looking girl, she was asking my buddy to dance
I said, "Jim, don't do it, something missing There's fellers dancing and fellers There's a feller in high heeled shoes panty hose" He said, "Partner, I just can't turn down You just go there and have one more round I'll dance with the lady and we'll get on the road"
So he walked away and left me But this funny feller kept coming on And he was making me mad some of the things he said Then he put his hand on my I said, "If you get your paw off me I'm locate your nose around the other side of your head"
He said, "I love it when you get that fire in eye I said, "Well, try this on for size" And I on him and he went out like a light in that place must have been his friend They all for me, I said, "This is the end" But I come from, we don't give up without a fight
They were screaming and yelling and scratching and I was and hitting and kicking and pawing I was holding my own, I've been in a scrap or two Old Jim come running up out of the And that gal he was with, running up too And proceeded to beat on me a high heel shoe
I grabbed her by the hair it came off in my And that beautiful girl was a beautiful man And old Jim just got sick there on the floor He dropped that dude like a from a gun Smeared his lipstick, his makeup run And me and old Jim started fighting our way to the
Man, we lit out of in that Chevrolet I put in on the floor and it that way We was going' the highway doing about a hundred and ten We headed for home and we was getting nearer a red light came on the rear view mirror And that same blame cop was pulling us over
Now I'm sitting' here in county jail I had to call my Daddy to go our But I me a lesson that I never will forget again I've done up drinking', I've give up bars And around the country in souped up cars I'm back where the women are women and the men are men