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