Got Them Cosmic Silver Blues Again, Mama
Coal Black and Silver Blue
went walking after midnight
Coal say,' Blue, baby,
Things they just ain't right.
We should be Queens
We should have limosines
We should own the machines
Why for all these clownshoes
be fuckin with dynamite?
We could blow this town open
our powder's so dry
but we can't get a light
never mind a piece of the pie.'
Blue say, 'Girl I so hear what you say.'
an she picked up her dobro and began to play:
Silver Blue's Love Song for Troubled Girls
Baby don' go
Don' go again please.
It makes me cry, and it makes me wheeze,
Makes me sing the blues when
I'm really mad as hell.
Baby please don' go, and I'll never tell.
Baby come back
Baby come back please.
I'll buy you a new hat and a dipped Tastee Freeze.
I'll dress you in red and
undress you in black.
I'll sing you that tune if you'll only come back
Baby go 'way,
Go away from me please.
Don't want your true lies, don't want your disease.
Your engine blew out,
you took my last dime
Baby go way and stay gone this time.
November 2011
With apologies to the immortal Coal Black
"I'll dress you in red and
ReplyDeleteundress you in black." - those two lines just said it all, hedgewitch!
Ha, I so enjoyed this! Read it with a great big smile.
ReplyDeleteYour tags are illuminatingly brilliant. Thank god for the blues, and thems who sings 'em. Black and blue turns into sort of silver in your vivid lines.
ReplyDeleteMay your new year have more silver than blues!
I love it.
ReplyDeleteblue honey, you took the words right outta my mouth!
ReplyDeleteBitchin', babe. See you out on lonesome Highway 99. I'm bringin the Squirrel Shooters, even though that bass player gets on my nerves with his Copenhagen.
ReplyDelete~Silver Blue
yep i knew she'd love that...hot bit of story telling there hedge...bet they two could set the town afire...smiles...
ReplyDeletei escaped....barely. smiles.
Nice. I'd like to hear you read this.
ReplyDeleteJo Ann played with Spade Cooley AND Ole Rasmusson? Hot Damn!
ReplyDeleteThe girl got around, G. The girl got around.
ReplyDeleteI would really like a dipped tastee-freeze.
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