Singin' the Blues or any other durn thing ya want.

[Texas Lawdog]

AH!  Joan Biaz!  Did I miss an anti-WAR protest?    Karen Black and Harry Dean Stanton, now that's a PAIR to draw to.

[Leo Tanner]

Chris did a movie about a desert lawman who finds evidence regarding the assasination of JFK burried in the middle of nowhere.  I believe it's called "Flash Point".  In my reccolection it wasn't bad.

Nuther one by Hoyt, he also let some other guys sing it.



Well I never been to Spain
But I kinda like the music
Say the ladies are insane there
And they sure know how to use it
They don't abuse it
Never gonna lose it
I can't refuse it

Well I never been to England
But I kinda like the Beatles
Well, I headed for Las Vegas
Only made it out to Needles
Can you feel it
must be real it feels so good
Oh, feels so good

Well I never been to Heaven
But I been to Oklahoma
Well they tell me I was born there
But I really don't remember
In Oklahoma, not Arizona
What does it matter
What does it matter

Whoa, I never been to Spain
But I kinda like the music
Say the ladies are insane there
And they sure know how to use it
They don't abuse it
Never gonna lose it
I can't refuse it

Well I never been to Heaven
But I been to Oklahoma
Well they tell me I was born there
But I really don't remember
In Oklahoma, not Arizona
What does it matter
What does it matter

I always associated that one with Three Dog Night.  Did a pretty good job fer a bunch a hippies

[Texas Lawdog]

Oklahoma! My second Home and the land of my Cherokee ancestors.

[Delmonico]

Leo, most of what Stepenwolf and Three Dog Night did was by Hoyt Axton.

Saw him on a TV show one time, might have been Ralph Emory, think it was, was talking 'bout Hoyt's Mama bein' a song writer also, Mae Boren Axton, co-writer of HeartBreak Hotel and lots of other songs.  "Bout then the old lady rode a big Harley up on stage.

Okie boy, related to the Boren's down in west Texas.

Some he wrote that others made famous.


"Greenback Dollar" covered by The Kingston Trio
"The Pusher," covered by Steppenwolf on their debut album in 1968
"No-No Song," which became a #3 hit for Ringo Starr in March 1975
"Never Been To Spain", covered by Three Dog Night, Waylon Jennings, and Elvis Presley
"Joy to the World", the Three Dog Night hit from April 1971 which held US #1 for six weeks
"Snowblind Friend" (1971), covered by Steppenwolf
"Lightning Bar Blues" (1973) covered by Brownsville Station (also a big hit for the Finnish band Hanoi Rocks in the '80s)
"Sweet Misery" (1974) covered by John Denver

[Trinity]

"Heaven's Gate"

Yep, that one was a bit long.  I enjoyed it, but kept dosin' off.  If I recall correctly, I hated the ending though.

[Texas Lawdog]

The Cat was cool, and he never said a mumblin' word.

[Scattered Thumbs]

ST sneaks in, sees no one around and leaves a song he heard on his way to work today.

Well, I left Kentucky back in '49
An' went to Detroit workin' on a 'sembly line
The first year they had me puttin' wheels on cadillacs

Every day I'd watch them beauties roll by
And sometimes I'd hang my head and cry
'Cause I always wanted me one that was long and black.

One day I devised myself a plan
That should be the envy of most any man
I'd sneak it out of there in a lunchbox in my hand
Now gettin' caught meant gettin' fired
But I figured I'd have it all by the time I retired
I'd have me a car worth at least a hundred grand.

I'd get it one piece at a time
And it wouldn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style
I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is a round.

So the very next day when I punched in
With my big lunchbox and with help from my friends
I left that day with a lunch box full of gears
Now, I never considered myself a thief
GM wouldn't miss just one little piece
Especially if I strung it out over several years.

The first day I got me a fuel pump
And the next day I got me an engine and a trunk
Then I got me a transmission and all of the chrome
The little things I could get in my big lunchbox
Like nuts, an' bolts, and all four shocks
But the big stuff we snuck out in my buddy's mobile home.

Now, up to now my plan went all right
'Til we tried to put it all together one night
And that's when we noticed that something was definitely wrong.

The transmission was a '53
And the motor turned out to be a '73
And when we tried to put in the bolts all the holes were gone.

So we drilled it out so that it would fit
And with a little bit of help with an A-daptor kit
We had that engine runnin' just like a song
Now the headlight' was another sight
We had two on the left and one on the right
But when we pulled out the switch all three of 'em come on.

The back end looked kinda funny too
But we put it together and when we got thru
Well, that's when we noticed that we only had one tail-fin
About that time my wife walked out
And I could see in her eyes that she had her doubts
But she opened the door and said "Honey, take me for a spin."

So we drove up town just to get the tags
And I headed her right on down main drag
I could hear everybody laughin' for blocks around
But up there at the court house they didn't laugh
'Cause to type it up it took the whole staff
And when they got through the title weighed sixty pounds.

I got it one piece at a time
And it didn't cost me a dime
You'll know it's me when I come through your town
I'm gonna ride around in style
I'm gonna drive everybody wild
'Cause I'll have the only one there is around.

Ugh! Yow, RED RYDER
This is the COTTON MOUTH
In the PSYCHO-BILLY CADILLAC Come on

Huh, This is the COTTON MOUTH
And negatory on the cost of this mow-chine there RED RYDER
You might say I went right up to the factory
And picked it up, it's cheaper that way
Ugh!, what model is it?



ST sneaks out

[Texas Lawdog]

I love ya for your Pink Cadillac!

[litl rooster]

Till the cows come home at Cadillac Ranch

[Silver Creek Slim]

Great song, ST.

Slim

[Texas Lawdog]

There parkin' cars in the ol' pea patch.  Till the cows home at Cadillac Ranch.

[Scattered Thumbs]

What can I say?

It ain't the years, It's the miles.

[Texas Lawdog]

Sorta like my Sheriiff's unit,  fairly new but lots O miles!

[Leo Tanner]

Here's one from another guy who was nice enough ta let a couple other artists make some dough off his stuff.

She caught the Katy, and left me a mule to ride
She caught the Katy, and left me a mule to ride
My baby caught the Katy, left me a mule to ride
The train polled out, and I swung on behind
I'm crazy 'bout her, that hardheaded woman of mine

Man my baby's long, great god she's mighty she's tall
you know my baby's long, great god she's mighty my baby she's tall
Well my baby she's long, my baby she's tall
she sleeps wiht her head in the kitchen and her big feet out in the hall
And I'm still crazy 'bout her, that hardheaded woman of mine

Well I love my baby, she's so fine
I wish she'd come and see me some time
If you don´t believe I love her,
Look what a hole I'm in
If you don't believe I'm sinking,
Look what a shape I'm in

She caught the Katy, and left me a mule to ride
She caught the Katy, and left me a mule to ride
Well my baby caught the Katy, left me a mule to ride
The train polled out, and I swung on behind
I'm crazy 'bout her, that hardheaded woman-
hardheaded woman of mine

[Delmonico]

Here's one from another guy who was nice enough ta let a couple other artists make some dough off his stuff.

She caught the Katy, and left me a mule to ride
She caught the Katy, and left me a mule to ride
My baby caught the Katy, left me a mule to ride
The train polled out, and I swung on behind
I'm crazy 'bout her, that hardheaded woman of mine

Man my baby's long, great god she's mighty she's tall
you know my baby's long, great god she's mighty my baby she's tall
Well my baby she's long, my baby she's tall
she sleeps wiht her head in the kitchen and her big feet out in the hall
And I'm still crazy 'bout her, that hardheaded woman of mine

Well I love my baby, she's so fine
I wish she'd come and see me some time
If you don´t believe I love her,
Look what a hole I'm in
If you don't believe I'm sinking,
Look what a shape I'm in

She caught the Katy, and left me a mule to ride
She caught the Katy, and left me a mule to ride
Well my baby caught the Katy, left me a mule to ride
The train polled out, and I swung on behind
I'm crazy 'bout her, that hardheaded woman-
hardheaded woman of mine

But do you know what the Katy was?

[Tensleep]

M-K-T

Missouri Kansas Texas

[Delmonico]

M-K-T

Missouri Kansas Texas

I figured you knew what it was.

Ever heard of The Jerk Water Line?

[Leo Tanner]

But do you know what the Katy was?

Sleep beat me to it  Do you know who's song that orignaly was afore Taj recorded it?

[Tensleep]

I figured you knew what it was.

Ever heard of The Jerk Water Line?

Never heard of "The Jerk Water Line" but there were "Jerk water" towns and stops on every line that ran under steam because the water always ran out before the fuel.

[Leo Tanner]

Ever heard of The Jerk Water Line?

Can't say I have   but Sleeps explination of "jerk water town" was interesting, never knew where that came from.