When I was a young man about 21 years old yâall
All I wanted was a stripper girlfriend and a Gold Top Les Paul
Be careful of the things you wish for, you might get em
There was a night club in Dallas, called Mother Blues
Itâs where Lightning Hopkins played and Freddy King even payed some dues
All the dealers, and gamblers and young white hipsters
They all made the scene
The girl at the door who checked IDâs was just 16
Aw, it was not a place for law biding citizens
Jackie Jones he had em a habit, he just couldnât stop
Said give me 500 dollars and Iâll sell you my Les Paul God Top
I drove my daddyâs car down to Ross Avenue and I sold it
I guess I should have told him
He eluded to the police someone stole it
It was just the first of many bad decisions I was to make for the next 20 years
Oh but I had me a guitar
Everybody knows that the real nightlife begins after the clubs close
What they call after hours
Itâs 2 am and everybodyâs gone but the band, the dealers and Jack Jones
And then the girls from the landing strip club come over
After they put their clothes back on
So Iâm at Ma Blues and Iâm sitting on an amp, Iâm playing Twist and Shout
And this tall drink of water walks in like she might have to shoot her way out
She come up to me and she said âYou know anything good on that guitar?â
I didnât say nothing, I just kept on playing
She said âHave you ever heard this song called Polk Salad Annie?â
I just kept playing
She said âEvery time I hear that song my insides feel like warm butter and I just wanna
take off my clothes and dance around in my underwearâ
I said âDown in Louisiana, where the alligator grow so meanâ
Thatâs all I knew of it and it was enough
So we hit it off me and this dancer
We hit it off like a metaphor
Like a metaphor for a hydrogen bomb
We was enriched uranium, super critical mass, we was a chain reaction
It was love and lust, aw mostly lust but a mutual attraction
So there I was boys at 21 years old, I had it all
I had a fine stripper girlfriend and a Gold Top Les Paul
Aw, the future, it looked promising
Oh but there were dark clouds on the horizon
She was a beautiful girl but she liked to drink Tequila and that ainât all
I come home 4 or 5 times and she pawned my Les Paul
We broke up and she went to Hollywood, she married an actor
She got a job dancing on the Hudson Brothers T.V. show
And modern lipstick from Max Factor
I got over her, Iâm glad she done alright, Iâm glad she done alright
Oh ,yes I am
Well now me, I never busted through the gates into the big time
as a rock and roll star
For 40 years I just carried around an old Gold Top guitar
But love and fate are mysterious things in this funky old world
It was 20 years ago I ended up marrying that Mother Blues door girl
We had us a boy, heâs 18 years old now. Heâs playing guitar
He ended up with that Les Paul Gold Top, yes he did
Now I donât know if heâs gonna hang his life on it or not,
But Iâm very grateful for the time I get to share the stage with him
Iâm grateful for the time I get to play with musicians like
George Reiff and Rick Richards
Iâm grateful that I get to write these old songs and travel around the world and play them for people
And they come out and hear me play
And the days that I keep my gratitude higher than my expectations
Well, I have really good days
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