Mother Blues

Lyrics

[Intro] My name is Jon Dee Graham And I can assure you, aw I have been to Birmingham [Verse 1] There was a night club in Dallas Called Mother Blues It's where Lightning Hopkins played Freddy King payed some dues The dealers and gamblers and young white hipsters They all made the scene The girl at the door who checked ID's Just 16 This was not a place for law biding citizens Jackie Jones he had him a habit Just couldn't stop Said give me 500 Dollars And I'll sell you my Les Paul Gold Top I drove my daddy's car down to Ross Avenue And there I sold it I guess I should have told him He alluded to the police someone stole it It was just the first of many bad decisions I was to make over the next 20 years Oh, but I had me a guitar [Verse 2] Everybody knows That the real nightlife Begins after the clubs close What they call after hours (Just like the sound of "after hours") It's 2 a.m. and everybody's gone But the band, the dealers and ol' Jack Jones And then the girls from the landing strip club come over After they put their clothes back on So I'm at Ma Blues and I'm sitting on an amp Playing "Twist and Shout" And this tall drink of water walks in Like she might have to shoot her way out She comes up to me and she says "You know anything good on that guitar?" I didn't say nothing, I just kept on playing She said, "Have you ever heard this song Called 'Polk Salad Annie'?" I just kept playing She said, "Every time I hear that song My insides feel like warm butter And I just wanna take off all my clothes And dance around in my underwear" And I said, "Down in Louisiana Where the alligator grow so mean" That's all I knew of it but apparently that was enough [Verse 3] 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 Well, mostly lust But a mutual attraction So there I was boys at 21 years old, I had it all A fine stripper girlfriend and a Gold Top Les Paul Aw, the future looked promising Aw, but there were dark clouds on the horizon See, turned out... [Verse 4] She was a beautiful girl But she liked to drink Tequila and that ain't all I come home 4 or 5 times To find she had pawned my Les Paul We broke up and she went to Hollywood And married an actor She got a job dancing on the Hudson Brothers TV show And modern lipstick for ol' Max Factor I got over her, I'm glad she done alright No really, I'm glad she done alright [Verse 5] Well now me, I never busted through the gates Into the big time as a rock and roll star 40 years I just carried around That same 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 See, that was Ray and Judy They went on and had a boy, named Lucas I believe Lucas inherited the Les Paul Playing alongside Ray Aw, our old friend George Reiff Rick Richards, aw man it was beyond belief [Outro] Now Ray, he's just grateful to have a job Writing songs, telling lies Remember Ray, I have been to Birmingham