lp discography - covers & lyrics

We were in New York City, Jack Clement, Jan Howard, June and I, and since we were going to the Lone Star Cafe, where we didn't stay long, we took a cab, instead of the bus.
Jack leaned over to the cab driver and said, "The Lord don't know how long your hair is."
The driver said, "What??!!"
Jack said, "He just knows how many you got."
Then old Jack started singing "Gone Girl" to the cab driver, and we all joined in.
We didn't pay him when we got to the Lone Star 'cause we knew we're not staying long and we just had him wait.
We had a table somewhere in the back of the room where they sat us with another couple who had ordered fried potatoes. Jack had some of their fried potatoes and told the girl that she was making a mistake going with that guy. Then we left.
"You must believe in magic," said Jack to the cab driver.
"I'll never forget this night as long as I live," said the driver.
Now ole Jack sang "Gone Girl" out the window to his fellow Americans in New York City. Nobody applauded, but everyone was interested.
Back in the room we sat up singing. Jack taught me "No Expectations" and Jan sang along, 'cause she had sung the song before.
I sang, "It'll Be Her," and Jack said, "You sing it good but you got a weird way of phrasing."
I sang, "I Will Rock And Roll With You" and Jack said, "That's a hit."
Then Jack sang, "A Bar With No Beer," that Benny Barnes used to sing. He sang it with a weird accent.
June went to bed and went to sleep.
Jack sang "When I Dream." Then he and Jan and I sang "No Expectations" again.
Jan slipped out and went to her room.
I said, "Will you play rhythm for me next week when I record all these songs?"
"Sure," said Jack. "Where's June?"
"She went to bed," I said.
"Sing something fast," said Jack.
I sang my song, "It Comes And Goes."
Jack played rhythm. "That ain't fast," he said.
"Oh," I said, "I thought you meant sing something quick."
"Naw," he said, "I meant sing something fast."
"Don't you like 'It Comes And Goes'?" I asked.
"Yeah, but it ain't fast," he said.
So we sang "No Expectations" again, real fast.
"How did Mick Jagger and Keith Richards write a song like that?" I asked.
"They watch the Carl Tipton show," said Jack.
"They listen to the Grand Ole Opry," said Jack.
"Naw they don't," I said.
"Where's Jan?" asked Jack.
"She went to her room," I said.
"How come?" asked Jack.
"It's two a.m. and she got sleepy," I said.
"I'm going to bed, too," said Jack. "I'll bring my old Gibson to the session next week when you record 'Gone Girl'."
"And 'I Will Rock And Roll With You'," I said.
"And 'No Expectations'," said Jack.
"Is that the Gibson guitar you played on 'Big River' in 1957?" I asked.
"The same one," he said, and he was gone.
But he was at the session "next week" playing rhythm for me. And it felt good'cause we had rehearsed.

- JRC, 1978 -

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