My Belt . Crockett & Nashville + a track below. Hi Hill Country Rain.
I have always loved the ordinary things, finding beauty in them. Things like string, safety pins and a belt to keep your jeans and skirts from falling down.
I lived in this Shack on the River and over the railway tracks in The Bay area Crockett, California. (Sugar Town) C And H Pure Cane Sugar. Drinks in Club Tac slipping down the slope, over the tracks, watch for the trains!
Kenny Buttery Drums
Billy McClyn.
V1
They hung Billy McClyn on the line
Hung him out to dry.
Billy with a grin
Laughing at the stars.
Howling when the moon was high.
Clinging on to the edge of the sun.
Just out of reach of the fire.
They hung him on the line, hung him out to dry.
Hung him on the old high wire.
Chorus
Billy with a gun. Billy on the run.
Billy was a friend of mine. He was a friend of mine.
V2
Billy hung with Chapters of Angels.
He hung with beats in the bay
Jack Daniels took him through the night. & a six pack of Bud for the day.
Steering his old Chevy with one hand.
Rolling skinny reefers with the other.
Wearing black T, blue jeans, bandana.
Hey…. Cowboy boots and a smile.?
Chorus
Billy with a gun, Billy on the run.
Billy was a friend of mine. He was a friend of mine.
V3
He knew all of the hell holes.
Mad bad guys were his friends.
Each day was a miracle of odds against, fighting the expected ends.
His voice was like a chainsaw.
In The Redwoods on the coast road.
His face was old before his time.?
He’s gone, but I can see him grinning ?
And hanging out to dry?
Billy with a gun, Billy on the run
Billy was a friend of mine. Was a friend of mine
V4
He and ma took the boy to a movie
A kids cartoon, my hat
Sex and drugs and rock and roll
They were digging Fritz the Cat.
Mama cooking speed for dollars In a trailer park near Fresno.
Pa was gone before Billy was born.
An they hung young billy on the line
You’re not doing time you’re doing life my son.
Oh..
Billy on the run
Billy with a gun.
Billy was a friend of mine.
Was friend of mine.
V6
Billy said he would come to London
‘We’ll tie one on’ he said
‘We’ll eat steak and fries at The Dorchester.
‘Take tea with the rich and the dead.’
He said.
‘Drink Martinis at The Ritz,’ he said,
‘Drink shots in the Savoy..
We’ll show those fancy dandy boys
How Billy ain’t no boy, ….’
.. Inst. Billy… ?
V7
‘Lets take a stroll down the Mall,’
he said
‘Say howdy to the Queen .
Ride a Roller down to Brighton cock a finger for our dreams.’
But Billy took the fast road. Overtook me on the curve.
Billy died at 29
Gone out to find the sun?
Spinning out before his time.
Billy on the run
Billy with a gun
Billy was a friend of mine.
V5
He didn’t get to London
He didn’t see the Queen
Didn’t wear a white Tuxedo In a casino in park lane.
Billy on the run, Billy with a gun
Billy with a gun, Billy on the run
Tommy Codbill Bass
Rehearsing in Nashville.
Love the book Grimes…reading it a second time …