Songs:One By One (135389)
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I met Richard Goerke in a New York City bar, and he explained to me with very little patience that he loved Johnny Cash more than I do. I argued at first, then shrunk back down when he got up in arms about this. I asked Richard when it was that he had learned to love Johnny Cash, and he told me that he learned to love Johnny Cash when he was in prison. I asked why he was in prison, and he said it was because “they” said he had done this terrible thing. I asked why “they” had said that, and he said, “Because I did it, damn it!” I was glad I’d shrunk down a while back. We talked for hours, and the best part of the story wasn’t what he did but why he did it. Or maybe that’s the worst part of the story. For sure, though, it’s part of the story. Thanks to Dave Hixx, the world’s greatest songwriting tour manager (or tour managing songwriter), for help in getting all this down the way it may have happened.
Lyrics
(Peter Cooper/Dave Hixx) Well Known Music/SESAC and Dickey Dice Publishing/BMI/admin. by BUG Music I ain’t no honky-tonk hero But I’m honky tonkin’ all the same Been coming here for years, double Jack rocks Don’t you act like you don’t know my name You know my name Larry, you know my name And I’m tired of all your bullshit Yeah, you heard me right If you’re gonna throw me out again It ain’t gonna be without a fight I ain’t afraid to fight you I think I’d do alright And the jukebox sucks And the girls dress like they’re working for some pimp I ain’t no VIP but I ain’t no circus chimp That’s how you treat me, Larry Like a circus chimp Let me tell you something Me and Hamp had the run of this place Me and Hamp and Ashley Fly Now they’re gone without a trace It’s like they were never here It’s just me left in this place And my wife is dead And my oldest boy don’t talk to me at all And you never knew Junior He got shot down in the gulf Friendly fire, Larry Friendly fire The jukebox, man, it just bangs and pounds Turn it down, turn it down a lot I ain’t one of your sweet young things But I ain’t no afterthought That’s how you treat me, Larry Like an afterthought And hey, hey... if we’re all God’s invention And not the other way around I’d like to ask Him About the way it all goes down I’d want an answer For how it goes down I’d say, “Did you put me here to love these people A little more every day? Teach me how to love them So you could take them all away? One by one. One by one.” Come back here, man I’m dry, you can see I’m dry What? No. And I won’t take a cab Hey, look me in the eye And mark my words I’ll leave But I’m gonna go out to my car I’m gonna get in my car And I’m gonna drive it through the window of your bar And there’s gonna be screams and glass And you’re gonna have to tear up some tabs And then I’m gonna walk right back And pour myself a double Jack And when the cops come They’re probably gonna ask you for my name You know my name Don’t you, Larry? You know my name
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 | Solo vocalist 10,489 items |
 | Steel guitar 204 items |
 | Country 867 items |
 | Slow 1,403 items |
 | Drinking 46 items |
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